package FreeCAD depending on not existent Python package ifcopenshell

[Ri Zi]

 Thanks for Debian!

The Python package ifcopenshell is not existent in the Debian package repository’s.

The website: https://ifcopenshell.org states that the software is open source.

IfcOpenShell is used by FreeCAD for a long time.
Since version 1.0 FreeCAD (debian package: freecad) depends on ifcopenshell for its Arch BIM workbench as may be seen by lots of error messages in the Report view Panel as soon as one starts working with BIM.

https://wiki.freecad.org/Extra_python_modules#ifcOpenShell explains how to test for correct installation and links to installation instructions.

Please add ifcopenshell to the debian package repository. It is almost impossible to get it running with FreeCAD in a Python venv environment!

Thanks a-lot, Ric