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Thanks Rafael

by Yorik on 06.08.2014

Commenting post 111: Thanks Rafael

Oh yes! There is a LOT of stuff to connect to. I regularly keep an eye on openstudio, but until now it seems a bit fuzzy to me... Lots of data and diagrams, but the sketchup implementation seems still very basic (you cannot use much of your existing models, you must draw new "cubes" only for openstudio). But definitely one day we must attack that. There was a similar project for blender called "BlendME" that was a package of several open-source analysis tools (radiance, openfoam, etc) shaped into a blender plugin. But the project appears to be dead now... Anyway, there are a lot of opensource analysis tools useful for architecture.

My own priority, at the moment, is of course IFC compatibility. With that, we can already rely on external tools to do the rest of the job. But besides that, there is one other area that we already began to attack directly in FreeCAD, which is structural engineering. In structural objects in FreeCAD, we already have implemented the concept of structural nodes. The idea is to be able to export a structural analysis-ready model made of bars and nodes. Software such as pybar ( http://pybar.fr/index.php?page=logiciel-pybar ) will easily be able to take that data and perform structural analysis. Who knows, at some point we might be able to integrate some of it into FreeCAD too.

Anyway, lots of stuff for the future!

by Yorik on 06.08.2014