Ok, you autoreplyed to allOverkillTASF wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:09 pm For my journey personally, I should have just paid a pro to do it.
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Edit: I don't blame FC for my current situation - But my choice to try to do this myself using FC is my fault, and I would definitely not do it again. It might have gone a little better if I had used different software. But if I started over I would have had someone else do all this work - This isn't for hobby purposes, it's for a home.
As you discovered, in your situation maybe it's not really a problem about the SW (open or closed) used in the end: it's more about get the job done, with some money constraint and time madatory task (as you say having a living house in time), so you should getting a pro from the beginning. There is the real difference and as the opensource teach us, the real difference are the people and the knowledge, not only some patents and massive lock-in.
A BIM software like FC, even if it's more more (and very quicker now, as said) better (and at some point extraordinary, IMHO, because now some task are really better then other SW), it's in reality in an early stage of developement, so to satify some quality level and get some (certified) results, maybe you cannot have too much of these contraints (money *and* time *and* results) as you had. It's good that you understood that (as I understand, not exactly in time, but better now then never) and shared you personal experience about, that IMHO it's very very useful for others (for me, that's for sure, and thanks again for this).