FreeCAD is based on CATIA (which in some points is an advantage) and is not user-friendly for "architects" it's maybe normal for some engineers from PLM industry (which FreeCAD lost

Once bim workflow polished, FreeCad will be suited for more than 95% of architects - the vaste majority - small agency with small "not so fancy" projects, and for those people reduci

@carlopav from the path you follow it's easy to predict the near future, and believe in me, FreeCAD doesn't have any place better than the place today has in the future

Dion wants anything to be under the umbrella of IfcOpenShell and FreeCAD, and I don't count myself in these two groups (until you all want to follow your own views)

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FreeCAD is a strong promise for BIM industry at the moment. And you can program scripts, with python, too.

What makes me sad, is that BlenderBIM friends look like Autodesk guys, just try to build something new without any plan, I think this has happened to FreeCAD too, they just build a tree that looks lik

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I've seen some academic articles, mainly in PLM area that investigated FreeCAD before and in some areas it was better than even some well-known commercial tools

FreeCAD is a great movement but doesn't have characteristics needed to be used massively

@CJT1963 welcome to the OSArch forums! We're a community working together to build free software for the built environment! Out of the list you've mentioned, FreeCAD is the only free software, so that

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@bend thank you for the Freecad advice :)

Give FreeCAD a try. It is suited for this. But be aware most Architects who use FreeCAD for design need to finish the drawings exported from FreeCAD with some 2D drawing software like LibreCAD or Inks

AFAIK neiterh FreeCAD or BlenderBIM have a certification. Not because they would not pass, but because of the cost. A certificate costs a few thousands of euros ... a price list can be downloaded here

But BlenderBim and FreeCad are in this list:

I know that FreeCAD has a recycler on export-time (BlenderBIM Add-on does not, so I expect IFCs from Blender to be rather inefficient too), so it'd be interesting to run this on a large FreeCAD IFC.

I had lot of fun in the last 2 years with coding in freecad (got quite addicted quite fast) :)

Me too beginner, and have made a few fixes and small improvements to FreeCAD Arch / Draft Workbench !