BIM with FreeCAD - Introduction 

Thanks for the comments everybody! I am uploading the next one now. I couldn't make it bigger yet but will work on it. I also tried another sound setup, tell me if it's good enough. About specific questions (windows, HVAC elements, etc..) I will address them in coming videos. About deconstructing/reconstructing a building, that's a very good idea too, will think about how to do that best. Thanks all of you for the encouragements!

Definitely make more - a series of videos 10 minutes or less that focus on specific features / how-to's, etc. would be great. This does a great job explaining why FreeCAD can be a valuable production tool!

Great job! Very informative and clear presentation. I look forward to seeing more videos. Thank you!

I wanted it for soooo long! Thanks Yorik, I'll wait more videos.

Wow! You've made such an amazing effort! This application is becoming a really powerful tool.

Impressive, thank you! Waiting unpatiently for arch workflow series...))

Great work! I can't wait to see an architecture bim workflow using freecad!

Great Intro. Ilike the draftsight model. really clean

Your video is fantastic and very helpful. I'm working on building my dream house and with little knowledge you have truly helped my learning curve! Looking forward to more!

Very good that I found this introduction. It helps me a lot to get positioned within the huge amount of functionality in FreeCAD. That's the hardest part with FreeCAD, to get started and know what to do where and not get lost. So I see many videos these days and am so thankful for your global overview your giving here. Most others concentrate on just a certain piece. This here fills the gap I often have. Many thanks!

why on earth did i found out about FreeCAD in 2019? and sheet metal plugin too....are you kidding me? this is awesome! Best.

Thank you. Very useful after I was able to build my first 4 walls for a porch attached to my house. It gave me many hints to learn new things.

I'm just approaching at free cad. Your video is really convincing. Please, keep doing them.

Thank you for your excellent contribution to FreeCad,Yorik. I am not an architect, but I do plan to design a house I may build in FreeCad and would like to see a tutorial course on the Arch workbench.

Wow, what an impressive package FreeCad is. Than you for creating the Video for us.

Thanks for the insightful video. Looking forward to more tutorial videos.

Very informative, excellent program [freecad]. Just what i was looking for. Easy to draw whats in your head. Not follow someones else's thinking.

Cool, thank you for this introduction video, many times i miss this kind of videos with general explanation to see the possibilities of the program ... suscribed ;-)

I am new to BIM. This video was very useful - Thanks!

Seems pretty good! Thanks for sharing.

Excellent video, thank you, Yorik.

Just the idea of being able to place quick-draw Blender assets in parameterized containers is so enabling! I think this will become my preferred framework for architectural design.

Thank you Yorik. Yes - make more videos of FreeCAD!

I'm a total newbie to BIM & CAD but this is really good. I can envisage seeing the forest for the trees.

Awesome job! Congratulations!

Great introduction to FreeCAD. Looking forward to watching other videos. I am very new to modeling tools and design in general. I am also a very new user of FreeCAD.

J'ai hâte de voir les vidéos suivantes. Merci ! J'espère qu'il y aura aussi des vidéos plus tard (beaucoup plus tard ?) pour nous aider à rentrer dans la partie Arch du code source. Créer de nouveaux objets et voir la gestion vers/depuis IFC.

I guess i lived in a cave because i never knew there was actually a free software which takes the best from every other 3D and 2D cad programs. It just needs a Grasshopper connection and its a dream!

Awesome job! thanks for this introduction video

thank you for this great video, it helps me a lot!!

This is gold. Construction is a multitrillion dollar enterprise worldwide, so a large opportunity for open source.

Many thanks, Yorik!

This is amazing how useful is freecad.

Hey man! That's awesome :D thank you so much!!! Your explication has been helpful and interesting. FreeCAD is very flexible and more powerful than other famous softwares! I hope you'll do more tuts about it... and I hope I'll do something good like you with FreeCAD! Thanks

Thanks for your time and for your job.

I liked. Good job with this intro video. It shows the posibilites of FreeCad. Me gusta que usaste el español en tus dibujos. Saludos amigo.

Many thanks Yorik for your effort. I am trying to learn Freecad to design HVAC elements (air ducts, grids .etc.) or import them as IFC and insert in an architectural model. Any video on this subject will be very useful for me.

Thank you for this great work! God Bless

Thank you . Very useful start for me.

