This discussion was created from comments split from: Making BlenderBIM & Revit friends.

Before that, recently noted again @marcin_ose and @theoryshaw have their Open Source Ecology and Open Detailing website which probably have established some more complete workflow with FreeCAD etc. s

Concept design developed with FreeCAD and rendered on Blender by FC user cad1234.

What I'm trying to say here, is that modeling a building or parts of it with FreeCAD or Blender is not faster or better for me yet, nor allows something that I can't achieve with my current tool, so

For me, it's about a question of habit. I don't use Blender or Freecad directly with Revit, but I iterate my design concepts mostly in Blender and then Rhino/GH, and eventually Revit. It's not a strai

Can't agree more ! :D Exactly what in my mind since I start exploring FreeCAD, and later attempt to 'develop' some tools to help design revisioning (and preference using Sketch over Draft Line as

Your modeling of Villa Savoye showed me that with FreeCAD I could build an architectural model, but I'm seeking something that could improve my design iteration and I feel FreeCAD or Blender are more

So, it seems in additional to original Yorik's Arch/BIM Tutorial, more documentation / tutorial to latest capabilities and creative use of available tools in FreeCAD is needed, hope someone can help :

Even if I find Blender modeling less fluent than Sketchup, I have tested modeling in it and it's more intuitive than FreeCAD.

We have a quite extense list @ FreeCAD too: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob/master/src/Mod/Arch/Presets/profiles.csv but i'd be more than happy to adapt this to use a more generic and agnostic

This is what I have been used in FreeCAD for years. It could be adapted to any CAD, FEM whatever software ... https://github.com/boltsparts/BOLTS

A house modeling made in FreeCAD by user ABeton. Realy cool screenshots. (No Sketchup, only FreeCAD)

But, it is fine if we can address paid jobs to FreeCAD and BlenderBIM developers to support their work.

@marcin_ose I'd like to rename this thread "FreeCAD documentation for the Seed Eco-Home 2" if that's okay.

We basically use Freecad/Revit, and now BlenderBIM to roundtrip large scale details via IFC.

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For CAD alternatives I would look into iges which you can use FreeCAD I believe to do so

We are generating build documentation for the Seed Eco-Home 2 - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Home_v2. We're looking to pay design-builders who use FreeCAD and are capable of generating

It would be cool to have a water color filter for BlenderBIM and FreeCAD visualisations (in 3D and 2D representations).

excitement that ifcopenshell, BlenderBIM and FreeCAD ++ has gotten to this stage). In further response to @duncan, I don't know Sean Carroll, but I'll contact him and share this backstory, hopefully