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Yes. FreeCAD is a slow application, made for precise detailing. When you start a project with no idea, and need...

by Yorik on 15.09.2015

Commenting post 115: Yes. FreeCAD is a slow application, made for precise detailing. When you start a project with no idea, and need to go fast (you don't know if the project will succeed, you need to watch how much time you spend on it), you better stick with something that allows you to quickly explore many iterations (start from idea 1, try a bit further, becomes 1a, 1b, then you see it doesn't go anywhere, go back and start idea 2, etc...)

This would be highly unefficient in FreeCAD. But Blender is perfect for that kind of task, and allows you to go very fast between these different versions, keeping what's good in one, testing additional ideas, etc.

Basically Blender and FreeCAD represent two different, opposite but both indispensable sides of architecture work... For me you cannot work without one of these sides, and often, trying to do both in one process (like most BIM apps try to do), is loosing some of your freedom. Nowhere else you'll have the freedom and power that a simple mesh modeler like Blender or Sketchup can offer. The whole issue, is how to transfer things from one side to the other, during the project development.

But that is the whole difficulty of doing architecture: How to transform your genial but abstract primary idea into a final concrete, limited, buildable result...

by Yorik on 15.09.2015