BIM with FreeCAD - Getting started
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- This video is a general "Getting started" introduction to the BIM workbench. In it, we will model a small building with walls, columns, beams, slabs and windows, organize our model by grouping objects and creating storeys, see how to produce 2D views of our model, and finally export it to IFC.
It is not a tutorial to be followed (will do that at some point), but I tried to make something that would help someone to simply see how it all works, and how to get started with BIM modeling.
- FreeCAD: www.freecadweb.org
- The BIM workbench documentation: www.freecadweb.org/wiki/BIM_W...
- The file produced in this video: www.dropbox.com/s/7ie3xxfs077...
- The blog article this video is part of: yorik.uncreated.net/guestblog...
- Support me on Patreon: / yorikvanhavre - Věda a technologie
by far your tutorials are the best! Thank you for every second you spent doing these videos. Cheers from Canada
thanks for the nice tutorial and all the rest of the work!
Thanks Yorik. Keep up the good work!
Very thanks for your very useful tutorial. I'll wait for the next tutorial.
This is a really clear and hands on video. Thank you very much.
Thanks for your tutorial and new version.
Amazing tutorial and a very honest presentation especially with the mistakes that any beginner would experience resolved and explained
Thank you
Brilliant absolutely loved how you presented this Its really helped me with under the hood of freecad and bim
Very nice toturial Sir, Thank you for this
This is great! This is THE tutorial to get started. Perhaps the only missing bit is using sketches with constraints to generate the 2D objects. However, I love the simple dummy model approach which still shows the (almost) complete workflow! +11
Thanks! Note that you'll find many videos on the net about constraints and sketches.. it's one of the most widely used building blocks of freecad
tutorial molto chiaro ed utile. Grazie per il tuo lavoro.
Great tutorial, thanks
great job
I love you for your work, you are an idol.
Great! Thanks for your video,
Thank you!!! helpful for me
Thank you !
Hello and thank you for providing us with the info on the basics!
Wanted to ask, presuming that you have had some experience also with the most popular commercial BIM software (Tekla Structures, REVIT, Allplan, etc):
1) would you say that you can do everything you need until LOD 300 (as per BIMFORUM specs) with FreeCAD?
2) what are the drawbacks of FreeCAD compared to the previously mentioned software? What possibilities does it lack in comparison?
3) what would be the reasons for a person or a company to invest in that commercial software instead of using FreeCAD?
I hope you find time to answer these questions from your experience! Thank you and best luck!
Hi Yorik,
Thanks for your videos and for FreeCad in general, they great!!
I don't have the IFC Explore Elements enabled. I installed de 0.17 oficial version in Win10. What do I have to do to enable it?
Thanks for a well organized presentation and for showing multiple ways of achieving the same thing. FreeCAD is further along than I thought it would be. Are you working on software itself or are you a designer using FreeCAD for commercial work?
Both! I actually started and learned how to code for FreeCAD because I wanted a free and open-source design tool like that to exist. When nobody does it for you, you have to do it yourself :) I guess that's the main motivation behind almost every open-source software developer out there...
Excellent video, thanks :) Can you cover how to add more information to building elements, how to add electrical, ventilation, piping etc? For example import an IFC of a lamp and a sink from a vendor, place it in the house. And then maybe make your own IFC of an object like this, add information and place it several places in the house model?
Again, excellent video, keep 'em coming! :D
You should of added a few dimensions in your comment.
how do you set it up so walls are created point to point, in the windows version, you click on the grid once, and you have a single massive wall, with the cursor in the center axis of the wall that has been created
Como eu configuro a extensão da linha de cotas na bancada techdraw, dando a ela uma distância da alvenaria, a cota parte de dentro da parede , eu queria da uma distância, diminuindo a linha de chamada da cota ?
Thank you..
Thanks for the tutorial. I have a doubt at 11:55 when moving the window you are selecting the window 3D geometry. I am confused since in the FreeCAD manual / tutorial downloadable from the Wiki, it suggests to move an element by selecting its sketch, instead on the 3D geometry.
I noticed two results from that: first when moving the 3D geometry, in example the window attached to a wall, the hole in the wall is updated as the window moves to a new place. but the sketch is left behind, tho the sketches for that kind of objects are usually hidden.
Second, if the window is moved by selecting its sketch, the windows moves as well, but the hole in the wall is not updated, unless the window is "attached" again to the wall.
I was wondering, which method is recommended. Taking in count if you later want to open the window panels, you need to work on the sketch. Thank you
Greetings,
When I attempt to create the wall such as the video host has, my wall fails to show-up, is this a bug or is there some intermittent step I missed? I am amble to draw the line like he does but the 3D model doesn't show :( I'm going to start at the beginning again and see if I missed something ( will delete this comment if that's the case, other wise HELP!) lol
Is there a way to do Energy Performance with freecad and BIM ?
Thank you it is very useful, is the ifc file list only in 0.18? I don't have the same list in 0.17.
Yes IFC is supported in 0.17 already. (You need an extra component called ifcOpenShell, on windows versions it is bundled within FreeCAD already).
this is clearly needing more views
I'm new to this, how to show that navigation box in right upper corner? please help, is it because I use stable version?
