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Hi Rafael,

by Yorik on 23.07.2014

Commenting post 89: Hi Rafael,

Thanks for the input. Yes, I agree 100% with you. Of course until the moment we have robots to make buildings, we need drawings to communicate with the building team. And I don't realistically believe we can live without 2D either. But I also think that the way we do 2D is changing rapidly. More and more, we draw less 2D from scratch, and more and more we generate 2D from other kind of data. We will progressively need less autocad and more 3D or BIM.

This of course won't suppress the 2D completely. If you look at a building plan, there is actually only about max. 50% geometry, and the rest is other stuff, mainly annotations, dimensions and symbols. All these annotations are in fact as important (or more important) than the linework itself.

But, if you look at it that way, what you need becomes very different: What you need is not so much to draw a lot of linework, but rather to adapt/fix/modify a generated linework, and to put annotations, dimensions and symbols on that linework. This changes considerably the scope you need from your authoring application.

To resume, of course I also want to be able to produce deep, complex technical drawings. And if we can do that right inside FreeCAD, better. But I also don't think the way to go is do that "the old way". Well I'm not totally sure yet of the best path to follow, but that's where the fun lies: We can experiment and build our own workflow!

by Yorik on 23.07.2014