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AEC Free Software directory: (https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=AEC_Free_Software_directory)

  1. B by bitacovir on 13 Feb 2022 # +1 votes

    @bitacovir maybe I'm a bit silly, but I'd love it if I could see in peoples posts if a newly found project has been added to the directory (or even just the talk page). The last few projects you've named, are they added?

    I updated the wiki. Always I just publish the findings first in this thread before update the wiki.

  2. B by baswein on 1 Mar 2022 # +2 votes
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  6. D by duncan on 19 Apr 2022 # +1 votes

    https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=CarboLifeCalc

    Revit addin. Description from their website:

    Carbo Life Calculator is the perfect tool to calculate the embodied carbon in a building with a single press of a button. Using data from EPD's or self-defined materials & values, the Carbo Life Calculator automatically interprets your Autodesk® Revit® model and presents you its embodied carbon.

    Using this tool allows anybody to calculate the embodied carbon of a design while giving full freedom to the user to select materials, edit or expand the material database to report and optimize the embodied carbon. As a Revit plugin, you will also be able to create "heatmaps" from the calculation results, making it just a press of a few buttons to create some great 3D visualizations to show the embodied carbon. You can also export the embodied carbon values back as a parameter into the Revit elements and use in-Revit-schedules in ways of your liking. Or why not export the entire database to excel and create your own graphs and reports as you please. There are many ways the Carbo Life Calculator can be of use:

    Carbo Life Calc is flexible, and can help assess your project in many ways:

    It’s a full embodied carbon calculator;

Use it as a simple quantity snooping tool;

Keep it as a database for your embodied carbon values;

Optional by comparing various design options;

Use it as a tool to study in-depth what embodied carbon is;

Optimize materials to find low-carbon solutions, and present their impact;

Various export methods take your calculation and visualizations to a new level.
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  12. B by bitacovir on 25 Jun 2022 #

    NASA WorldWind

    WorldWind is an open source virtual globe API. WorldWind allows developers to quickly and easily create interactive visualizations of 3D globe, map and geographical information. Organizations around the world use WorldWind to monitor weather patterns, visualize cities and terrain, track vehicle movement, analyze geospatial data and educate humanity about the Earth.

    https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

    https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/web/

    Apache License, Version 2.0

  13. D by duncan on 25 Jun 2022, edited 25 Jun 2022 #

    @bitacovir said:

    NASA WorldWind

    WorldWind is an open source virtual globe API. WorldWind allows developers to quickly and easily create interactive visualizations of 3D globe, map and geographical information. ...

    How do you suggest we avoid overlap with the GIS community? Otherwise the directory loses focus ... that's why KiCAD is not there. It has no application to AEC. GIS FOSS on the other hand is relevant but has its own community. https://www.osgeo.org/

  14. B by bitacovir on 25 Jun 2022, edited 25 Jun 2022 #

    @duncan said:

    How do you suggest we avoid overlap with the GIS community? Otherwise the directory loses focus ... that's why KiCAD is not there. It has no application to AEC. GIS FOSS on the other hand is relevant but has its own community. https://www.osgeo.org/

    I don't see the problem with a selection of GIS apps in our directory, if it is clearly constrained to a section: https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=AEC_Free_Software_directory#GIS

    I think that some degree of overlapped content is good, among sites. I already shared a lot of content between OSArch's wiki and FreeCAD forum.

    I don't know if OSGeo community has a similar directory of resources. But the idea to have a software directory is to link all possible related and useful tools that are all over internet. This way, we inform to users about possible Open Source workflows if they explore these tools.

    Of course, too generic software don't need to be in a AEC dedicated directory. But software not so popular should be highlighted. I didn't know about this alternative of Google Earth...

  15. D by duncan on 26 Jun 2022 #
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  17. D by duncan on 24 Jul 2022 # +1 votes

    I've added a few things to the wiki. Feel free to improve them

    https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Category:Blender_Add-on

    • [https://prochitecture.gumroad.com/l/blosm Blender-OSM] The addon imports buildings from OpenStreetMap. Building height and number of floors are used to create the final scene. Composition into 3D parts for a building with the complex structure is also processed. A large number of roof shapes is supported. If a terrain is provided, buildings are placed on the terrain automatically.

    • [Hira building Generatorhttps://hiranoji.gumroad.com/l/hira-building-generator|Hira building Generator] This is a generator that allows you to create easy, fun, yet complex architectural structures made with blender geometry nodes.

    • [https://paveloliva.gumroad.com/l/buildify Buildify] is a geometry nodes library for easy building creation.

  18. D by duncan on 25 Jul 2022 #
  19. C by CadGiru on 4 Aug 2022, edited 5 Aug 2022 #

    @duncan said:

    I've added the available icons to our donations page to support our friends

    https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Donation_Directory

    Also cleaned up a few more software pages with InfoBoxes, Pages I know of missing an info box are listed here: https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=Category:SoftwareMissingInfoBox

    Updated so far, needs checking..

    • Inventor

    • Revit

    • LibreCad

    • Bcfier (maturity unknown?)

    • bhom (not sure what this is (maturity unknown?))

    • BIMxBEM

    • Blender2Godot

    • CAD Transform

    • Charonifc

    • CloudCompare @coen @Gorgious

    • Code Aster @Jesusbill Maybe You can supply a ScrnShot?

    • FreeCAD/FreeCAD setup is a subpage of Freecad @duncan Should this have an infobox?

    • IfcPlusPlus

    • Sweet Home 3D

    • RevitPythonShell

    https://github.com/podestplatz/BCF-Plugin-FreeCAD is no longer maintained... Should we delete, or make a new maturity category?

  20. D by duncan on 5 Aug 2022 #

    Nice work @CadGiru, just make a new post if you get a chance to do even more. You might also have thought on this post https://community.osarch.org/discussion/1023/a-new-type-of-software-directory#latest

    FreeCAD subpages. I'm not sure about the best way to manage subpages. I'd love to hear a suggestion. I'm wondering if they should be branded and presented as "books" or "collections" or something like that. For now I'm not sure of the best approach.

    BCF-Plugin_FreeCAD it has shown some promise so I think we can call it promising. I hope someone takes it up again.

  21. D by duncan on 12 Aug 2022 #
  22. B by bitacovir on 13 Aug 2022 #

    OSM2World

    A Java converter that creates three-dimensional models of the world from OpenStreetMap data.

    LGPL-3.0 license

    http://osm2world.org/

  23. C by CadGiru on 16 Aug 2022 #
  24. B by bitacovir on 27 Aug 2022, edited 27 Aug 2022 #
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