There is still some effort to be done in many areas, mainly to output better 2D drawings, and to ease the learning curve by providing better documentation and learning material. On the FreeCAD side, working on these two points will be my new year resolution.
I'm thinking on this one floor house that I might do fully in FreeCAD...
I have tried using that Sketches workflow on a two storey house but in that case it was a refurbishment. I have a good workflow in Sketchup for those, and I had to stick with it.
This one is a new house, I can follow up exactly that workflow we discussed last time and then learn along the way.
Mr. @yorik I am a great fan, I love FreeCAD and I think is already very complete, but please if possible update the MEP tools, I found Dodo WB awesome, but still need some tools to add profiles and connectors to use it for MEP.
Anyone has a general comparison of workflow between FreeCAD and BlenderBIM :) (I just had installed BlenderBIM at it very earlier development but not dived in since then)
Curious about what are the strength and weakness of each software and how things might be done with help from other.
@bitacovir thanks for the edits to the wiki on the FreeCAD page. However I went in and changed the info box to use the template I've been slowly implementing. Hope you like how it looks. Doing it that way makes it easier for us to find and maintain info boxes. I always copy the template from the inkscape page when I'm adding it to new pages since it's a good example.
Also, is this the correct license for FreeCAD LGPLv2-only @yorik ? https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob/master/LICENSE I ask because I've also seen references to GPLv2-or-later and GPLv2-only. If it's LGPL the that's a bit different from what I thought the project was.
Regarding comparisons, I don't think it's worth the effort unless the main developers do it. And I think they've got better things to do. However I would love to watch @yorik@theoryshaw@Jesusbill and whoever else go through how they use both FreeCAD and BBIM on real projects (I've already forgotten the name of the actual project)
@duncan said:
Also, is this the correct license for FreeCAD LGPLv2-only @yorik ? https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob/master/LICENSE I ask because I've also seen references to GPLv2-or-later and GPLv2-only. If it's LGPL the that's a bit different from what I thought the project was.
Indeed. As far as I know the "or, at your option, any later version" bit is part of the standard LGPL text, so one could consider that by default any LGPL (or GPL, I think it's the same) license are usable as a higher number (this means you can take FreeCAD and redistribute it as LGPLv3). I think to say GPL2-only you'd need to specifically add that restriction to your license text. I don't know why someone would do that, but indeed there has been a lot of flamewars over the GPL3 license (which I've heard is "incompatible" with the former...)
@duncan
IMHO
Might it be an idea to split this thread. Licensing is amongst other threads, covered in "FOSS licenses"
Also we have a wiki article, FLOSS
:confused:
For awesome news like this, if anybody wants to contribute 300 words to an OSArch news article, please do - we can publish it and help share successes in the community!
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Great progress!
This is about it nowadays:
I'm thinking on this one floor house that I might do fully in FreeCAD...
@JQL look forward to your model :D
And for those who may not be aware, there is a forum in FreeCAD website for discussion, help etc :
I have tried using that Sketches workflow on a two storey house but in that case it was a refurbishment. I have a good workflow in Sketchup for those, and I had to stick with it.
This one is a new house, I can follow up exactly that workflow we discussed last time and then learn along the way.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6754428380449443840
Mr. @yorik I am a great fan, I love FreeCAD and I think is already very complete, but please if possible update the MEP tools, I found Dodo WB awesome, but still need some tools to add profiles and connectors to use it for MEP.
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?p=465936#p465936
@yorik would it be possible to write a 300 word summary article to republish and advertise it on OSArch.org, just like https://osarch.org/2020/11/17/freecad-bim-development-news-update-for-october-2020/ ?
If you're busy perhaps @bruno_perdigao or I can write something :)
@Moult I'll do that
FreeCAD BIM development news - September 2021 - The big 2D upgrade
https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2021-020-freecad-september
Sorry, always forget to come post here.. Thanks @bitacovir !
What a great update! I think it's time to learn Freecad properly hahaha, the hatch tool was really that last needed item
Anyone has a general comparison of workflow between FreeCAD and BlenderBIM :) (I just had installed BlenderBIM at it very earlier development but not dived in since then)
Curious about what are the strength and weakness of each software and how things might be done with help from other.
Any idea ? Thanks :D
That's a hard question, but could make a good wiki article!
https://osarch.org page seems not updated.
Should the FreeCAD BIM development news post be updated there also ?
Looks like quite a few of us have experience with both, so why not try to collaborate on a wiki page. Could be to the advantage for both FC and BB
@bitacovir thanks for the edits to the wiki on the FreeCAD page. However I went in and changed the info box to use the template I've been slowly implementing. Hope you like how it looks. Doing it that way makes it easier for us to find and maintain info boxes. I always copy the template from the inkscape page when I'm adding it to new pages since it's a good example.
Also, is this the correct license for FreeCAD LGPLv2-only @yorik ? https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob/master/LICENSE I ask because I've also seen references to GPLv2-or-later and GPLv2-only. If it's LGPL the that's a bit different from what I thought the project was.
Regarding comparisons, I don't think it's worth the effort unless the main developers do it. And I think they've got better things to do. However I would love to watch @yorik @theoryshaw @Jesusbill and whoever else go through how they use both FreeCAD and BBIM on real projects (I've already forgotten the name of the actual project)
So that's a suggestion for a monthly meetup.
For the software is Lesser General Public Licence, version 2 or superior (LGPL2+)
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Licence
Indeed. As far as I know the "or, at your option, any later version" bit is part of the standard LGPL text, so one could consider that by default any LGPL (or GPL, I think it's the same) license are usable as a higher number (this means you can take FreeCAD and redistribute it as LGPLv3). I think to say GPL2-only you'd need to specifically add that restriction to your license text. I don't know why someone would do that, but indeed there has been a lot of flamewars over the GPL3 license (which I've heard is "incompatible" with the former...)
Linux itself is GPLv2 only, Linus removed the 'any later version' text when he started the project
@duncan
IMHO
Might it be an idea to split this thread. Licensing is amongst other threads, covered in "FOSS licenses"
Also we have a wiki article, FLOSS
:confused:
For awesome news like this, if anybody wants to contribute 300 words to an OSArch news article, please do - we can publish it and help share successes in the community!
Yeah I should have done that. Doing it right now!
@CadGiru I moved the FOSS license discussion in general to its own thread. https://community.osarch.org/discussion/770/foss-licenses
New FreeCAD BIM weekly update. Now FreeCAD BIM Workbench Project is supported by Open ToolChain Foundation.
NativeIFC Improvement !
thanks for helping me here guys ? always forget this thread...
i'll try to post weekly updates from now on, hopefully that helps me to remember
FreeCAD BIM weekly update 24.02.2023
https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2023-006-feeecad-weekly2
There is also some interesting stuff going on at https://github.com/yorikvanhavre/FreeCAD-NativeIFC/issues
weekly update! https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2023-010-freecad-weekly3