Very helpfull video with great tips. Greetings fom Costa Rica

Maybe you could make a simple video where you remove some of the building components and then show how to rebuild them. A 'renovation' I suppose. That would give us a good idea of a simple workflow.

Bom dia Erick, sou arquiteto e sai do Revit por questões óbvias e ainda bem que achei seus vÍdeos, pois decidi aprender FreeCAD BIM, e o caminho é você, mesmo que seja difícil e longo. Gostei muito da sua explanação mesmo meu inglês sendo quase nada, recorri à legenda traduzida para o Português. Muito obrigado pela inciativa e Parabens, vamos em frente, no futuro? quem sabe? eu colabore com algum conhecimento em FreeCAD BIM.

Great video+clear explanation=more freecad for BIM, plz 😁...start to learn freecad +blender...auto subscribe 😄 two thumbs up

Excellent! Extremely helpful. 19:18 Thank you!

Nice -- I'm using free cad for building objects for 3d printing . But I'm happy to see the architectural side as I've been looking for a replacement for the old google sketchup -- and this looks like it. thanks.

Thankyou so much Yorik. 😊

u are the greatest !! pls keep going !!!

Thank you! This is awesome!!

There is hope!!! All we have to do is convince people to do things "properly". 🙂 Very, very good! Also, I went to "tools > addons manager" to install BIM. Then I see you are the maintainter/creator!!! Awesome!

This software reminds me of Revit, also great video. Would be great to see a video on creating a site plan, Thanks!

Very useful. Greetings from Mexico

excellent -- do more!

Great thank you! Keep up the good work

Excellent.Many thanks!

Bien hecho!

Thanks for this useful video.

Very nice! Thanks.

Great, you know your program. Thank you.

Excellent!

Hello, thanks for the introduction. Can you provide a video showing how to use the window tool? I'm interested in detail how to place a window/door parametric (e.g. controlled by a sketch)

Great intro! Thanks. Would be awesome to get an update on this for latest FreeCAD! 🙏

Most Excellent

very good, thank you very much :-)

I'm an Autodesk user. I googled this software and I found out that I'm just having a tutorial directly from the creator himself. Awesome!. I wish you could do an alternative software to civil3d as well. Tnx I'm gonna give my review later after I finish learning this tool.

Great, thanks!

太好了的BIM免費軟體，應該可以大力推廣！

will the upcoming v0.19 release have any improvements regarding BIM

Excellent work! It would be a tremedous help if you could do such tutorials. For an architect that, having working with comercial BIM programs in middle size studios, has recently initated his own path and wants to work with BIM in a small scale FreeCAD is a promising tool. I've used Blender for rendering before and I just stared using FreeCAD, so I know little. One question: ¿Is at this moment possible to classify the elements in order to export ordered spreedsheets or export and IFC with an specific classification (Property Sets)? Thank you in advance

Olá, sou Designer de Interiores e estou testando outros softwares livres para fazer meus projetos. Eu uso o Sketchup, porém, eu gosto muito do FreeCad e do Blender mas não tenho muito tempo para aprender a trabalhar neles. Por mim eu só usaria software livre, assim como já uso o LibreCad e o LibreOffice. Belo trabalho e um dia espero poder usar apenas o FreeCad para trabalho.

FreeCAD looks as if it may be the program I've been looking for. I hate Sketchup. Gonna give this one a try... Thanks for the video.

Could you export those BIM models in formats that game engines use so you can make buildings for games?

Is there a way to do Energy Performance with freecad and BIM ?

Hi Yorik; nice video! There's a little bug I would like to comment. Drawing a line and using the units MKS for buildings, it's not using meter, it uses mm. Meter is only used in the Global Z axis. However, if I change the units to Euro Buildings (cm, m2, m3), it will use cm on all axis; so this one is ok. It would be nice if MKS used meters also in all axis (Global X, Global Y, Global Z, an Length). Angle is ok, it's "degrees". I'm using FreeCAD version 0.17, revision 13515, 32-bit. (Not sure how to fix it, so I can't send a pull request atm). This change is important I think, 'cause the workflow about buildings is always in meters. A fundamental feature IMHO. Greetings and thanks to this good software.

very cool

Such a great video! I hope you keep producing more like this :) Do you know if there is a module or a workbench for electrical system design (ESD) in FreeCAD? And do you understand brazilian portuguese? I notice the files you're using in the video was written in it (I'm brazilian :D).

