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by Cyril on 24 Jan 2021
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@bitacovir said:
Analysis and Simulation Directory
- MESH GENERATOR AND SCIENTIFIC DATA VISUALISATION
Scientific data visualization ok but why mesh generator ?
- STRUCTURAL, THERMAL AND CFD ANALYSIS
I do not understand this category. CFD is used in multiple field and would in my opinion deserves its own category.
About Thermal Analysis you mean material resistance or something like this related to temperature ? Because when I read thermal analysis I see a specific field of energy analysis so I di not understand why it is not linked to energy analysis.
- TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIAN ANALYSIS
I agree with last 3 categories.
As @duncan said many software are overlapping between categories. I think we should keep 1 category but add a column for specific fields to allow to order by a specific field or alternatively use a tag system.
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by bitacovir on 2 Feb 2021, edited 2 Feb 2021
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FOSDEM21 VIDEO presentation. A (very) quick overview of libre mechanical software.
I think there are some software suitable for AEC industry.
https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/libre_mech_overview/
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by bitacovir on 22 Feb 2021
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In the Free Software Directory we have PyFlow link in the CAD/BIM category. PyFlow is referring to a general purpose library and no to a CAD application. We should delete it. I know there is an use of this library in a FreeCAD workbench project but not fully operative yet. At any case, that workbench is a different project with another link.
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by stephen_l on 2 Mar 2021
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What about categorize game engine under "visualisation toolkits" along with ifc.js things ?
In aec industry you typically send models to game engine to build 3d web walkthrough / high end real time immersive experiences.
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by bitacovir on 6 Mar 2021
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Another Addon for photogrammetry in Blender:
Blender-Addon-Photgrammetry-Importer (MIT License)
https://blender-addon-photogrammetry-importer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
https://github.com/SBCV/Blender-Addon-Photogrammetry-Importer
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by bitacovir on 6 Mar 2021
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Why Meshroom was deleted from the software list?
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by brunopostle on 6 Mar 2021
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@bitacovir said:
Why Meshroom was deleted from the software list?
Possibly because it depends on the non-free nvidia kernel module?
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by bitacovir on 6 Mar 2021
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@brunopostle said:
Possibly because it depends on the non-free nvidia kernel module?
You can use meshroom to complete the reconstruction without nvidia GPU (no best quality but...)
https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/wiki/Draft-Meshing
Also, you can use meshroom for other tasks that don't involve mesh generation...
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by stephen_l on 6 Mar 2021, edited 6 Mar 2021
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+1 votes
Even linux may depends on nvidia kernel module depending on the user choice for drivers, sometimes a pragmatic approach is needed evil.
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by duncan on 6 Mar 2021
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@bitacovir said:
Why Meshroom was deleted from the software list?
@brunopostle said:
@bitacovir said:
Why Meshroom was deleted from the software list?
Possibly because it depends on the non-free nvidia kernel module?
Yes, that's why it's moved (I think I did it) to https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Free_software_extensions_to_proprietary_software
While the Nvidia drivers may feel necessary sometimes, that logic is not how we change the paradigm of relying on proprietary solutions.
If the decisions is wrong just explain why and move it back.
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by duncan on 6 Mar 2021
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I added https://excalidraw.com/ earlier today. It's pretty cool, check it out for online sketching @Moult @theoryshaw @JanF
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by JanF on 7 Mar 2021
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@duncan said:
I added https://excalidraw.com/ earlier today. It's pretty cool, check it out for online sketching @Moult @theoryshaw @JanF
Cool, looks a bit more polished than first-draft, will have to test it a bit more thoroughly to see if they don't also have issues with scaling as first draft.
However, they unfortunately don't support embedding images yet, so the usability is much more limited right now.
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by Dav_id on 10 Mar 2021
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Hi everyone !
I suggest another link
diagrams.net
diagrams.net is an open source technology stack for building diagramming applications, and the world’s most widely used browser-based end-user diagramming software.
Available online ... and offline (Desktop version)
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by duncan on 17 Mar 2021, edited 17 Mar 2021
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@Dav_id that is https://github.com/jgraph/drawio right? Previosly known as draw.io and under an apache v2 license?
Interesting, but not really AEC specific. Maybe add it to https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Open_source_software_beginners
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by duncan on 18 Mar 2021
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@Dav_id there's a discussion about graphs going on here: https://community.osarch.org/discussion/440/graph-ontology-editor
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by lukas on 21 Mar 2021
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http://www.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/software/grgen/
some tool for graph handling.. used by Borrman et al. TU-München for BIM in Infrastructure
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by Dav_id on 21 Mar 2021
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@duncan said:
@Dav_id there's a discussion about graphs going on here: https://community.osarch.org/discussion/440/graph-ontology-editor
Thanks @Duncan i'll have a look to this too
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by duncan on 28 Mar 2021, edited 28 Mar 2021
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I've been doing some work on the layout of software pages for the wiki and have this basic page as an example: https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Inkscape
What do you think? Is this a good standard? The infobox on the side is my first stab at getting it to work dynamically as a template (to avoid having to fuss with the layout one very single page).
Question: what do you think should be in the infobox? There are two types of information: required & not required. Anything requires will always be shown even if it is not filled in. Anything not required will only be shown if that information is supplied on the page. Because the way to add an infobox to a page is to copy and paste the template there is an advantage to having all the fields that could reasonable be useful. People can't just add their own field because they want to.
Please remember: the software page is just an introduction and a reference for people to keep learning and to encourage them to browse to other useful pages. Here is an example of a software page on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape
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by bitacovir on 28 Mar 2021
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I think the Software Page is good to explain the potential of the software in the AEC field, to show the possible workflows and compatibilities with other AEC software, to link with examples an tutorials of the tool being used in AEC projects, etc. (link to Open Source Educational Resources). Also I would include a link to our Donation Directory if the software is listed there.
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by duncan on 28 Mar 2021
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I was wrong. I thought I'd worked out how to make some pieces of information not required. It doesn't work. Maybe someone else would like to have a try. Just copy the template to your own user page and use it on a subpage.
@bitacovir I've added donation
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by baswein on 5 Apr 2021, edited 5 Apr 2021
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I just updated the license for open drone map because I saw that they changed it to AGPLv2 for all new versions. I assume that was the right thing to do. They also included this link to an explainer about why AGPL in their post https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html
https://www.opendronemap.org/2020/12/ghost-busting-speed-improvements-and-switch-to-agpl-with-2-3-0/