- creator: CityGeometrix
- version: 1.0.2
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description 🔗
Ever tried to get rid of some (many?) unnecessary geometries from a complex building model while keeping it’s global aspect unchanged? Or maybe just want to get a version of a model, simple enough to be lightweight, but still nice and without disclosing too much details (interior or exterior)?
Then BIMShell is the mate you were looking for! Unlike the Outer Shell of SketchUp, it does not require your
BIMShell 1.0.2 includes the following features:
Footprint Shell (free): generates a shell that corresponds to the extruded footprint of the model (on the Z axis).
Voxel Shell: generates a watertight approximation of the models’ envelope using a voxel data structure. It gives control over the voxel resolution to be used to create the shell. Smaller resolutions are more precise but more expensive computationally. If the model has gaps larger than the chosen resolution, the process will likely generate faces at the interior of the model. It will nevertheless produce simpler models compared to the original ones in general.
Outer Shell Faces: generates a shell version of the model by copying the faces located at its exterior. It offers a control on the resolution of the optimized grid that is used to shoot rays on the model from its exterior. Similarly to Voxel Shell, if the interior/exterior spaces of the model are ill-defined (because of gaps, an open door or windows, etc.), the resulting envelope model is likely to include interior faces as well.