![]() The projects I was trying to develop had to be done on time and I had clients to respond to, so I had no time to keep investigating. That also put me off so, in the end, I did give up. I thought that it was pretty easy to model that in Sketchup and Import it to Blender or FreeCAD, but then I was using Sketchup to fill in the gaps of other modellers that would then bring me more difficulty than Sketchup for the rest of the work. I also couldn't find an easy way of building a terrain model from a topographical survey from either FreeCAD or Blender. I didn't get there and suddenly I had lost a lot of time investigating something that held potential but that I couldn't dominate. However then I wasn't able to achieve how to get from these parametric façades to windows and door objects creation. So I tried building parametric façade projections with Sketches and that held great potential. If the floor changed, windows/doors were floating around. I was a bit put down when I found out that if I would change the parametric mass model, or walls in the floor plan layout, windows would loose their place. ![]() These parameters are also rather restrictive and I couldn't find a way to create my own windows and door yet. A window is placed in a direct modeling way, but then it's fine tuned by parameters which I can hardly relate to as they are lost in the properties UI. ![]() However, then the BIM workbench comes into play. I can also manage mass studies with it's parametric tools. I can manage that at an initial stage if I'm sketching a floor plan. As FreeCAD requires preparing ahead, if I'm going to work on floor plans or façades, for instance I'm not thinking 3D but in 2D + 2D. I don't have to think and prepare and then make. In sketchup I point and click and things happen. The idea behind having to setup the plan I want to work or insert models is not working fluid. Insertion or drawing on faces is cumbersome for me. Only docs.įreeCAD, on the other hand is fully parametric by nature and also has direct modeling techniques.įor Architecture I can make a full parametric mass study or floor plan with walls, but then I bang my head against it's direct modeling tools. If I knew I could seamlessly export them to DWG, I would dive deep into it. If I knew, right now, that I could generate a full set of permit documents and later some nice set of construction documents with Blender. There is still much lacking from it, like the streamlined ability of generating 2D drawings for PDF and CAD, which is putting me off but I could see myself using it as a direct modeller with some parametric abilities in the future. It's more of a direct modeler with the added benefit of modifiers and, eventually, Sverchok. ![]() I haven't explored much but I'm imagining Generating and Deform modifiers.Įven if I find Blender modeling less fluent than Sketchup, I have tested modeling in it and it's more intuitive than FreeCAD. Having roundtripping between FreeCAD and Blender would be truly benefitial for both environments.Īnd do you think a Sketch from FreeCAD is something that could be used in Blender in this process? I would find it very interesting to have a FreeCAD sketch used as base for some of blender's modifiers. ![]()
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