EPA's Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) is used throughout the world for planning, analysis, and design related to stormwater runoff, combined and sanitary sewers, and other drainage systems.
I am still having trouble navigating the community so I am not sure if this is the right place to put it, but a directory containing thermal properties of various building materials was published a few days ago. Could possibly be useful in BlenderBIM for energy analysis.
@d3ssy Topologic is already in the software directory. It is not an IFC viewer, so it doesn't have the capability to show property sets. However, properties from IFC property sets can be loaded into Topologic.
I see some great potential in our software directory - as a searchable database. I think we need to move to the next step and make a database we (and others) can present in different way. Listing by category, by file type, by workflow, by license ... all those things you can't really do in a wiki or any kind of static website. We could even make it look good!
Sadly the FSF Free Software Directory is just like our a wiki and suffers the same problems. But I have subscribed to their discussion list and will ask them what plans they have for the future.
So, anyone here got the interest and skills to make a start on this project ... ? I'm looking at you @SigmaDimensions creator of https://learn.osarch.org/
@duncan said:
I see some great potential in our software directory - as a searchable database. I think we need to move to the next step and make a database we (and others) can present in different way. Listing by category, by file type, by workflow, by license ... all those things you can't really do in a wiki or any kind of static website. We could even make it look good!
I'm looking at you @SigmaDimensions creator of https://learn.osarch.org/
Let's do it @duncan . I'm up for it. We can re-shapre learn.osarch with your vision - For now, all I've done is use the software directory, and link up educational videos from youtube to each software / youtube author.
I think we can do way better.
Noise-Planet is a site with scientific tools for environmental noise assessment. Some of the tools offered are declared as free and open source:
OnoMap
NoiseCapture GPL-3.0 License
NoiseModelling GPL-3.0 License
Community Maps https://noise-planet.org/index.html
I-Simpa is an open software dedicated to the modelling of sound propagation in 3D complex domains.
It is a perfect tool for experts (i.e. acousticians), for teachers and students, as well as for researchers, in their projects (room acoustics, urban acoustics, industrial spaces, acoustic courses...).
Why? Because it's silly with several groups listing the same software in different ways. If we collaborate on one directory with a standard structure anyone can use and work on the parts they need and we all get a better result.
Who want to join in this journey? @sigmadesigns I got you on board so that's one.
@bitacovir maybe I'm a bit silly, but I'd love it if I could see in peoples posts if a newly found project has been added to the directory (or even just the talk page). The last few projects you've named, are they added?
@bitacovir maybe I'm a bit silly, but I'd love it if I could see in peoples posts if a newly found project has been added to the directory (or even just the talk page). The last few projects you've named, are they added?
I updated the wiki. Always I just publish the findings first in this thread before update the wiki.
Carbo Life Calculator is the perfect tool to calculate the embodied carbon in a building with a single press of a button. Using data from EPD's or self-defined materials & values, the Carbo Life Calculator automatically interprets your Autodesk® Revit® model and presents you its embodied carbon.
Using this tool allows anybody to calculate the embodied carbon of a design while giving full freedom to the user to select materials, edit or expand the material database to report and optimize the embodied carbon. As a Revit plugin, you will also be able to create "heatmaps" from the calculation results, making it just a press of a few buttons to create some great 3D visualizations to show the embodied carbon. You can also export the embodied carbon values back as a parameter into the Revit elements and use in-Revit-schedules in ways of your liking. Or why not export the entire database to excel and create your own graphs and reports as you please. There are many ways the Carbo Life Calculator can be of use:
Carbo Life Calc is flexible, and can help assess your project in many ways:
It’s a full embodied carbon calculator;
Use it as a simple quantity snooping tool;
Keep it as a database for your embodied carbon values;
Optional by comparing various design options;
Use it as a tool to study in-depth what embodied carbon is;
Optimize materials to find low-carbon solutions, and present their impact;
Various export methods take your calculation and visualizations to a new level.
