@yorik Would you cross-post in FreeCAD forum - the new Wall tool and associated ideas is interesting for discussion, thanks :)

That being said, I'm happy to announce a 5% profit share ($545.40) to @yorik, for our residential project, mentioned above. Yorik has been producing this project in FreeCAD, and as core developer,

Cool to know how to interact with ifc-geomtetry and Python in BlenderBIM :-) Something I knew only how it works in FreeCAD by importing the geometry into FreeCAD in Python an duse FreeCAD geometry too

* [FreeCAD BIM / Native-IFC] development news by Yorik

Update 19 from https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2024-005-freecad-news-19

Have a look at some links the FreeCAD Arch/BIM/Draft/Native-IFC developer, Yorik, provides on the Native-IFC development -

Hello I'm newbie both on FreeCad and BBim I've started trying to create a Bim model of a small house. This one is now under construction, I've acted two years ago as consultant of the official enginee

Update 18 on https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2024-004-freecad-news-18

Update 17 on https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2024-003-freecad-news-17

I wonder if somebody knows if it is allowed according to the GNU General Public License would be allowed to run a manually separately installed version of LibreDWG to convert DWG to DXF from within a

I'd love to have better MEP tools in FreeCAD. But I lack the expertise... What is sorely needed is people willing to help defining what a good set of MEP tools would look like. Anyone interested? ;)

hopefully this time we get the thing done and merged in freecad!

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FreeCAD BIM update 16 on https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2024-002-freecad-news-16

https://forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?p=329040&hilit=modulor#p329040

BIM plans for FreeCAD 1.0 - https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2024-001-freecad-1-roadmap

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2024/organizations/freecad

Like FreeCAD and sweetHome3D, Blender could have a scale calibration feature to upscale the background images. This way you could use the Blender 3D tools on the image of plans or BlenderBIM tools or

But if you want something integrated to an AEC workflow, using measurement tools like @Moult says, then I suggest to use FreeCAD or SweetHome3D. Both software allow to import a PDF file as background

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