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CreaBIM works with Blender both ways: model freely in Blender and bring it in, or send the CreaBIM model to Blender for rendering.

  1. File › Import and link… and pick the .blend file.
  2. Its objects come in, with their Blender materials.

To have objects come in as real BIM elements:

  • put them in a collection named Walls, Slabs, Doors or Windows;
  • or give an object a creabim_kind property, or an ifc_class property such as IfcColumn;
  • or, in CreaBIM, select the object and use Assign as… in Properties (for example Assign as… › Slab). It gets slab handles, a thickness and a material, and stays linked.

With File › Reload linked files when saved ticked, saving in Blender updates CreaBIM within a second. Walls stay walls and slabs stay slabs.

To Blender: glTF

File › glTF (.glb) for Blender writes every element as a mesh with its CreaBIM id and materials. In Blender, use File › Import › glTF, or the CreaBIM Link add-on (in tools/blender-addon in the CreaBIM source), which also sends your Blender edits back to the same elements. See glTF.

Materials

Materials › Import materials… reads a .blend file's materials (the Principled BSDF's colour, roughness, metallic and alpha).