It shows the Blender navigation option for Freecad.Interior of 3D house Arduino board imported from Eagle PCB softwareįreeCAD is a general-purpose parametric 3D computer-aided design (CAD) modeler and a building information modeling (BIM) software application with finite element method (FEM) support. In Portuguese but you can setup translate for English. Check the documentation to know more, of follow this osarch discussion thread to keep updated on the progresses. The NativeIFC structure is progressively being integrated into the BIM workbench, and a lot of it is already directly usable by BIM users. This turns FreeCAD the second NativeIFC-enabled authoring application, after BlenderBIM (Both actually share a lot of code).

In parallel to the work being done in FreeCAD itself, many things have happened on the BIM workbench, namely the arrival of a new NativeIFC module, that allows FreeCAD to open, manipulate and save IFC files natively. More about these features and much more can be found in the release notes. The FEM workbench has received a lot of improvements, and is now more and more fit for civil engineering (see this post and the work of Ebrahim).FreeCAD now supports several different DWG converters to import and export DWG files.The BIM layer manager is now in Draft too.Better styling tools for texts and dimensions, which now use an unified structure.A new, easy-to-use section tool that works interactively, and works for Arch/BIM objects too.Nevertheless, this release brings a number of interesting improvements for BIM users, among which are: Toponaming is how we call the problem of unstable reference names in FreeCAD (Edge1 might become Edge5 after a shape recompute), it is the last big issue the development team wants to solve before deeming FreeCAD good for the mythical 1.0 release. This release is mostly there to provide a stable point before implementing Toponaming resolution functionality. Last week, a new stable release of FreeCAD has been published, tagged 0.21.

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