Hi folks!
I'm Gonzalo from Zurich. I am part of the team working on COMPAS (an open source python framework for AEC), more specifically, I focus quite a bit of my time on the robotic fabrication packages of compas.
It made me very happy this morning to discover this community exists!!
Cheers
Hi @gonzalocasas looks like you are doing some interesting stuff right there!
Had come across this project recently but didn't have the chance to look more closely. I hope you will have the opportunity to showcase some of this work in the threads sometime.
Welcome @agonzalezesteve ! I think you'd be perfect to help test the upcoming Ladybug and Blender integration and suggest improvements / report bugs!
Welcome @gonzalocasas ! Your package looks amazing! You should definitely give a talk about it in an upcoming meetup!
Hello Guys. I am Chun from Hong Kong. Working as a BIM technician in an architectural firm. also a Python script writer and currently exploring the integration of BIM & IoT.
I can't express how happy I am when I found out this project because I am currently a prisoner of Revit and the limitations of this software are really annoying which lead me to use some tricks or write some Dynamo script to bypass or workaround the problems. I funded this project and I hope BlenderBIM someday can be adopt by the industry and be a competitor of Revit.
Welcome @chunchk ! If you're exploring BIM and IoT, you may be interested in this project: https://github.com/vi-sense/vi-sense
If you'd like to learn how to apply your Python knowledge to OpenBIM, I might also recommend this article: https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=IfcOpenShell_code_examples
( more here: https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=AEC_Free_Software_directory )
Please help join us develop and test software for AEC :)
Hi All!
Im an architect from Sweden, working in a large architecture firm. Im so excited with all your work and I keep feeling bad for not learning to code in anyway during my life. I would really like to contribute to awesome stuff like this.
I have been working a LOT in Revit, want to get out of it, also working in sketchup, Rhino etc.. but started to learn blender this spring and now i just cant stop using it. Especially with Stephens ArchiCad and blenderbim its so powerful that i don’t rly know how my colleagues will ever grasp it all in the nearest future. But Im trying :) .
Currently i’m hijacking projects and put them in blender instead, just to make people see what free software is capable of and that our big money spent on various softwares that costs a lot, should rather be spent on hiring more architects and also coders that could help with projects like these..
Anyhow, i will be sticking around a lot. Listening to all of you incredible people, trying to learn. Maybe one day I can also help in some way.
Cheers!
Welcome @CGR and join the party!
Hola! Mi Nombre es Yoel Reyes, soy un joven arquitecto recién graduado de Republica Dominicana, estoy ansioso de conocer esta tecnología BIM
Hi community!
My full name is Thomas Kumlehn from Germany and I'm a fan of Blender and BuildingSMART.
I'm an experienced developer in both python and C++ and would like to add interactive AR to BIM projects.
Either from within Blender or later also from generic openBIM ifc files.
What version of Blender should I start with?
I run both macOS 10.15 and Win10
Welcome @joelreyesrod ! You will find the Spanish category has been set up :) You can access it here: https://community.osarch.org/categories/espa%C3%B1ol-spanish
Welcome @pixelpartner ! It would be awesome to have more developers join on board! The BlenderBIM Add-on works for Blender 2.8 and above, and it would make sense to always start with the latest version, 2.9 :) The BlenderBIM Add-on and FreeCAD are both heavy in Python and C++, and the IFC library IfcOpenShell that both projects use are also C++ based with Python bindings. Please let me know if there is anything I can help with, or if you need a tour of the codebase.
Hello everyone,
I'm Victor from Brazil but currently based in Denmark studying architectural engineering. I have a background on structural engineering but also enjoy some coding and geometry problems on my free time. I am aware of open BIM initiatives for a while but just now took the decision to dedicate myself towards it. Hope to learn a lot from you!
@victorwanderley where are you studying? Aalborg?
@Jesusbill would you like to try and arrange for @gonzalocasas to talk about the COMPAS project? Maybe the wiki can list upcoming and 'sometime soon' keynote topics? https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Monthly_Meetup
@gonzalocasas I've added COMPAS to the AEC software directory https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=AEC_Free_Software_directory#CAD_.2F_BIM_Design_Development
@duncan I will start a thread on this topic and we can have an "upcoming meetups" section in the wiki for confirmed or plausible presentations
Hello! My name is Eliel, I'm an Electrical Engeneer from Brazil. My primary work is to develop electrical projects for office buildings. We use a lot of BIM tecnology (mostly Revit/CAD) to develop our projects. Asside from the electrical projects per se, I also do some developing on add-ons for Revit (mostly python, but also on dynamo) for me and for my colleagues when I get the time.
As a enthusiast of open source and Linux, I try to make all I can of my work on Linux, and when I can't I use a virtual machine to use the softwares (Revit included) that have no support on Linux. So, I'd love to see the BIM world to become open source.
I'll read more about the initiative, and try to help if I can.
@Eliel ! Welcome to OSArch! I think you may be our first electrical engineer! It would be great to build FOSS software that contains all the features required for electrical :)
@Moult said:
@Eliel ! Welcome to OSArch! I think you may be our first electrical engineer! It would be great to build FOSS software that contains all the features required for electrical :)
My Dream!!
@duncan said:
@victorwanderley where are you studying? Aalborg?
Hi Duncan, I'm actually at DTU in Copenhagen.
Hi everyone here
I have already posted something here; and now I realize that I have not introduced myself. My name is Sabu Francis. I am from India. I am 59 years old. I am an architect at heart, and also a software developer, researcher and a teacher. The internal image I carry about myself is that of an architect -- I got into software developer as I didnt seem to have a choice. Though I do extensive coding in several different languages; and several domains, I am totally engaged with the issues of the process of architectural design -- rather than the product of architectural design (There are already lots of people in the latter area)
The central question that I have been working on for last 30+ years is that of representation of architecture or to put in another way; the linguistic aspects of architecture. It took the writing of a design software to put my small insights about lingustics in architecture to give some teeth to abstract theories.
As Steven Covey said; we all solve problems twice: Once in our mind and once in the real world out there. In architecture specfically, we now need multiple minds to get problems in our field solved. But then one could ask what are the symbolic equivalents of "alphabets" that other domains have sorted out, in our field. For e.g. the mathematicians have symbols such as +, -, / and * (and so on). No mathematicians would ever contradict those. But for some reason; our field is bereft of discussions on what constitutes our "alphabets" I discovered one set, which I use in the software that I developed for designing (and one of the reason I am here, is because i am about to open source my work) It is called TAD (The Architect's Desktop)
It uses a fractal kind of "alphabets" which can be used to describe a building right from very early stages of design all the way to how much detail you want to get into. My office has done lots of project; both large and small. Two research projects were also done using TAD as the modeling framework, along with IIT Bombay.
But TAD did not come from any academic environment -- It came from the practice of a small office in what was then the largest city being constructed in the world; Navi Mumbai (Satellite city of Mumbai ... but now maybe some Chinese city has overtaken it) ... and TAD seems to have stayed the distance -- right from DOS days to now on Windows (and other system which has WINE)
I am the architect of the non-railway projects of Konkan Railway Corporation -- a quite a demanding client, with quite complex requirements. I feel like "Rip-van-winkle" here as people are doing lots of fascinating intricate work. Though my sprint cycles are quite short, in some areas I go quite irritatingly slow --as I have many questions and I believe in minimalistic designs (something like "minimallly invasive surgery") . I hope that the association with learned members here would be a win-win one
Hi everyone here
I have already posted something here; and now I realize that I have not introduced myself. My name is Sabu Francis. I am from India. I am 59 years old. I am an architect at heart, and also a software developer, researcher and a teacher. The internal image I carry about myself is that of an architect -- I got into software developer as I didnt seem to have a choice. Though I do extensive coding in several different languages; and several domains, I am totally engaged with the issues of the process of architectural design -- rather than the product of architectural design (There are already lots of people in the latter area)
The central question that I have been working on for last 30+ years is that of representation of architecture or to put in another way; the linguistic aspects of architecture. It took the writing of a design software to put my small insights about lingustics in architecture to give some teeth to abstract theories.
As Steven Covey said; we all solve problems twice: Once in our mind and once in the real world out there. In architecture specfically, we now need multiple minds to get problems in our field solved. But then one could ask what are the symbolic equivalents of "alphabets" that other domains have sorted out, in our field. For e.g. the mathematicians have symbols such as +, -, / and * (and so on). No mathematicians would ever contradict those. But for some reason; our field is bereft of discussions on what constitutes our "alphabets" I discovered one set, which I use in the software that I developed for designing (and one of the reason I am here, is because i am about to open source my work) It is called TAD (The Architect's Desktop)
It uses a fractal kind of "alphabets" which can be used to describe a building right from very early stages of design all the way to how much detail you want to get into. My office has done lots of project; both large and small. Two research projects were also done using TAD as the modeling framework, along with IIT Bombay.
