IfcOpenShell
Parse and manipulate IFC building information models for construction/CAD.
Files, images and media PyPI LGPL-3.0-or-later
How IfcOpenShell is used
IfcOpenShell is a dependency in 0 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 144 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use NumPy (60.4%), pandas (46.5%), Shapely (25.0%).
IfcOpenShell popularity over time
Gid Score 56: downloads 55, use in agent projects 56, GitHub stars 29, downloads trend 100 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with IfcOpenShell
| NumPy | 60.4% of IfcOpenShell projects · 10.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| pandas | 46.5% of IfcOpenShell projects · 10.8× more than average |
| Shapely | 25.0% of IfcOpenShell projects · 141.1× more than average |
| Matplotlib | 23.6% of IfcOpenShell projects · 8.8× more than average |
| Streamlit | 22.2% of IfcOpenShell projects · 20.6× more than average |
| SciPy | 20.1% of IfcOpenShell projects · 11.1× more than average |
| Pillow | 19.4% of IfcOpenShell projects · 5.1× more than average |
| openpyxl | 16.7% of IfcOpenShell projects · 12.0× more than average |
From all 144 projects in our scan that use IfcOpenShell, including the dependency samples.
How IfcOpenShell is funded
Open Collective: IfcOpenShell
| Received, last 12 months | $25,572 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $23,671 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $24,725 |
| Raised since the start | $96,636 · $71,910 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $2,273 · $2,050 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -21% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 135 |
Top company backers all time, 16 companies in total
| Cyril Waechter BIM Insight | $10,700 since Nov 2022 |
|---|---|
| BIMvoice | $6,910 since Jul 2023 |
| PlaniBIM SA | $4,500 since Feb 2023 |
| OpeningDesign | $3,005 since Apr 2023 |
| Spectar | $950 since Jan 2021 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Dec 2020. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @aothms | 1 current sponsor |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work.
Ways to fund IfcOpenShell
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install ifcopenshell |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (143), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | brunopostle/homemaker-addon, jakob-beetz/ifcopenshell-notebooks, mac999/scan_to_bim_pipeline, OpenAEC-Foundation/building-py, mac999/BIM_LLM_code_agent |
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