Due to the future of OpenStudio outside SketchUp I decided to try open source alternatives like Blender or FreeCAD and I want to learn how to extract information from IFC in order to use it in OpenStu

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@vocx very cool! What if the meetup could be about modeling complex parametric solids in FreeCAD? That would cater well to the new influx of those looking for tutorials? Who is the most experienced mo

I just don't want Dion builds another FreeCAD

I haven't seen much progress in Arch and BIM in the last months; it seems Yorik has been extremely busy with his personal commitments. However, in the grand scheme of things, Autodesk's Fusion360 soft

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we're (slowly)beginning to adapt ladybug tools in freecad too. really the tools are very well made, all the interesting stuff is in the gui-less foss parts, with a good structure.. very handy to use.

serious cases. but i'd also like to try that in freecad in a form or another, it would be a benefit anyway, be it only for speed. is there a mechanism already in ifcopenshell to gather the entire dep

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@yorik can you try run an MicroMVD based on the instructions on this page? https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Using_MicroMVDs_for_exchange_requirements Once you can run them, see if FreeCAD is ca

FreeCAD wiki: Donate

i'd be glad to add the missing stuff to freecad as well, but i'm not sure i understand well the documents you wrote and the different scenarios.. i suppose what matters really is that all the mentione

ATM in freecad an array is exported as an IfcElementAssembly of objects with shared geometry. But we could define together properties that would define the array, that apps could use to reconstruct it

In any case, it's really thrilling to see different bridges to freecad being built!! it furnishes many new alternative creation interfaces. i'd also like to see grasshopper entering the game ;) did an

The screenshots are views of pages generated by TechDraw WB in FreeCAD. They are not PDF and there is not edition with LibreCAD or Inkscape. In TechDraw you can add texts, SVG symbols, and dimensions.

Wonder if Werner has a donation account for FreeCAD ?

The above 6 drawings are purely output of TechDraw / FreeCAD, or edited in LibreCAD ?

I understood @duncan differently. I think he meant that a link for donations should be in the specific wiki page of a particular project, say, the donation link for FreeCAD would be in the FreeCAD pag

Here there are the final general drawings generated by FreeCAD and TechDraw WB for permits and authorities (the project is a standard model for mass construction, so no location is defined yet). Now,