Very nice renders Yorik, it's always interesting see your work.

En fait si, il y en a même pas mal (voir modernistes, comme Niemeyer par ex.). Dans le cas de cette maison-ci, par contre, c'est un faux toit plat (il y a une toiture métallique derrière). C'est probablement une question de tradition (C'est un mode de construction assez traditionnel en Espagne et au Portugal).

Le toit plat est une très bonne solution, c'est juste que le domaine de la construction est toujours très enraciné aux techniques traditionnelles...

tiens c'est drôle, ici, contrairement aux pays arabes, le toît plat n'est jamais utilisé.

Renderings of a house project

très bonne, l'idée de l'atrium romain. à mon avis, il devrait y avoir moyen d'améliorer encore le fait de creuser dans le sol, pour avoir des pièces plus fraîches (le premier étage pourrait se trouver à moitié enfoncé dans la terre.

Esboços para uma casa

Aqui está uma proposta de casa que fiz com a Maíra um tempo atrás. Está baseada nos seguintes conceitos:

1. Não há necessidade de construir 4 pavimentos, como pedido inicialmente. O terreno é bastante grande (760m²) para poder fazer algo mais baixo.
2. Nos pareceu melhor adotar uma configuração de "páteo" (os cômodos em volta de um jardim central) em vez de "torre" (os cômodos empilhados), porque daqui alguns anos terão vizinhos e as fachadas da casa estarão olhando para as paredes dos vizinhos, e também para aproveitar melhor o terreno grande e o belo paisagismo que daria para fazer nele.
3. Na região nordeste, devido ao calor, os cômodos mais agradáveis são os que ficam adossados ao solo, porque a inércia do solo mantém o frescor. Nos parece melhor usar esses lugares privilegiados para quartos do que para carros.
4. O páteo pode virar um tipo de "vale verde", formando taludes com a terra retirada das escavações, reaproveitando ela.
5. Trabalhando em meio-níveis, a gente consegue um projeto muito paisagístico com pouquíssimas escadas e que fica muito baixo (a cota máxima está em 4.50m em relação à rua)

Fizemos então alguns desenhos de uma solução que imaginamos para a casa:



Este é uma vista geral da proposta. Botamos muito foco na vegetação, porque o terreno é grande e representa uma oportunidade muito boa de fazer um projeto muito integrado à natureza. Os blocos que contem os diferentes cômodos são protegidos por lajes ou telhados verdes, e tudo se abre para dentro, em volta de um "vale verde" central. Os carros ficam simplesmente abrigados em baixo de uma cobertura, liberando os espaços mais interessantes para usos melhores.



A imagem acima mostra a implantação (a rua está a esquerda). 1 é a entrada dos carros, 2 o "vale verde", 3 a aba principal, 4 a cobertura para os carros



A imagem acima mostra a entrada, a cobertura para os carros (que pode ser leve, metálica ou madeira), e no fundo, a entrada da casa. Atras da cobertura dos carros aparece a "torre" com a suíte principal



Acima está a planta do térreo. 1 é o estacionamento coberto para 4 carros, 2 contém área de serviço, lavabo, etc, 3 é uma cozinha semi-fechada que dá no 4, sala de jantar e 5, sala de estar. Todos esses espaços estão na cota 0, ou seja no nível da rua. O 6 é um estar íntimo, situado meio-nível mais baixo (cota -1.50).



Acima está a planta do andar superior, situado na cota +1.50 (meio-nível para cima). O único espaço a este nível é a suíte principal (5). As janelas ficam em cima das coberturas 3 e 4, que podem também ser telhados verdes (alias, isso providenciaria uma isolação térmica fantástica)



Este é a planta do subsolo (nível -1 em relação à rua, ou +/- cota -2.50). 1, 3, 4 e 5 são quartos, 2 são banheiros e 6 é um espaço aberto de convivência. Se chega aqui passando pela sala íntima (n°6 na planta do térreo). Todos os espaços estão abertos para o "vale verde" e nenhum quarto olha diretamente num outro quarto. Os banheiros recebem luz e ventilação pelo teto (eles estão um pouco fora da projeção dos pavimentos superiores)



Este é a vista do "vale verde", com a sala intima + suíte principal a esquerda, o bloco principal com quartos, cozinha, salas de jantar e estar a direita. Entre os dois terão as escadas.

Hi Khiraly,

- Moving meshes doesn't work, indeed. Meshes were made as a kind of test object, at the beginning of FreeCAD, and were never very finished, so I never took much care of them in the Draft module. Better use directly Part object, much more powerful. I should nevethless add that when I have time...
- Freezes when adding new Part object is strange! I've never seen that before. Here everything works fine... It looks like the error comes from OpenCasCade, I wonder if it could be because yours is 6.2 (We're at 6.3 now)? Next Ubuntu release which will be out in a couple of days will have 6.3, maybe it'll solve the problem... Otherwise, since I'm not a big expert of OpenCasCade, it might be better to ask the other devs on the FreeCAD forum: http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/free-cad/index.php

ok, moving a mesh with the 2d drafting module move command, does not really work.
It creates an another object (if you click on "copy"), but it does not appear on the canvas, just it creates a Cube1 node in the treeview. Also the data does not contain Mesh, as the original Cube contained.

