I had a brief look at FreeCAD and the modelling seemed awkward to me. It is simple to understand how to model in the viewport, but it was very hard to change the model afterwards. I had to input numer

By the way, FreeCAD has 2D drawing generation, and has had it much longer than the BlenderBIM Add-on.

To me, freecad is a design package - like archicad, revit or allplan. Blenderbim is BIM authoring software, based around ifc, but with added capacity of 2D drawing generation (which no-one else has),

@JQL Blender and FreeCAD are good at modeling different types of shapes - this is regardless of the design stage (concept vs construction). They use different paradigms for modeling, and there is no s

What this means is that dynamo and FreeCAD can be used together for free using dynfreecad?

If you would use FreeCAD to model your building why would you want to send it to Blender to work on BlenderBIM?

A little note that you don't need to use the dumb walls / doors / stairs etc. They are simply there as a lowest common denominator in case the user wants something almost vanilla out of the box. You c

ASM. It won’t be me ? What I will try is to run FreeCAD from Dynamo in python and pass it breps from Topologic To display! That could be quite amazing as it would be fully free and open source but o

If anybody wants to help a FreeCAD user, see this: Collaboration on Freecad home project plans.

The topological naming problem may be solved in FreeCAD 0.20. But for the time being, you can add static dimensions using Draft Dimension, and just projecting that in the TechDraw page; this is the wo

@JQL I created a quick short video on a trivial example of moving geometry from FreeCAD to Topologic, doing some modification or analysis and moving the result back to FreeCAD. And before anyone says

As to your question about hybrid workflows. Yes. You can model in Sketchup or AutoCAD for example, output to OBJ or STEP or something else. Use a converter software or FreeCAD to convert to BREP or an

@JQL Regarding the other questions: As it exists now, Topologic can read and write to Revit (through Dynamo), Rhino (through Grasshopper) FreeCAD (through BREP) and through them to a large variety of

Another example of FreeCAD workflow for Architecture:

Topologic can readily read in OCCT BREP so FreeCAD can be used as the editor and then we can simply adapt “Topology.ByImportedBREP” and “Topology.ExportToBREP” to move geometry back and forth. For Ble

...////https://chocolatey.org/packages/blender$ choco install blender////https://chocolatey.org/packages/freecad/0.19.0.22366-dev$ choco install Freecad --pre ////https://chocolatey.org/packages/sweet

@topologic I can also offer some advice on supporting IFC. @brunopostle has his own Perl-based IFC library, which is one option, and FreeCAD, BIMServer, and the BlenderBIM Add-on use the C++ / Python

@infeeeee Noted that in FreeCAD forum, just not sure what exactly it is helping, and what PyFlow does ?

This forum won't be better than FreeCAD forum

There was a discussion on FreeCAD forum some time ago because someone saw the software has been used to design 3d printed weapons. Difference with Autodesk is that they do not showcase it, support it,