OSArch Community

Welcome to the OSArch Community - Introduce yourself here.

  1. M by Moult on 3 Feb 2020, edited 22 Apr 2025 # +7 votes

    The Open-Source Architecture Community brings together like-minded users and developers who share a common goal: that the built environment can be designed, constructed, operated, and recycled with free software, increased transparency, and a more ethical approach.

    We encourage the community to share what they're working on, use more free software in what is currently a proprietary-dominated market, and learn more about what's out there.

    If you're new to the community, please "Say Hello!" and post an introduction telling us who you are, which part of the industry you're in, and what you're working on!

    Let's change the industry together.

  1. N by nikitron on 5 Feb 2020 # +1 votes

    I'm in.

    Nice to see such light interface

  1. A by agron on 11 Feb 2020 # +1 votes

    I am happy to be here

    Good work Dion

  1. M by Moult on 11 Feb 2020 #

    Welcome @nikitron and @agron !

  1. J by johanntuckler on 9 Mar 2020 # +2 votes

    Hello group! BIM Manager from Portland, OR USA. I have been in the AECO industry for about 18 years. I am really passionate about promoting BIM as well as making the training and career path more accessible to our up and coming generations. Please to join, Thank you.

  1. L by L_31M on 26 Mar 2020 # +3 votes

    Hi to all, let's BIM together!!!

  1. M by Moult on 26 Mar 2020 #

    Welcome @L_31M ! Hope you can join us for the 4th of April monthly meetup!

  1. B by Buttar on 31 Mar 2020 # +3 votes

    Hello everybody,

    I am a designer and I contribute to the development of BIM in public transport infrastructure projects.

    unfortunately I am not a developer

  1. J by joselaks on 5 Apr 2020 # +5 votes

    Hello everyone, my name is José Laks, I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    I am an architect and for many years I developed commercial software for construction companies.

    I am a postgraduate teacher in BIM at the University of Buenos Aires and I have a postgraduate in BIM at the University of Palermo.

    For 5 years I have been director of infrastructure at the National University of José C. Paz and together with other universities we are in full implementation of BIM, unfortunately with Revit.

    Together with my colleagues from other universities we are hoping to replace Revit with open source tools. Will it be possible in the medium term? About the ways to replace Revit with open source tools I will start another post.

    I am very happy that this space exists, thanks Dion!

  1. I by izerman on 9 Apr 2020 # +1 votes

    Hi people! I have just discovered the project. I'm so excited to collaborating on this, if I could help. Thanks!!

  1. M by Moult on 9 Apr 2020 #

    Welcome to the community @izerman ! You might like to join next month's online meetup :) There's a thread with the details.

  1. D by DADA_universe on 10 Apr 2020 # +1 votes

    Hi all, an architect from Lagos, Nigeria here. Sorely disappointed in myself for running from Blender after first encountering it 12 years ago (yeah, all that talk about a painful user experience), I'm now doing penance by soaking up all I can and adopting it for an end to end pipe line for my work. Encountered FreeCad as well 4 years ago and ran....resigned to the reality that I'll most likely run back sometime, but currently very happy just seeing what more I can do with Blender. Haven't done anything with BIM, not keen on Revit, but hoping to integrate BlenderBIM and that's why I'm here. I'm also a creative technologist so I can copy and paste some python code here and there , but my eyes glaze over when it gets too hectic!

  1. J by Jesusbill on 10 Apr 2020 # +1 votes

    Great to see you here @DADA_universe ! Welcome on board. An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it :)

  1. M by Moult on 10 Apr 2020 # +1 votes

    Welcome @DADA_universe ! Be sure to post if anything isn't quite working and we'll fix it!

  1. M by Marcus on 13 Apr 2020 # +3 votes

    Hi guys and girls, I'm Marcus from Brazil and its great to know that such a place exists, with so many people interested and working in a smarter, free and open source BIM alternative. I have been teaching cad for some time and revit since 2012 at a Brazilian public university. I want to follow more closely what's going on to BlenderBIM because I believe the interface between education, design process and aec must have a different approach. Despite the fact my python knowledge is not enough to help in coding, I am willing to collaborate somehow. Thanks Dion for sharing the link at fosstodom, congratulations to you and everyone here by this initiative.

