Examples

Worked examples accompanying the tutorials.

The scripts/ directory of the source repository is split into:

scripts/tutorials/ — short, focused examples that exercise the front-end API one feature at a time.
scripts/dev_tests/ — longer feature-regression scripts kept around for development. These are not pytest tests; the proper pytest suite lives in tests/, and the formal evaluation suite for chapter 4 of the underlying thesis lives in thesis/appendix/A/ with its own run_all.py runner.

Each script is intended to be runnable from the repository root with the compas-ifc conda environment.

Tutorials

Script	What it shows
`scripts/tutorials/0.1_overview.py`	Quickstart: open a model and print its hierarchy.
`scripts/tutorials/1.1_query_entities.py`	Filter elements by IFC type and by name.
`scripts/tutorials/1.2_traverse_hierarchy.py`	Walk a multi-storey project tree.
`scripts/tutorials/2.1_project_info.py`	Project metadata, units, and contexts.
`scripts/tutorials/2.2_site_info.py`	Site coordinates, north direction, building list.
`scripts/tutorials/2.3_window_info.py`	Inspect a single window’s properties and host opening.
`scripts/tutorials/3.1_model_view.py`	Render a model in `compas_viewer`.
`scripts/tutorials/3.2_element_view.py`	Render only a sub-tree of elements.
`scripts/tutorials/4.1_edit_export.py`	Modify properties and write the result back.
`scripts/tutorials/4.2_create_new.py`	Build a model from scratch using the template factory.
`scripts/tutorials/5.1_export_from_rhino.py`	Draft Rhino-to-IFC export pipeline (run inside Rhino).
`scripts/tutorials/6.1_custom_extension.py`	Add Python-side helpers to IFC entities via `@extends`.
`scripts/tutorials/7.1_geometry_ops.py`	Volume and surface-area queries on a single element.

Feature-regression scripts

Script	What it shows
`scripts/dev_tests/8.1_brep_generate.py`	Generates 26 STEP fixtures for the B-Rep test corpus.
`scripts/dev_tests/9.1_building_model_test.py`	`BuildingInformationModel` smoke test.
`scripts/dev_tests/9.4_unified_properties.py`	Mix schema attributes and pset properties through `element.properties`.
`scripts/dev_tests/9.5_creation_test.py`	Programmatic creation of walls, slabs, beams.
`scripts/dev_tests/9.6_rectification_test.py`	Placement-chain rectification on import.
`scripts/dev_tests/9.7_extraction_test.py`	Granular subset extraction across multiple scenarios.
`scripts/dev_tests/9.8_graph_test.py`	Inspect the interaction graph.
`scripts/dev_tests/9.10_auto_connections_test.py`	`compute_connections` on a real model.
`scripts/dev_tests/9.11_collision_test.py` /	Collision detection and interactive viewer.
`scripts/dev_tests/9.12_collision_viewer.py`

The reproducible evaluation suite for chapter 4 of the thesis is in thesis/appendix/A/ and includes run_all.py, which executes every section and writes a consolidated report to thesis/appendix/A/outputs/A-summary.txt.