Open source developer Dion Moult will be teaching the fourth module of the online university course for Parametric Design with Visual Programming in BIM by the Zigurat Global Institute for Technology.

This program has been designed for engineers, BIM managers, architects virtually anyone within the AECO sector who is interested in automating workflows to increase their proficiency in visual and textual programming resources applied to BIM (Building Information Modeling).

Module 4 – Programming OpenBIM with Python

In this module, the student will learn about object-oriented data modeling and use Python language to analyze and edit files in the IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) standard, in addition to knowing the benefits and fundamentals of OpenBIM.

Python is an easy-to-learn language and follows the philosophy of Programming for all. It is one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. In the “Programming OpenBIM with Python” module, the student will have the opportunity to use BIM file visualization tools in the IFC standard, Jupyter notebook and the ifcopenshell package to analyze and generate reports on the models.