Hi, it is nice to hear that there would be interest. Unfortunately the company who was interested in this, put it to a long halt, other topics got higher priority. If they come back to this, hopefully that time with more serious commitment, we can revive the topic or start a new one.

bernd wrote:@bxabi:
Have you sehen viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17035 Ii it what you guys would like to archive ?

Thanks the info! Yes, this is definitely part of what we we needed, to generally speed up building and modifying metal structures. I am forwarding it.

Hi, it's been a while since the last information, I am posting a status update. Unfortunately the designing of the requirements/features is going really slowly. The cause is that the company who needs the software is busy in other areas, and they don't allocate much time for the design. There is no ...

Hello, it is nice to see that our project generated interest in the forum, it looks like we have good chance to put together a good team. This post can serve as an answer for julianfoad and CADeal, and as a status update. We have some delay in the software definition, the feedback is coming slower f...

ezzieyguywuf wrote:I've got some experience with FreeCAD, a bit of experience with C++, and very extensive experience with python. I am interested in this opportunity.

Hi, nice to hear that you are interested. I will contact you in a few days with more details.

Hello We are representing a company building various metal constructions. After researching the possibilities, the conclusion was FreeCAD can be a good base, a software suite can created on to build and manage their construction structures. We got the go, so the development will be started. We are l...

Thanks the reply. These structures are looking good. We will need something fairly similar, roof structures, with the panels or glass and other accessories included.

I will look at the bolts, and the axis system.

The FEM calculation is not a requirement now. But theoretically it can come later.

Hi, thank you for the help. The dome macro is quite nice, it is actually in some ways similar to what we need, but we have many different structures. That's why several more general tools will be needed, and a way to assemble them. So with the compound - create simple copy, and selection disable at ...

I have now the latest versions from git of Freecad, Opencascade and IfcOpenShell. I see that the IFC handling improved, it is at least partially loading files which did not start before. I think this part will be ok, it has to be handled when we will have the actual files and know what exactly has t...

Thanks the answers, the situation is getting clearer. I will install/build now the 0.16 development version and the Assembly 2 workbench, to see the difference. I will check how big a model can I build using the recommendations above, and the improvement of the IFC handling (the model size is more i...