BlenderBIM Add-on mentions (7)

• Ask HN: How does modern FreeCAD compare with Solidworks?

  FreeCAD suffers from a serious case of open source disease. In theory it can do a lot. In practice its interface is 'unique', its cognitive model is a dog's breakfast, its CAM offering is weak, its command line automation is brittle and poorly documented, and you are going to spend more time solving problems for the code than for yourself. I have directly managed teams of CAD people for most of the last decade.... - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• What are emerging/promising areas of tech to get into today?

  - steel manufacturing can derive quite a bit of information from the IFC geometry, like parametric cross section profiles and where to drill for bolt holes and using which diameter And then there is the ultimate end goal according to some to be able to exchange all parametric and constraint information from the native model. But this is still quite far out. The challenge for future editions of the spec is to... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Do Mechanical Engineers also use Blender 3D?

  I know there is a Blender BIM addon so I guess in theory it might be useful to those doing building services? Source: 12 months ago

• Wine be like...

  Blenderbim is in early development, but the current state is very promising: Https://blenderbim.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

• AIA Should Advocate For Opensource BIM

  And of course, if you want to help testing during its alpha development: https://blenderbim.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

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