Procedural Pavilion in FreeCAD ?

[paullee]

Impressed by @dimitar's video using Blender to build this awesome structure

Any similar works done in FreeCAD ? Not necessarily architecture.

Thanks for any idea !

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[paullee]

Any idea ?

[drmacro]

Not in the architectural world, but this guy has done some great videos combining FreeCAD and Blender:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px35bbJG08M

[Vincent B]

You have all tools to compete with Blender.
https://cjoint.com/c/KBBpfyJyc3u

[drmacro]

You have all tools to compete with Blender.
...

Would you care to explain how you did this? Maybe a video or tutorial?

Note: I'm very interested because there were folks looking to do this on the Facebook group a week or so ago.

I'm guessing, that while FC can do this, it's not as easy or comprehensive as it is in Blender.

FC doesn't have texture mapping or does it? I know there is some facility in Arch, but what about Part or Part Design.

[paullee]

You have all tools to compete with Blender.
https://cjoint.com/c/KBBpfyJyc3u

Thanks all! This looks great!

Yet to check the file, yes, any tutorial? I am not aware of it.

EDIT - Impressive, need to learn Curve WB

[drmacro]

You have all tools to compete with Blender.
https://cjoint.com/c/KBBpfyJyc3u

Thanks all! This looks great!

Yet to check the file, yes, any tutorial? I am not aware of it.

Well, I first looked at the link, a quick glance I didn't think I saw a FCStd file. Obviously I was wrong...

So, now I've downloaded it and looked. I know how to do Gordon surfs. I know how to do Slices. I know how to do arrays.

I'm not sure how you get it all to do this...

[paullee]

You have all tools to compete with Blender.
https://cjoint.com/c/KBBpfyJyc3u

1st question - can't figure out how can the Datum Plane / Line be added without using PartDesign to add an active Body ?

[dimitar]

You have all tools to compete with Blender.
https://cjoint.com/c/KBBpfyJyc3u

Impressive. Also would like to see a tutorial or walkthrough of this. I downloaded the file but no idea on how the finals are generated.

Besides BIM basics like easy walls, doors, and windows, this is the topic that interests me the most (if you can't tell by the youtube videos ! However, in freecad, it is currently not easily achieved as no one has created tools to do UV subdivision and panelise. The good news is the under the hood, everything is in place, and it can be achieved with some python knowledge (albeit more than my familiarity), as shown here: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=39218 (took a while to find!) and of what @GlouGlou is posting.

Hopefully the curtain wall too would be able to this at some point, for which I imagine more interest for these sorts of workflows, especially by users with coding knowledge.

[Syres]

1st question - can't figure out how can the Datum Plane / Line be added without using PartDesign to add an active Body ?

See https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 30#p274907

Datum Line I'm sure you could guess from that is

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App.ActiveDocument.addObject('PartDesign::Line','PartDatumLine')