I'm reposting here what I just wrote on my blog: https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2023-008-about-the-freecad-logo and it's basically the last thing I'll say about the logo The FreeCAD logo has created a lot of heated discussion over the past months/years. There is an enormous forum thread spanning o...

Agree...
Maybe we need to remove the "Undefined" option and default everything to BuildingElementProxy

Sorry, late to the discussion... Yes saving files as FileIncluded is just bare metal, just for storing bytes. You still need all the interface to read, display, edit, whatever... In case you don't need to show the contents to the user, then it's easier. Indeed it's mostly a matter of choosing a form...

Thanks for the kind comments, people :) Here it goes: From https://yorik.uncreated.net/blog/2023-006-feeecad-weekly2 Hi all, A short overview of what I've been working on this week: NativeIFC: unit tests: Unit tests are a fundamental stone of any software project. It is basically a suite of programs...

- A new start page tab that helps you to choose which WB to use
- NativeIFC doc observer to handle document save/load
- Per-document Draft working plane & grid
- Explore markdown-based wiki systems

As far as I know there is no standard "container" object type in IFC. That's a problem... Now, any object can act as a container for others. For a simple example look into the IfcOpenHouse, the windows are an agglomerate of IfcPlates and IfcMembers. And their shape is understood as an aggr...

Thanks for the fix @Jolbas !

This is really good! One thing I would like to see is something to help new users to choose which workbench they will want to work with. Not something that switches automatically, but rather something that teaches: you want to do this or that? This is the workbench you need. On https://wiki.freecad....

Excellent!!
Maybe these could be added to https://wiki.freecad.org/Misc_templates ?

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