  1. M by Moult on 13 Apr 2020 # +1 votes

    Welcome @Marcus ! The best way to collaborate in my opinion is to try and use the software :) It is very early stages, so the more people use tools like the BlenderBIM Add-on, FreeCAD, BIMTester, IfcOpenShell, Ifc2CA, etc etc, the better! They can test, share what they're working on, report bugs, and suggest improvements. We are hard at work developing new features and fixes every day :)

  1. Y by yorik on 19 Apr 2020 # +5 votes

    Let's start using the #osarch hashtag when posting relevant stuff on social networks? It will make it easy to find...

  1. M by Moult on 19 Apr 2020 #

    Agree, I'm going to start using #osarch!

  1. C by ChubbyQuark on 23 Apr 2020 # +2 votes

    Hi All,

    Great to be here.

    I'm new to blender but not the industry. This is a great project, looking forward to getting involved. I come from an Arch./design background, typically working from from briefing --> Conceptual Design --> Spatial Co-ordination.

    Really impressive work so far Dion, hope I can help out and collaborate in some way.

  1. X by xzay on 24 Apr 2020 # +2 votes

    Hello! Привет! My name is Mikhail. I am from Moscow, Russa. I am 3d artist and interior designer.

    I use/learn Blender ( and 3d max( ).

    I will be happy to help the community.

  1. P by paullee on 2 May 2020 # +3 votes

    Hi, I am Paul, @paullee in the FreeCAD forum. Look forward to @Yorik presentation and contribution to the discussion :)

  1. B by baswein on 5 May 2020 # +6 votes

    Hi I am Bas a landscape designer and planner for my firm Regenerative Design Group in New England as well as the instructor of the Digital Design portion of the Conway School For Landscape Design and Planning. We have been using opensource tools as a part of our design practice the last 10 years with the largest impact coming from QGIS and we would like use more OS tools for many ideological and practical reasons. I am not a developer but am a heavy user and educator and am very excited about the possibilities of OSARCH and the movement that I am seeing in this space. In particular I see the landscape BIM software as being underdeveloped with no commercial software doing a good job and I see that as an opportunity for open source to fill the gap.

  1. M by Moult on 5 May 2020 #

    Welcome @baswein ! I have no experience at all in landscape BIM, and so if you could become a heavy user of Blender and / or FreeCAD and advise us on what needs to be done (features to build / fixes to be made / workflows to perfect) I would be very, very appreciative!

  1. M by magicalcloud_75 on 5 May 2020 #

    Great Bas! As a civil structure engineer it will be great to share some knowlegde and experienxe in Qgis dxf Blender workflows.

  1. K by krande on 13 May 2020, edited 13 May 2020 # +4 votes

    Hi all! Happy to have found this community! To be brief, my background is within structural engineering focused on the simulation\analysis (FEM) side of things. For the last 6 years I have been experimenting (whilst learning to code) with software development revolving around the interoperability between CAD and FEM, with the goal of making the design and analysis process more software agnostic. To get a sense of my day-to-day design – analysis development workflow, I can mention that my usual workday consist of CAD software such as Aveva Everything 3D, Navisworks Simulate (and lately also Blender, Xbim and BimServer). Regarding analysis, for me its using Abaqus and some industry-specific tools such as Usfos and Sesam. My programming language of choice is python, but I usually make do with whatever gets the job done. Some technologies that I have found play a bigger and bigger role in my software development experiments are docker, Kubernetes, Devops and Terraform. I am located in Norway working for a company called Aibel (which is an engineering, procurement and construction company in the oil, gas and renewables sector). I certainly think there are areas that I can contribute on, and I am happy to help in any way I can!

    Best Regards

    Kristoffer

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