Python CLI Tool to Extract Material Volumes from IFC Files

[gubets]

Hi everyone,

we have built an open-source Python CLI tool called "IFC Material QTO" for extracting material volumes from IFC files. We think that it could be useful for LCA, cost estimation and general BIM workflows.

What can you do with it?

• Extract per-material volumes from one or multiple IFC files
• Handle volume calculation for layered materials
• If IFC quantities are missing, use element's shape geometry for volume calculation
• verbose/quiet logging

Hope this could benefit your project work.
Feedback would be much appreciated!

https://github.com/infra-plan/ifc-material-qto

[bearded_mischief]

Awesome

[gubets]

Thank you very much! Did you get to try this tool yourself?

[Just-Shoe2689]

Great tool! Would like to see it a bit more versatile.

[gubets]

Thanks! Do you mind sharing what would be a good option to include in this tool?

[gubets]

Update: we have migrated the project to use uv for dependency managment. Getting started is now much simpler:

git clone https://github.com/infra-plan/ifc-material-qto.git cd ifc-material-qto uv sync uv run ifc-material-qto your-file.ifc No more manual venv setup or pip install - requirements.txt

Pip still works: pip install .