So it seems this functionality does not work.

Best regards,
Khiraly

Yorick: do you have an idea why parts can not be created? I mean real parts not some mesh object (so real cylinder, cone, sphere, etc), to be able to use FreeCAD for some real CAD model.

Part->parametric-> box WORKS
Part->parametric->cylinder FREEZE (forcing quit, results the following line in gdb:
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
[Switching to Thread 0xb3136710 (LWP 20892)]
0xb1ce0d32 in CSLib_Class2d::InternalSiDans () from /usr/lib/libTKMath-6.2.so
the full backtrace:
http://pastebin.com/m4c7aa6fc
)
Part->parametric->sphere FREEZE
backtrace: http://pastebin.com/m299814d5

Part->parametric->Cone
backtrace: http://pastebin.com/m3b939a2b

Part->Parametric->Torus
backtrace: http://pastebin.com/m686b39f4

Hope it helps something

Hi Khiraly,
Fantastic! Thanks for pointing me the errors, I updated the compile instructions too, so it could help someone else...
Moving or rotating an object can now be done via the 2D drafting module. Just select a couple of objects, and hit move or rotate. If you want to move in other directions than horizontally you must unlock the z coordinate. The rotate command only works horizontally at the moment, but I'll upgrade that as soon as I have a little time.

Ok, adding Part->parametric->cylinder just freeze the FreeCAD for hard.

Ok, I have launched it, many new featured appeared.

I finally was able to turn solid<->wireframe individually.
Property->Display Mode -> Shaded

However I still can not figure out how to move an object or rotate it.
Any pointers?

> Also I need libode1-dev, if not make fails at 99%. Pretty annoying;-)

/home/XXX/Asztal/down/freecad/trunk/src/Mod/Assembly/App/AppAssembly.cpp:27:22: error: ode/ode.h: No such file or directory.

Also I need libode1-dev, if not make fails at 99%. Pretty annoying;-)

sudo apt-get install libode0-dev

> # After downloading, in the same terminal, issue "cd freecad"
> to go to the freecad directory

"cd freecad/trunk"

I will report back, when I could successfully built.

Best regards,
Khiraly

Btw, how to enable wireframe mode? (instead of plain colors?)

And how to change an object's transparency?

Thank you for the compilation guide, I will try it out asap

Hi Khiraly,
I just made a small compile instruction below. Creating a debian package is not really necessary for home compilations, because FreeCAD is all contained in one single directory, so there is no harm in simply deleting it.

My shortcut for the rectangle tool is B (for Box)

Short instructions for compiling current FreeCAD svn version on ubuntu

Be aware that the svn version is the version we are working on, so it might contain bugs or even fail to compile.

1. In case of problem, the complete and detailed instructions are here


2. Install the following packages: build-essential, python, libcoin60-dev, libsoqt4-dev, libxerces-c2-dev, libboost-dev, libboost-date-time-dev, libboost-filesystem-dev, libboost-graph-dev, libboost-iostreams-dev, libboost-program-options-dev, libboost-serialization-dev, libboost-signals-dev, libboost-regex-dev, libgts-dev, libqt4-dev, qt4-dev-tools, python2.5-dev, libcv-dev, libhighgui-dev, python-opencv, libopencascade-dev, python-qt4, libode1-dev, subversion, cmake


3. Install the pivy package manually from here, because it is still not in ubuntu repository


4. Get the FreeCAD source, by pasting the following line in a terminal: svn co https://free-cad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/free-cad/trunk freecad


5. After downloading, in the same terminal, issue "cd freecad"
to go to the freecad directory

6. Issue "cmake ." to create the compilation files


7. Issue "make" to compile FreeCAD


8. After compiling, issue "./bin/FreeCAD" to run FreeCAD. You can also create a shortcut to your freecad/bin/FreeCAD file.


9. All FreeCAD is contained in its source directory, so to uninstall, simply remove that directory.

Yorick: Thanks for the tip!
I had install python-qt4 in plus to get it working (and also restart FreeCAD), but other then that, no caveats.

What shortcut do you use for creating rectangle? (r is already occupied by rotate). I try to mimick your exact setup.

Could you please write shortly how to create a debian package from freecad? No need to be detailed, just the commands. (and also if you remember what packages needs to be installed beforehand).

I cant wait until the new release. It looks so promising ...

Hmm indeed, I just checked, the 0.8 jaunty package lacks the 2D Drafting module. How crazy that nobody saw it before!!!
Anyway, it's easy to fix. Download the 0.8 source package:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/free-cad/files/FreeCAD%20Linux/FreeCAD%200.8%20R2237/freecad_0.8.2237.orig.tar.gz/download
Then, extract it, then copy the "Draft" folder (inside src/Mod) into either /usr/lib/freecad/Mod/ either your_home_folder/.FreeCAD/Mod/
That's it, you should now have the 2D Drafting module available.
Note that the tutorial can refer to features and tools that are not in the 0.8 version... Just one or two month patience!
Cheers
Yorik

> the freecad program should it include by default

I have been thinking at 2D drafting module of course.

By the way, in workbench, I dont have "2d Drafting", just only "Drawing".
It seems I really miss it. How to install it?

> It seems cadkey really fits my needs,

Doh, of course freecad:
"It seems FREECAD really fits my needs,"