Are you in the AEC industry and looking to quit Autodesk? Check out #Blender #BIM!
New tools include BIMTester - run unit tests for your BIM models! New UI for georeferencing, attributes, property sets, offering first-class native support for IFC that _no_ other proprietary tool offers!
Check it out and share with other #architecture folks!
@thinkMoult there is an interresting comparison to revit. You think blender is intended to be used for the construction part? Isn't that more a domain for something like #freecad?
@petrisch Absolutely. Why wouldn't Blender be suited towards construction? Do you expect to feed all your BIM model into a CNC? The majority of commercial construction is off the shelf components which need scheduled quantities and specs sent to a manufacturer, no need for a full solid model.
For the few bespoke components where you do expect direct fabrication from the geometry, you can use proxy objects.
@thinkMoult well you see i am a mechanical engineer. The hole AEC thing is new for me. In my world you want to be precise on every mm even if you dont go directly on a production machine. Im working on a product that has to deal with this issue. Its a machine that has its interface to a building...
@thinkMoult I have to get used to the fact, that you dont want much detail from day one. For us mech this is strange 😃 makes it hard to automice stuff when you need LODs and a like. But I like the fact that FOSS is taking the lead in this field!
@petrisch ah yes. For a mech eng designing mech components, Blender is the wrong tool for the job, and FreeCAD is much better. You are 100% right!
This is currently only useful for architects, BIM coordinators who need to audit IFCs for asset management, and building physics simulation folks. Perhaps when features come in for systems design, it can be used for preliminary MEP layouting (early phase service requirements, not construction stage), but it is not the target usecase :)