@duncan you can do what you want, it doesn't matter to me (humility is not about looking kind but be ignorant)
@bernd I'm not a programmer, and I work based on my own priorities, like you all too, so I shared the idea, and it's up to you contribute or not
Dion wants anything to be under the umbrella of IfcOpenShell and FreeCAD, and I don't count myself in these two groups (until you all want to follow your own views)
At some point new technology vs industry standard may also be a dead end.
Given the time required by industry, political authority and average user to adopt new technology, anything new may take decades to realy emerge, until then we must rely on adopted standards.
Once bim workflow polished, FreeCad will be suited for more than 95% of architects - the vaste majority - small agency with small "not so fancy" projects, and for those people reducing license fee to 0 and using open formats ensuring long term conservation will be a "no brainer" choice.
@stephen_l Why Revit is successful? because it has a user-friendly interface, Autodesk uses "Theory of Laziness" in all its products:
They're available everywhere, they're easy to learn and to use, and a lot of characteristics related to that theory and other strategies
FreeCAD is based on CATIA (which in some points is an advantage) and is not user-friendly for "architects" it's maybe normal for some engineers from PLM industry (which FreeCAD lost this area, this is why wants introduce itself as an architecture tool) but it's not for architects
Also, personally I don't see anything about AI, automation and control, "KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT", simulation, and many things in it
If some companies like Arup has started to use CATIA more than before, it's because they want "Knowledge-based" solutions that even Revit and generally Autodesk product don't have, and they want advanced simulations (based on Modelica), ...
If 95% just want 3d model a building, and just this, then yes, FreeCAD could be used IF people feel it's good to use
@duncan said:
I shared the solution, the idea that will completely change the industry, but few can or will realize what I shared?
Remember @ReD_CoDE we talked about humility a few months ago?
Communication might be more of the issue, I mean, if he's right, he's right, whether there's humility in his rightness or not. But if it's a struggle parsing the real meaning from what he says and requests for clarification are rebuffed while he's at the same time insisting on community participation in (or at the very least, adoption of) his ideas, we end up with a loop that leads nowhere. I'm interested in what @ReD_CoDE has to say but there's a lot that goes with it that makes it read like bad code. Maybe it works, but it will be a pain (for a community) to maintain. In his defense though, Linus Torvalds's abrasiveness never stopped Linux from growing, so maybe it's a thing one just needs to get accustomed to!
@Moult said:
- Created a test server, currently very incomplete, with test file repos available ...
That looks pretty cool what does the server do and how it works?
@bernd it tests imports and exports and creates an image snapshot. It's still highly incomplete, though.
@Moult said:
@bernd it tests imports and exports and creates an image snapshot. It's still highly incomplete, though.
I may interested anyway. How does a user trigger a test? What is it based on? Is it opensource?
Not possible to trigger a test. It's a bunch of scripts run by Jenkins. If it matures more than just a small experimental script, I'll open source it. Right now it's too small to bother.
a kind of our own, open "certification" system is something we've been working on extensively with @theoryshaw .. basically some suite of tests, that could be applied to ifc files imported and exported by apps. But it's a highly complex topic, a simple wall can be written in ifc in hundreds of ways, from the simplest to the most complex form. All the "human" definition needed there is the real difficulty
IFC Software Certification is changing.
Read about it here: https://technical.buildingsmart.org/services/certification/
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