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Project information

The project's information is entered once, and every title block uses it: the client, the architect, the project number, the phase…

The page

Project → Project information (also in the File menu) (or "project" in the command palette) opens it in the main view, with its own tab. It has sections:

Section Fields (their key)
Project number (project_number), name (project_title), address, building, phase, status, end date
Client client, address, e-mail, phone
Architect architect, address, e-mail, phone
Engineer engineering office (engineer), author, address
Contractor contractor, address, e-mail, phone
Other fields of your own: type a name ("Project manager") and Add field; its key is made from it (project_manager)

A value is saved when you leave its field. Next to each field, its key in braces is what a title block writes to show the value: {client}, {project_number}.

In a .bimble model this is a change of the model (undo, history). For an IFC, it goes in the views file next to it; the IFC itself is not changed.

In title blocks

A plan template's title block writes the value of any key in braces. The default title block shows the project name and number, the client, and the sheet's revision, drawn and checked fields.

Where a key has several values, the most specific wins:

  1. a sheet's own fields (revision, drawn by…) and --field on the command line;
  2. the project information;
  3. the template's fields.

A known key with no value yet writes nothing; an unknown key stays as {key}, so a typo shows.

In IFC exports

bimble export-ifc writes the project name (project_title) and phase in IfcProject's LongName and Phase, the building in IfcBuilding's name, and every entry in a Bimble_ProjectInformation property set on IfcProject.

From the command line

bimble project model.bimble                                   # print it
bimble project model.bimble client="City of X" "Project number=P-001"
bimble project model.bimble client=                           # remove an entry