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BimCT Converter

The BimCT Converter Web Services API will convert a design file to the (*.bimct) file format. It will automatically assign unique model ids to the file and on completions it will provide download links for files and snapshots.

While you can use the conversion server as your bimct file storage server, you are advised to download the output files and store them on your local server using your own storage functionality. After you download the files you can delete them from the converter server using the appropriate API endpoint.

NOTE: To use the BimCT Converter Web Services API you will to have a client id. Contact Nomitech to get one.

You can visit the BimCT Converter REST API online reference guide, to get a reference for all available REST-API calls.

BimCT Converter API Endpoint Sequense​

To convert a design file you will first have to enqueue it for conversion using the Enqueue service. Please read carefully all the conversion properties that need to be passed to the service, accordingly.

After the file is uploaded to the server you can use the get status service to check if your file is uploaded using polling or you can also skip the polling task and wait for the callback url to be called from the conversion server as described on the conversion properties.

Up on file conversion completion you download the snapshot and the converted file to your local server, and delete any files left on the server using the clean up job service.

IFC Export API Endpoint Sequence (NEW 06/2024)​

You can use the above sequence to convert a supported BIM file to IFC with one difference. Instead of Enqueue call export-ifc

You can also provide a second file with custom properties to add to elements of the exported file. See here for more info

Client code generation​

To help you jumpstart your project, this api uses an OpenAPI Specification v3 (former known as Swagger) to create client code in many popular programming languages.

The specification can be found here OAS v3

For more information visit Swagger Codegen

Fully working Converter API HTML Examples:​

You can download a bundle of design files and then use them with the Converter API example pages: