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freecad vs archicad, sketchup, revit ,solidworks, autodesk autocad inventor, catia, manually etc.

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freecad is faster, easier and better at this work


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Re: freecad vs archicad creation of a terrain model

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freecad vs revit: calculate excavation


freecad is faster and easier than revit for this job


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Re: freecad vs archicad creation of a terrain model, vs revit calculate excavation

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freecad vs revit: ramp with walls.

freecad is also faster and easier for this job

revit here from min 5:37


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Re: freecad vs archicad creation of a terrain model, vs revit calculate excavation

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freecad vs archicad

Freecad is also easier and faster for stairs with angled corner landings

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Re: freecad vs archicad creation of a terrain model, vs revit calculate excavation etc.

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freecad is easier than sketchup here, especially when the number of tines increases


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Re: freecad vs archicad creation of a terrain model, vs revit calculate excavation, vs sketchup etc.

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As much as I like FreeCAD it seems to be an unfair comparison. I only viewed the box joints: You have sped up your video or you move and click much faster and you don't explain anything around it.
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Re: freecad vs archicad creation of a terrain model, vs revit calculate excavation, vs sketchup etc.

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chrisb wrote: Sat Oct 02, 2021 9:24 pm As much as I like FreeCAD it seems to be an unfair comparison. I only viewed the box joints: You have sped up your video or you move and click much faster and you don't explain anything around it.
I agree here. And when we say "faster" we should say "why" or what's the tool or workflow that here makes FreeCad better/faster then other CAD.
For the box join, IE: the guy explaining it (and he's also explaining with voice so maybe it's slower also for this), made every single shape silhouette for the join manually, when in Sketchup too he should have used an array of boxes and then a boolean operation as you made (correctly) with FCAD. So it's faster here because one used a longer method (not the faster one).

However: I like a lot this kind of comparison, and of course your very useful daily tutorial videos with tips and tricks and ideas with our loved FCAD! Your videos are always very inspiring, thanks!
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I haven't tried much outside of FreeCAD, but it's definitely awesome at this kind of work.
My parents in-law's house currently has stairs that I designed in FreeCAD. (I know there are people doing more complex things, but it was the first time something I've designed has been made into the real world so I wanted to brag about it :D)
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chrisb wrote: Sat Oct 02, 2021 9:24 pm
i deleted the time comparisons
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ragohix769 wrote: Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:49 pm ... I like a lot this kind of comparison, and of course your very useful daily tutorial videos with tips and tricks and ideas with our loved FCAD! Your videos are always very inspiring, thanks!


Thank you for the flowers. here is another video. again a comparison. it's about banisters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF0ITd1WsyY

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