This is a tutorial for FreeCAD BIM beginners. Creating a small garage building is demonstrated. Among the covered topics are:

I believe that's the way we should go with parametric IFC. We store a generic IFC object, but with all the properties needed by FreeCAD to understand and recreate the parametric object. Other applicat

as the answers may vary depending on your role, needs and experiences. Most likely you're gonna use both Bonsai and Freecad in the end ;-)

https://github.com/Francisco-Rosa/FreeCAD-library/blob/master/Architectural Parts/Living room/Chair.FCStd

In FreeCAD, at the moment, IF you need to work with IFC, then you still need the IFC file together with the FreeCAD file. But I'm studying a way to bypass that (have the IFC file embedded inside the F

I am diving into the world of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and exploring open-source tools that align with my workflow. While I have come across fantastic options like BlenderBIM, FreeCAD, and

Update 28 from https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2025/001-freecad-news-28

Tutorial on placing doors and windows in FreeCAD:

Here is another component for FreeCAD. It is a parametric terrain with which you can generate a 3D terrain from contour lines of a 2D or 3D topographic survey, and the limits of the building's plateau

kind of out of the blue, but isn't the big advantage of freecad that it let's you create and update 2D drawings, while bonsai requires an external tool like inkscape? Or did I miss some recent develop

Would be nice to start an initiative to improve the pipeline between freecad, bonsai, and others, via standard ifc parameters.

https://osarch.org/2023/08/13/freecad-0-21-released/. (I mean, FreeCAD 1.0 was released, version 1.1 is in the development.)

If any format is possible, why not IFC in blender and freecad?

My problem with all of them, Blender Bonsai and FreeCAD is the lack of an architect(ural) compatible fluid sketching/drawing/modeling style or workflow. This is a philosophical thing.

There are indeed a lot to improve in FreeCAD BIM/Arch, there are many discussion in the FreeCAD Forum recently, good to have more suggestion and contributors :)

I just totally prefer the FreeCAD interface as for workflow Blender is slower when you have to be changing from Object mode to Edit mode..., the BIM process has been outstandingly updated in FCAD, I

This video follows the previous one and explains options that the user has of opening or importing an IFC file to FreeCAD.

IMHO FreeCAD and Bonsai shine on different things, I think for a small project and for someone who comes from another BIM app FreeCAD might be better suited (also if you need precise NURBS-based geome

sounds great, do you mean FreeCAD v Bonsai or Blender?

I am absolutely loving FreeCAD 1.0. Sorry to say for Blender users but this is turning out better than Bonsai.