Indeed. It's been added in 0.18, which will be released at the end of this ear normally.
Thanks for the tutorial, helped me a lot!
Especially the stuff with the working planes and to enable/disable the sticking to the working planes to avoid moving in not wanted directions.
One question though, when you are creating walls like in 19:45 the distance is shown in your freecad version. Is this a setting one has to enable? I could not find anything in the preferences.
There is a button on the snaps toolbar to enable these
@@YorikvanHavre Ah, thanks a lot!
Hi,
At 20:00 it still behaves the same way in freecad 019 20409 (very last development version for linux) :
The new wall is created with a clone (because the wall created before had a clone ?)
This is not behaving as expected for a beginner and rather difficult to fix, could you give a help please ?
At this moment, it also surprised you, didn't it ?
Regards from France
you may had an option activated in preferences/arch/general parameters object creation : automatic junction
for me, this option easily causes problems when achieving walls, i wonder if this option can be awared within the dashboard
in 019 20409 the only solution seems to be the command Less (-)
Sigh.. comming from a revit background i find freecad very difficult to use in creating complex structures slabs are automatically converted to walls walls cannot be trimmed or extended ... i wasted so much time already ...
*отлично*
Yorik, eu instalei o APP BIM que você mostra no vídeo, aos 02:00min, mas, eu baixei e instalei a versão 0,18, hoje, (16/08/2020). E reparei haver uma opção "BIMBOTS", instalo ela? ou não é necessário?
Você pode, se quiser, mas não é necesário. O bimbots é um serviço do bimserver que permite fazer testes automáticos, extrair quantidades, etc... a partir de um bimserver. Cada plugin tem um link para sua página própria, onde tudo é explicado..
Thank u, Can i ask u a question? Why my toolbar customization (on Tab Bim) disapear when i switch tab arch, or sketcher or Part ...?
You have 2 kinds of custom bars: one that is tied to a workbench, and one "global". only the global stays across workbench switching
@@YorikvanHavre THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Good video. but how come my grid remains small and yours not? rewinding several times, i did not see as yet what I missed.... I would want to have a grid at least 60 by 50 feet...
You need to set the number of lines, under the working plane button on the draft toolbar
Thank you for the tutorial. I think the workflow for freecad should be improved
great video ....would prefer it is 0.19 newest one.
Oi Yorik, sou arquiteta e entusiasta dos softwares livres. Estou testando o BIM e gostaria de contribuir com você no aprimoramento do programa e relatando bugs. Tem algum contato que eu possa falar diretamente contigo?
O melhor para notificar bugs é usar o bug tracker do freecad em tracker.freecadweb.org mas nas primeiras vezes ou quando você não tem certeza se o que você achou é um bug, é melhor postar no forum no forum.freecadweb.org (na categoria help ou general discussion). Mas pode falar comigo tb, sou bem fácil de achar nas redes :)
Como se edita o carimbo das pranchas, por exemplo, ela vem em inglês mas gostaria em português. E como se acrescenta mais informações no carimbo das pranchas ? Grato pelo belo trabalho.
Dá para criar facilmene suas próprias pranches e carimbos, usando qualquer aplicativo que possa gerar arquivos SVG. Sugiro inkscape ( inkscape.org ), que é software livre também, mas tem outros, como illustrator, etc... Tutorial aqui: wiki.freecadweb.org/TechDraw_TemplateHowTo
@@YorikvanHavre Muito obrigado. Estou fascinado com essa poderosa ferramenta. Parabéns pelo trabalho !
@@RosemarMaciel Que bom que você goste! Não hesite em participar, trazer ideias etc! Tem uma seção em português no forum ( forum.freecadweb.org/viewforum.php?f=32 ) que precisa desesperadamente de gente ;)
@@YorikvanHavre Vou participar sim kkkkk e tenho até uma sugestão que é fazer uma fita métrica guia tipo trm no skethep. Facilitaria a co dação do projeto sem precisar esta sempre ordenado pelas coordenadas X y e z. Vou interagir lá. Saudações brasileiras
Hello Yorik,
Thanks for this video. I followed all the steps in the video using FreeCAD version 0.18.4 installed on a machine running Ubuntu 18.04. I also installed IfcOpenShell by following the instructions at this link: wiki.freecadweb.org/Arch_IFC. But when I got to the point in your video where I needed to use the IFC Elements Manager buttons, they were grayed-out and I could not activate them. The only button I could activate was the Classification Manager. I am a bit of a newbie to Linux and a definite newbie to FreeCAD, so if you have a fix that can be implemented by someone who is just now figuring out what sudo-apt-get means, that would be great. Thanks!
Hello Yorik,
I think I figured it out. The latest FreeCAD 0.18.4 stable version (dated 2019-11-04) on the Ubuntu PPA seems to have a bug. I deleted it and used the latest Freecad 0.19 daily build instead.
@@cgthompsonii5698 This is best anyway. But usually a greyed-out button means that another command is active.
Sigh! Sigh! How to trim wall corners to a perfect 90 deg.