12 The fastest way from concept to BIM with Homemaker, Topologic, and BlenderBIM with Bruno Postle 

FreeCAD's internal 3D modelling kernel is OpenCascade, which is the same as IfcOpenshell (which support BlenderBIM), as well as Topologic. Probably the reason why FreeCAD's Native-IFC share/use codes with BlenderBIM/IfcOpenShell. Importing Topologic (TopologicPy) and using is quite intuitive; the modelling concept in Topologic is more or less the same as in FreeCAD (Part module), vertex, edge, face, shell, solid, compSolid etc. Hope to see more improvements and peoples joining the development :D

And it is amazing that peoples like Yoirk, F_Rosa etc. use opensource application to create incredible models and drawings (e.g. Vila Matilda by F_Rosa - search the forum ). It would be great if these workflow are shared so more peoples could adopt to the opensource workflow and improve it.

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That's a great question. Yes it is possible! But depending on what you are used to, it may be a bit more time consuming. I have worked on a large doctor's office suite in a building completely with Freecad and Blender. I used freecad as BIM. Modeling, Blender and Freecad are already there. Documentation is the area that they need substantial improvements on, but that is slowly happening as well. BlenderBIM is something that at the moment allows a complete workflow including documentation. Freecad's BIM workbench in being rewritten based on OpenIFC also (the software under the hood of BlenderBIM). community.osarch.org is a good place to follow the progress, although it can get a bit technical at times. If you are used to working with Autocad, then working with Freecad would feel fairly similar and even better at some point. If you are used to working with Revit, then there is a lot to be desired on the documentation side of things in Freecad. But people are doing projects already. Check out openingdesign.com/ as they use almost exclusively open source software. I must also mention a few good words about Rhino 3D. It's paid, but non-subscription and the value it offers is great and the team truly cares about their user base instead of profits, while still maintaining sustainable business operations. I use it quite often for documentation. Blender and Rhino work quite well together. Quite a long winded, but hopefully it makes it a little clearer for you.

Two point perspective? It's the same as a single point perspective, depending on the camera location to the subject.

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That's very interesting! Had to look it up to see what it looked like. And I suppose the core may be quite similar, using the command prompt? Found someone that still uses autocad 12 from the 80s www.cadtutor.net/forum/topic/71154-first-book-of-start-study-autocad/

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