As FreeCAD requires preparing ahead, if I'm going to work on floor plans or façades, for instance I'm not thinking 3D but in 2D + 2D.
I don't have to think and prepare and then make. In sketchup I point and click and things happen. The idea behind having to setup the plan I want to work or insert models is not working fluid. Insertion or drawing on faces is cumbersome for me. Only docs.įreeCAD, on the other hand is fully parametric by nature and also has direct modeling techniques.įor Architecture I can make a full parametric mass study or floor plan with walls, but then I bang my head against it's direct modeling tools. If I knew I could seamlessly export them to DWG, I would dive deep into it. If I knew, right now, that I could generate a full set of permit documents and later some nice set of construction documents with Blender. There is still much lacking from it, like the streamlined ability of generating 2D drawings for PDF and CAD, which is putting me off but I could see myself using it as a direct modeller with some parametric abilities in the future. It's more of a direct modeler with the added benefit of modifiers and, eventually, Sverchok. I haven't explored much but I'm imagining Generating and Deform modifiers.Įven if I find Blender modeling less fluent than Sketchup, I have tested modeling in it and it's more intuitive than FreeCAD. Having roundtripping between FreeCAD and Blender would be truly benefitial for both environments.Īnd do you think a Sketch from FreeCAD is something that could be used in Blender in this process? I would find it very interesting to have a FreeCAD sketch used as base for some of blender's modifiers.
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