text-based tree view of an IFC file using ifcopenshell (see https://github.com/IndustryFoundationClasses/Questions/issues/11 )

gistfile1.txt

from __future__ import print_function

import sys
sys.path.append('ifcopenshell2x3')
import ifcopenshell
f = ifcopenshell.open(sys.args[1])

ids = []
def visit(inst, indent=''):
    print(indent, inst)
    if inst.id not in ids:
        ids.append(inst.id)
        for child in f.traverse(inst, 1)[1:]: visit(child, indent+'  ')
    else:
        print(indent+'  ', '...')
for inst in f:
    visit(inst)