Ah yes! Using FreeCAD is a great option I hadn't considered which simplifies PythonOCC (though I'd assume vanilla PythonOCC should also make getting volumes very easy). PythonOCC is also perhaps more

Somehow I stumbled on the Part module in FreeCAD.

Thanks, added to https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=FreeCAD#External_resources

* OpenSourceEcology, who is designing the Seed Eco-home, which might have some overlap with passive houses :) They use FreeCAD and do a "swarm" build and have a rather left-field bus

FreeCAD has a new channel for news related to the project: FreeCAD News Blog

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It seems there is, except the first rectangle extrusion, there is not test for FreeCAD. Version of FreeCAD tested was not reported.

I created a table in freecad and exported it as a .dae file to import in blender for the rendering, but for some reason the texture colour is not depicted correctly, I added two screenshots of the sit

Circlify node will not be availablesv: FreeCAD package is not available, Solids nodes will not be available2022-08-22 14:08:45,496 INFO dependencies.py 128 sv: FreeCAD package is not available, S

This seems line an appropriate thread to paste this from FreeCAD on fosstodon:

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but what would be use cases where you'd want to switch between Freecad and Blender?

We could have someone from Blender Foundation speak to a specific issue that's relevant to the subject. If interop with FreeCAD is deemed critical for a reason, we could have someone from FreeCAD sit

for 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10, or you can install a freecad snapshot built for fedora 36 and python 3.10 from this freecad fedora copr repository.

* FreeCAD latest release 0.20 is still using Python 3.9

FreeCAD subpages. I'm not sure about the best way to manage subpages. I'd love to hear a suggestion. I'm wondering if they should be branded and presented as "books" or "col

* FreeCAD/FreeCAD setup is a subpage of Freecad @duncan Should this have an infobox?

wrong places?. The only sources I used are the FreeCAD Forum, snippets from this forum and ifcopenshell academy. It's a lot of trial and error... and reading BuildingSmart documentation and logically

After reading this thread and seeing this post on a Freecad forum from 2016.

There were a few issues I noted a while ago when I tried to do that in FreeCAD.

* Our pages about BlenderBIM, IFC (in general), IfcOpenShell & Revit for OpenBIM deserve attention - people seem to be reading them. I think we need a discussion about how to organize these to