Documentation

Intro

BCFier is an extendible and Open Source BCF client. Like IFC is the open standard for Building Information models, BCF is the open standard for Building Issues. BCFier is a set of plugins and standalone apps (modules) that handle BCF and integrate directly with BIM tools.

Currently BCFier is composed of the following modules:

  • Autodesk Revit addin
  • Standalone Windows Viewer

Ready to start developing BCFier? Keep reading!

If you are looking for a Guide on how to use the installed version of BCFier instedad, refer to the UserGuide

This project is a fork of the original BCFier project by Matteo Cominetti.

Local Development

For Revit and Navisworks, the best way to launch the plugin in development mode is to use the `AddinManager� extension.

To run the frontend part, you should run these commands then:

  • Revit electronize start /watch /args --revit-integration --app-correlation-id="3136262a-5f6b-41b0-ba89-6a8c4212b699"
  • Navisworks electronize start /watch /args --navisworks-integration --app-correlation-id="65ef2104-64ca-4390-bae3-3de4901a53dc"

Those ids are hardcoded when you're running a Debug build, and allow you to launch the app and the actual plugin independently of eachother.

Teams Webhooks

When configuring projects, you can set up a webhook to a Microsoft Teams channel. This will send notifications to the channel when new issues are created or updated. Webhooks must be created via Teams workflows. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the channel you want to receive notifications in and select the Workflows setting: Teams Workflow
  2. Create a new webhook: Teams Webhook
  3. Configure the webhook
  4. After creating the webhook, you can use its url in the project configuration

License

GNU General Public License v3 Extended This program uses the GNU General Public License v3, extended to support the use of BCFier as Plugin of the non-free main software Autodesk Revit. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLPluginsInNF.

Copyright (c) 2013-2024 Matteo Cominetti & Georg Dangl

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.