BCFier for Renga is an extendible and Open Source BCF client.
A “BCF report” or “BCF file” is a file containing one or more issues of a project. It is store on disk with the extension .bcf.
To create a new empty report just fire up BCFierForRenga and click on “New BCF”, then you can start adding issues.
BCFier allows you to have more than one BCF report open at the same time, and you can switch by clicking on the tabs. To open one or more BCF files click Open.
BCFier supports BCF files version 2.1.
To add a new Issue to a report, just click the “New Issue” button, a new empty Issue will be generated. You can now set a title and description and start adding Views and Comments.
A View is the combination of an image and a viewpoint (the 3D information of the current view as camera position and elements visibility/selection status). You can add multiple views in one issue.
When adding a new View from BCFier Standalone Viewer no viewpoint will be added in the view therefore it will not contain 3D information.
Please note that the visibility and selection of the components relies on their GUID (Global Unique ID), and will not be possible if this changes (or is lost) passing the model from a tool to another.
Comments can either be general issue comments or be attached to a specific view.
You can add your user name and the available statuses from the BCFier Settings.
Web urls will automatically render as clickable, while if you want to make a local or network absolute path clickable, just wrap it in square brackets [].
Examples:
[C:\Projects\Collaboration\MyProject.rnt]
BCFier for Renga is accessible via the Primary Panel.
These will let the user create BCF Issues for the current view in the model.
Installation of the plugin is done by copying the folder with the plugin to the %RengaInstallationFolder%/Plugins. Detailed instructions are here. BCFier for Windows does not need any installation.
.NET Framework 4.8, RengaProfessional/RengaStandard 7.4 or higher.
To uninstall the plugin simply remove it from Plugins folder. To manually remove a user settings file delete %localappdata%\BCFier\settings.config.