In this case, "lock" I think is exactly what we want, because we do want it to sound restrictive. In many aspects of CAD, "restriction" is a good thing, something we want. It definitely means restricting the freedom. But iFC is a strict, carefully tailored standard. So if the sof...

I understand ;) No problem, there is space for everyone, and we also want to have a healthy commercial / non-commercial relationship around FreeCAD. And I believe having pro tools that rely on FreeCAD is something potentially good for everybody. I'll be curious to see more of this, please keep shari...

Could you please tell us more about this "lock" concept ? I see two scenarios here, and they both seem to me equally important: 1) You want to use both IFC objects and not IFC objects in your FreeCAD document. That is, using the full power of FreeCAD while working on a BIM project, with o...

Cross-posting from https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2024-002-freecad-news-16 Hi all! Here we are for a new update showing what I am doing currently with FreeCAD , specifically on the BIM and NativeIFC fronts. Revamped NativeIFC and FreeCAD 1.0 plan Thanks to the brand-new sponsoring I am getting fro...

I think the easiest way would be to do a very minimal workbench and add all the commands of PartDesign. Have a look at https://wiki.freecad.org/Workbench_creation But there might be further mechanisms of PartDesign that might not be available that way...

I generally agree with RayAtFreecad though that the window tool is often clumsy and hard to use. I myself end up mostly in creating the window first, outside of any wall, then including it manually. What you call "bottom-up" is actually a try at working around a limitation of FreeCAD, that...

Ok sent both of you (and to @paddle who was interested too) an invite

Cross-posting from https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2024-001-freecad-1-roadmap This is a better road map of what I envision for BIM/Arch/IFC features for FreeCAD 1.0 Arch/BIM/NativeIFC integration Currently, the BIM feature set in FreeCAD relies on 3 different modules: Arch, which is built-in, BIM, ...

These "magical dimensions" in Revit are indeed some very special feature. At the moment Draft dimensions are "dumb" somehow, they can only show the dimension being measured. But there could be a way to tie them to something else. That's a whole new project, though!

Excellent thread! I'd be really happy to carry this effort further, and the more people participate, the better! What for me are the big points so far: There is large support towards migrating out of mediawiki. There is a series of technical reasons, and we see similar moves elsewhere (Blender is do...