I would like to come to thank the freecad community for their relentless effort to make freecad a state of the art program for 3d modeling and precisely for architectural modeling. It has improved a great deal, is more stable than before, and i was able to push it to see how far it can handle fairly sizeable projects when it comes to modeling.
Certainly the design workflow could be improved in may aspects, but I can confidently say that Freecad has effectively attained a level of maturity that of which we can already do large scale proffessional quality projects with confidence.
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That being said, I want to present to you this project that i've been working on for a bit in the last couple weeks, it's a historical building of a dam structure that I think was built sometime in the early 1900's. This project was a mix of architectural and engineering processes. It posed a vareity of challenge to reproduce it because on one hand there were missing blue prints that made it hard to have all the elements and details required, but on the second hand, it required a different modeling approach than what is generally thought about from an architectural designer mindset.
So this is was very interesting as it demonstrates freecad's capababilities to be flexible depending on the industry and the requirement, which is a huge advantage when compared to other dedicated cad prorams. It can do the work of Autocad, Inventor and Revit all at the same time, which is an amazing thing to be able to acheive. So once again thank you for the work done by this community.
The next challenge will be to see how it handles large scale construction documenting. Based on the current up to date that i've been doing especially checking out the draft workbench and Techdraw, so far it seems it can do some documenting very well. So the left will be seen to see how it handles large files, and how the changes made on the main drawing loads and updates on the documents aswell. But this is for a later date in time.
But for it's current capabilities, what I think should be great to lay down consistently is the workflow process and organisation that will allow freecad to be quick, fast, load easily when doing documentation. This requires a sound understanding of how to approach the modeling aspect 1st from an architectural mindset, and seconding from an engineering mindset. I have already spotted some of these fantastic instances when modeling this project, especially with the Sketcher workbench and the ability to always change/swap the base model/shape once it's been updated. But Fantastic progress.
One last thing to mention, drawing with image references is now very smooth, import of images on planes, scaling them, and working with them is so much better now and it can handle many images without crashing. This is amazing.
Not dead bro, just dozing off seasonally.