But TAD did not come from any academic environment -- It came from the practice of a small office in what was then the largest city being constructed in the world; Navi Mumbai (Satellite city of Mumbai ... but now maybe some Chinese city has overtaken it) ... and TAD seems to have stayed the distance -- right from DOS days to now on Windows (and other system which has WINE)
I am the architect of the non-railway projects of Konkan Railway Corporation -- a quite a demanding client, with quite complex requirements. I feel like "Rip-van-winkle" here as people are doing lots of fascinating intricate work. Though my sprint cycles are quite short, in some areas I go quite irritatingly slow --as I have many questions and I believe in minimalistic designs (something like "minimallly invasive surgery") . I hope that the association with learned members here would be a win-win one
Hi Everyone I am looking for possible work flows with Freecad, Belnder, Librecad, Qcad.
Hi I have looked into this, as a building designer for over 22 years.
I am proficient in the following programs.
Archicad, Visual, Building, Draftsight 2d, NanoCad, (Autocad alternative), Revit Architecture, Chief Architect, Turbocad, & Revit.
My 3D workflow consists Chief Architect, Visual Building Aus, Sketchup , or Blender .
My 2D I use NanoCad v5 ( Like Autocad LT) its based on Intellicad programming ( Autocad owned it at one stage but was forced NOT to close it down by the US Government, so Programming was released as paid OS etc...) DWG Native FREE for commercial use. It does have some limitations but so far so good.
Blender, is really impressing & lots of people using it .
I am looking at using OS programs but struggle to find like minded people to use the OS programs in any collaboration Field.
I will hopefully find people similar to myself On this Community.
@JenuJacob said:
Hi everyone!
I am here precisely because of this!
I am an architect and I (like many, I assume) have invested a lot of time in my professional career learning software which I could never afford to pay individually (luckily my workplaces could!). Sketchup going the subscription route has done it for me. It is time I took FOSS seriously and currently, it seems Blender and BlenderBIM is what I should be concentrating on!
However, there is this problem of learning Blender. Working with SketchUp has let's say, made me lazy and spoilt, and I am at a loss for where to start! I am pretty sure a lot of people would be feeling the same way. So can someone point out some good courses online where I could start with Blender (geared towards architecture)? Sketchup and Layout have pretty much been useful for my needs (as in I never needed advanced BIM capability, just basic annotations and dimensioning with dynamic sections and plans etc).
Yes I agree.
@bruno_perdigao said:
Hello everyone!
My name is Bruno and I am an architect from Brazil. I work at my own small studio since 2011 and have been working with several different kind of projects (residential and institucional, public and private). My design tools used to be the combo AutoCAD and Sketchup, because it was the most popular workflow with architects in my region and also what it was taught in college, but I have been using Archicad for the past couple of years. I have always been a free software enthusiastic and is great to see this growing in the AEC industry. Recently I started teaching at the Architecture School and I realized even more the importance of free software for students and sigle practioners who cannot afford the standard market softwares. I am willing to make the free software workflow for architecture design as one of my research subjects and hope to contributte with some feedbacks.
Hi Bruno , great to see this. Some programs to consider for your students will be, Librecad (OS) (Cross platform), Qcad (OS) (Cross platform) paid and free, DoubleCAD XT FREE version ( Similar to Turbocad) , naoCADv5 is free, and in my view is closest to Autocad, Blender , and Freecad.
There are many more to choose from.
Hi all!
My name is Laurens, I am from the Netherlands. I just graduated from my master's studies Geomatics for the Built Environment at the TU Delft and am now working at a research institute in Slovenia. In my studies we basically used all sorts of geographical data, to do something useful with it. I now will be working on BIM and therefore am exploring what is 'out' there. Areas of expertise up til now revolve around GIS, point clouds, 3D city models (CityGML) and 3D analysis in general. I learned to use Blender as a hobby this summer, but hopefully something even more fruitful will come out :)
Welcome @JosephLom ! It's still very early days and we're still building the software, so we're really happy for you to join us on this journey!
Welcome @LaurensJN ! If you're with TU Delft, maybe say hello to @aothms ! You will be happy to hear that the BlenderBIM Add-on supports georeferencing in IFC! @aothms has also done great work around point clouds and HDF5 storage of IFC data, so perhaps there may be some synergies there.
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