FreeCAD BIM development news by Yorik - October 2020

My name is Simon, and I'm an architect in Chicago, Illinois, USA. I'm a heavy Revit user at work, but I'm always looking for new FOSS workflows that can realistically be implemented in a commercial en

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* Currently BlenderBIM is more than a prototype. It has a community and development team. And it is an addon for a very solid 3D modeler software. The same for FreeCAD, a 3D software with a global sc

create a good enough add on/plug in for blender/freecad so they have a free alternative that reaches the same level of archicad/revit/"sketchupBIM". I mean I just push this idea to

is the bcfplugin code, which is now used in both FreeCAD and the BlenderBIM Add-on for BCF support. The code was well written and was able to spot mistakes in upstream examples.

OSArchwiki my mind blow. BIM with Blender and Freecad it’s just the next natural step for me.

@jtm2020hyo you can't at the moment. FreeCAD has integrated FEM analysis with 3D solid elements (FEM Module) but it is not associated with the IFC (what was called SAV above) format, as far as I know.

sorry for my ignorance, but how could I use SAV or SAF format to do FEM structural analysis in Blender or FreeCAD?

* https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Category:FreeCAD

in IFC authoring tools like BlenderBIM and FreeCAD

If not, it would be nice to work with Freecad to develop a standard along these lines.

there. I do not like this at all. Bimtester for FreeCAD works for me. But I really need ot work with it a bit to be sure I did it the way I really would like to. I am quite new to all this behaviour

this function would be useful to integrate into FreeCAD, to filter only the relevant psets/qtos for users.

From there, you can start contributing code / features / bugfixes to projects like the BlenderBIM Add-on, FreeCAD, or various IFC utilities like IfcDiff, IfcClash, IfcPatch, IfcCSV, etc. You can also

... I still did not tested all features in FreeCAD and Blender, I have a question, is there any method tho extract a donut from a cube? Because according to the image, I could suggest do this process

@paullee I've posted it on FreeCAD's forum as you requested.

And how about the railing, seem not shown in the FreeCAD model.

Hi @JQL , you may like to open a new thread and/or discuss in FreeCAD Draft, Arch & BIM sub-forum

If he can not produce what you want because of Revit's limitation, tell him to try another software such as FreeCAD or BlenderBIM.