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New big player in open source game engine !
https://venturebeat.com/2021/07/06/amazons-lumberyard-becomes-an-open-source-3d-game-engine-with-support-from-20-companies/amp/
IFC Toolbox
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/ifc-toolbox/9n77phd2h471?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
https://bimmars.com/docs/source-code/
GPL-3.0 License
Storm Water Management Model (SWMM)
Open source and free but only for Windows.
https://www.epa.gov/water-research/storm-water-management-model-swmm
@Rob I've added some software pages to https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Category:SoftwareMissingInfoBox so anyone ready to help update the wiki with software pages is welcome to help go through adding infoboxes to the pages we (and adding new ones linked to the directory)
F3D, a fast and minimalist 3D viewer https://f3d-app.github.io/f3d/
Kitware licence https://github.com/f3d-app/f3d/blob/master/LICENSE
There are a lot open source 3D viewers. Not sure if they are very useful for AEC. https://listoffreeware.com/open-source-3d-model-viewer-software-windows/
I am still having trouble navigating the community so I am not sure if this is the right place to put it, but a directory containing thermal properties of various building materials was published a few days ago. Could possibly be useful in BlenderBIM for energy analysis.
Hi @thunderbolt_132 - yeah I spotted that a few days ago, thanks for mentioning it. I wasn't quite sure where to add it so I've put it here and will be pushing on social media for other similar resources
https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=AEC_Open_Data_directory
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/osarch-org_aec-open-data-directory-activity-6881345512616865792-8jhZ
@Cyril I think you mentioned a database before but we don't seem to have it anywhere on the wiki.
Yes, you are able to import materials from materialsdb.org using python-materialsdb. See dedicated OSArch thread.
@Cyril could you add that to https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=AEC_Open_Data_directory ?
gemini-viewer
WebGL BIM Viewer based on xeoKit-sdk, written with TypeScript.
Affero GPL V3 license
https://github.com/pattern-x/gemini-viewer
Does xeokit (or this xeokit based gemini-viewer) have the option to display properties or property sets? I
@thunderbolt_132 I think OpenProject uses Xeokit so I suspect it supports property sets.
What about Topologic?
@d3ssy Topologic is already in the software directory. It is not an IFC viewer, so it doesn't have the capability to show property sets. However, properties from IFC property sets can be loaded into Topologic.
I see some great potential in our software directory - as a searchable database. I think we need to move to the next step and make a database we (and others) can present in different way. Listing by category, by file type, by workflow, by license ... all those things you can't really do in a wiki or any kind of static website. We could even make it look good!
Sadly the FSF Free Software Directory is just like our a wiki and suffers the same problems. But I have subscribed to their discussion list and will ask them what plans they have for the future.
So, anyone here got the interest and skills to make a start on this project ... ? I'm looking at you @SigmaDimensions creator of https://learn.osarch.org/
Let's do it @duncan . I'm up for it. We can re-shapre learn.osarch with your vision - For now, all I've done is use the software directory, and link up educational videos from youtube to each software / youtube author.
I think we can do way better.
Noise-Planet is a site with scientific tools for environmental noise assessment. Some of the tools offered are declared as free and open source:
OnoMap
NoiseCapture GPL-3.0 License
NoiseModelling GPL-3.0 License
Community Maps
https://noise-planet.org/index.html
More acoustics: I-Simpa. GPL version 3 license.
https://i-simpa.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/
I've kept looking and learned two interesting things about directions our directory could go
Why? Because it's silly with several groups listing the same software in different ways. If we collaborate on one directory with a standard structure anyone can use and work on the parts they need and we all get a better result.
Who want to join in this journey? @sigmadesigns I got you on board so that's one.
@bitacovir maybe I'm a bit silly, but I'd love it if I could see in peoples posts if a newly found project has been added to the directory (or even just the talk page). The last few projects you've named, are they added?
I updated the wiki. Always I just publish the findings first in this thread before update the wiki.
Added some street simulation software:
A/B Streets a cool pedestrian/bike/car road intersection simulator. https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet It can be run in a browser http://play.abstreet.org/0.3.13/abstreet.html or on your desktop. Uses open street map for the data.
Also add 3Dstreet and Streetmix.
Vadere. Pedestrian and crowd simulation
http://www.vadere.org/
GNU Lesser General Public License
Agents.jl is a Julia framework for agent-based modeling (ABM) used on pedestrian simulation.
https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/Agents.jl
MIT "Expat" License
jCrowdSimulator
Another Crowd Simulation
https://github.com/FraunhoferIVI/jCrowdSimulator
LGPL-3.0 License
https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=CarboLifeCalc
Revit addin. Description from their website:
Added to Discussion page of the Directory more software that needs to be added properly: pythermalcomfort
https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Talk:AEC_Free_Software_directory
Could someone please add this? It's becoming very popular
https://makertales.gumroad.com/l/CADsketcher
Done...
https://www.cfdsupport.com/cae-open-source-software.html
https://github.com/hypar-io/elements
(added to talk page)
Added to the directory, Relay for Revit
https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Free_software_extensions_to_proprietary_software