FreeCAD BIM Structural Project Course Overview

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FreeCAD BIM Structural Project Course is a free video course by FCB Lounge, which covers creation of a small structural engineering project in FreeCAD BIM from start to finish. It is aimed at intermediate FreeCAD users and is divided into 9 lessons and the overall length of the course is over 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Structural building model created in FreeCAD BIM course

Attendees of the course will learn how to setup FreeCAD for BIM work, how to create a structural model of a small building including slabs, columns, walls, slab and wall openings, and stairs - the whole BIM model including some of the IFC data.

Large part of the course is dedicated to creation of 2D construction documentation from the 3D model. This includes creation of sheets with predefined title block, than creation of 2D floor plan of each level and adding necessary annotations to the floor plan, such as tags and dimensions. Placement of floor plans on sheets is also demonstrated in one of the lessons. Section of the building structure is created in similar way with annotations. The last part covers export of the 3D model to IFC file format and also export of sheets to PDF file format for printing.

Structural floor plan created in FreeCAD BIM

All of this is available for free as a Youtube course. The supporting material for the course can be downloaded from the FCB Lounge Ko-Fi shop.

Overall the course offers great overview of FreeCAD as a BIM tool for use as a structural design authoring tool.

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