How do i import dwg file into freecad. I have tried it severally with no result. I am using version 0.18

Thank you

Hello everyone, i'll try to ask here...i have some dwg files of some buildings, how can I create some rendering videos/images from it? I'm still learning about this hard world, but it's so cool and interesting

Can you show how I can organize, when I begin based on 2D-Floor drawings (of an existing House) and wand to "rebuild" it in Freecad? As far as parts are nothing else than groups I tried to manage Wires of the different floors and setting UP Z-Layer of that parts. Seems to be to complicated because invisible/hiding such elements will not stay. (Same when using CAD-Layers)

Hero!

boa tarde, estou usado o Freecad, e quando uso a bancad techdraw e gero os desenhos 2d e exporto em dxf para abrir no libre cad ou no nanocad, ele exporta o desenho mas não exporta as cotas, gostaria de saber se tem que fazer alguma configuração ou realmente o freecad não exporta as cotas, já tentei de tudo, já perguntei no forum e não tive resposta, falei com varias pessoas no youtube e nada que me falarm deum certo, já reinstalei o freecad e o windows, não resolvel, se puder me orientar , eu agradeço.

I think freeCAD has a huge potential to be come a CAD all in one software ( 2D, 3D, BIM etc), like Blender. I love this software, but I'm still waiting it to be a industry standard..hehe

Fantastic intro to the Arch WB and BIM. just curious as to what issues might arise when exporting to Revit..

Great intro video :) ; could not find ifc++ for linux, ubuntu specifically...

How to export whole application to ifc ?

I wonder what CAD software you showed at 12:15 is that LibreCAD? Since when LibreCAD supports different sheets for a drawing for printing, like other CAD's "paper space" ?

Thanks

When I try to export certain ifc elements as ifc I get the following error message, does anyone know what could be the reason? "cannot create polygon because less than two vertices are given"

Thank?s Sr I want to start use freecad . Can we do structure inside

Qual aplicativo DWG você usa, Yorik? Ps.: ótimo vídeo!

My city is requiring Plot/Site plans for most permanits. Is there a DIY video using Google Earth photo?

Please, more videos! Could you perhaps increase the resolution though, so that the icons and text is more legible - maybe from 144p, which it is currently at, to 240p ...or 360p if necessary.

o que é BIM? faço apenas alguns rascunhos; não sou da área, mas CAD me ajuda bastante com algumas coisinhas! vou testar !

Interesting.

Can you explode polylines?

Fantástico. Você é brasileiro?

Excuse me but I cant make heads or tails of this 'arch' system in free cad works. I'm new to this relatively speaking but have already spent many dozens of hours, weeks and weeks trying to work out how to do a simple line drawing in arch, but have barely made any progress. Well actually, I haven't made any progress at all. Every step of the way something flaws me. one example is when I attach walls via the 'icon tool' upon a wire frame, each corner of the wall 'overlaps halfway', so that only half the wall overlaps leaving the outside corner with a step if looking down at it as a plan. I have tried using the tool in the combo view that allows the walls to either be shifted off centre, to the left or right' of the wire line but that means that opposing corners shift and overlap in opposite ways to each other; its not uniform. Anyway, now, today, I can't find that tool in the combo view or tree view or property view or anywhere. I have also tried using the rectangle to start and shape the floor plan I need to draw but it appears that those lines of the rectangle can not be changed so that makes no sense to me; the rectangle only appears to be useful if you want a simple cube. If you know how to get around any of these problems I have mentioned, and believe me, this is only one or two, I have mentioned. I would much prefer to use a pen and paper as rudimentary as that may sound, but this is not allowed these days. No one accepts pen drawings anymore. So any real independence has actually been taken away from people who dont have an inclination towards digital technology. its very frustrating to say the least. Any help you can offer in understanding how to get around this problem in the corner of the walls. thanks. please excuse my frustration as I have spent hours today trying to solve the same problem I have had for weeks now.

Yorik... Make videos for the brasilian comunity...

BIM doesn't work in Freecad 2023-08-18 Ifcopenshell can't be installed. Tried everything I could find on the web.

Very good intro to Freecad for Bim and willing to see more videos on use real world use cases! unfortunately the link to the files of the video don't seem to work anymore