Have you already experiment a workflow from Rhino to IFC using Blender ? (or FreeCAD ?)

There are already lots of BIM content libraries out there, but I would be in huge favour of auditing them, cleaning them up (especially for IFC), and making sure licensing is explicit (I have seen a l

* it has to be able to provide non-Blend files. Many Blender users can treat Blend files as an asset library itself, but I believe this hinders our ability to work together with FreeCAD. I want it to

100% in favor of this too. An open library of models (blocks), symbols (2d blocks, like profiles) and materials, all usable in all our apps. We have one in FreeCAD already, but it's not very bim-orien

100% agree. Someone needs to sit down and do a review of all the existing Blender content asset managers out there, and see which fits the bill to have a content library that you can drag and drop fro

Given we're looking at interoperability, perhaps it would make sense to build a library for the OSArch ecosystem so Archipack, BlenderBim, Freecad, etc don't have to reinvent the wheel every time and

What we had to do at FreeCAD unfortunately is close account creation (only admins can create accounts)... Mediawiki apparently had not much else to offer as a solution

As I said in my previous post someone has presented a House project and energy analysis with FreeCad, Blender 3D and VI Suite on FreeCAD forum. VI Suite is an open source addon for Blender. Repository

Thanks @ReD_CoDE ! From a bit of searching it seems that the original IFC2Modelica was never released open-source. However, another research paper did create an open source thing called BIM2Modelica w

That is super interesting! I wasn't aware of the energy freecad workbench... indeed it seems an ifc file could contain everything a gbxml file needs:

I see opportunities in Blender, BlenderBIM, FreeCAD, or even other movements that inspire me and others for sure will help

Here an Energy Workbench for FreeCAD

* I know that there is already energy analysis tools in Blender but I don't know how it works and if it is able to generate gbXML already. Cf. An Arch project showcase on FreeCAD forum

I appreciate what FreeCAD and its community does, while I appreciate what BlenderBIM does, I see myself as part of this movement too

I'd be curious to know why you do think so... I've been contributing to freecad for about one year and half, and i think the potentials for a good architecture workflow are all there... It just need a

It returns a shape which includes faces, edges, and verts, as well as the object matrix. This makes it super useful in Blender. I think it is less useful in FreeCAD, since in FreeCAD a lot of the unde

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@yorik Sure thing :) I haven't touched the code in a while and it currently is quite low on the to-do list, but gbXML expects a closed mesh polygon to represent a space (and from memory, only supports

You all follow the same insights that I shared too, like "ready-to-use" content that just needs to be assembled, but the approach you and your friends in FreeCAD community follow is

buildingSMART doesn't want change, because needs a lot of effort, software vendors as well, it doesn't matter it be Revit, FreeCAD or even BlenderBIM or even IfcOpenShell