This tutorial provides an overview of IFC modes in FreeCAD. First released in FreeCAD 1.0, users can utilize these modes with regard to IFC modeling:

Great projects. And I am very pleased to see that "FreeCAD BIM" Yorik is also on board.

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Bonsai (FreeCAD, That Open Company etc.) has brought liberation for IFC use, and I believe it's too late for any campaign against IFC to survive the revolution!

Speckle has an interesting approach where breps embed both the brep geometric data and the mesh representation computed by the software : in any of exact geometry software as Freecad, both exist as me

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I'm considering betting in either Bonsai or FreeCAD for my transition exactly for the reasons you mention. The git coordination of versions is an incredible feature.

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I wasn't thinking about why IFC instead of proprietary, but rather this particular BIM software, like FreeCAD or Bonsai, that edit IFC natively, helped you design better and eventually more swiftly, a

I think exploring these 'wedge workflows' has its merits. @yorik and I, for a number of years, roundtripped large scale details between Revit and FreeCAD via IFC. Is a great way to slowly get into I

are still very far from that either in Bonsai or FreeCAD, right?

FreeCAD 1.0 was released!

Opposed to the NativeIFC approach Bonsai and Freecad use that only save the changed and/or added entities and attributes to the existing IFC. In this way, since the lines of the IFC are consistent

Do you think it would be feasible to use Sketchup as the editor app and FreeCAD or Bonsai as the app from which we would document the project/model?

Doing that in FreeCAD would be overkill because there would be an unnecessary conversion from mesh to solids. But I think in Blender + Bonsai it would be pretty straightforward. Just not sure of the e

I have a simple question: how easy would it be to convert a Sketchup model into IFC, using FreeCAD or BlenderBIM and carry on from there.

BTW, FreeCAD 1.0 is released! https://blog.freecad.org/2024/11/19/freecad-version-1-0-released/

Sverchok supports this (through FreeCAD):

More generally, since Blender is not intended for exact geometry, I wonder what strategy to adopt about this? Model Brep in Freecad? This would be a good use case using both software on the same IFC f

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