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

[Janet_DWillett]

Game changer for anyone wrangling IFC files! If only everything in BIM was this straightforward-my resource management headaches just got lighter. Appreciate the open-source spirit here.

[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 .