BIM with FreeCAD - Barcelona pavillion 16 - Quantities and schedules

[@catallaxy]

Yorik, thank you for this video series, it really helps!! You are a cultural treasure!

[@wpegley]

Thx Legend, You & the Dev team are single handily setting the world free, Coming from training in the coperate world to a back full of Spinal injury there was nothing for me, mmm maybe Blender. Discovering FreeCAD has now become a daily reason to live - (Ok most days). But Thx.

[@YorikvanHavre]

Thanks for the kind words! FreeCAD is helping a lot of us, and there is a lot to do! Come drop at the forum and help us building this ;)

[@wpegley]

@@YorikvanHavre Im there when I need to be, But maybe in the next few years when ive got more expirence i will be at forum level, For now I throw my 2c's in on the Facebook Pages. Theres alot to learn and little time, the kids of tomorrow dont know how lucky they are.

[@SwapneshKoli]

actually, there are 4 faces which are vertical, the width of the wall also contributes to the vertical data extraction this may however be substracted by knowing the number of walls.

[@oalfernandes]

Thank you Yorik!

[@mulhudasaja4994]

great work as always, i have been looking into your project for a few days. i mainly use freecad for architectural project, as today i tried manual calculation of "wall vertical area" ( area needed for painting ) and found that it doesn't match with the value showed in the Data view, the area calculation does match when the wall doesn't have any boolean attached (door or window). but when i try with window attached, it seems that the hole created by boolean ( vertical face created by the hole beside the attached window) is added into the vertical area showed in the Data view. can we do something about it so we can use the value stright for wall painting area coverage ?? as we know we dont have to paint the connected area between window and the wall.. (this is my effort of learning english)

[@moussahachemi4875]

Yes that's a real problem, we have to trust the software to use it in actual projects. And it becomes difficult when we find this kind of errors.

[@thotbuilds1466]

You could extrapolate areas manually using the survey tool and export it using csv file. Survey tool does calculate the areas correctly when there is a window and door cut.

[@thotbuilds1466]

@@moussahachemi4875 Actually in their documentation it has been mentioned to not trust these values, probably it is still experimental.

[@dennisverschoor]

Yorik parabéns, obrigado. Como sempre faz parecer que tudo eh muito simples.

[@juanmunicoy]

Fc Muy bueno!!! hace unos meses que estoy usando y explorando las funcionalidades de Freecad. Ante todo quiero felicitarlos por el trabajo y la dedicación evidente que pusieron en este proyecto. Por mi parte estoy muy conforme y entusiasmado con poder utilizarlo como herramienta definitiva para mi trabajo. Quisiera saber cómo aportar al desarrollo y como poderlo consultar algunos dudas puntuales. Saludos

[@YorikvanHavre]

Gracias! La mejor manera es de visitar el forum de FreeCAD en forum.freecad.org hay mucha discusion, cosas que puede contribuir, y como resolver dudas. Ademas, necesita de hablantes de español ;)

[@jaykantariya2403]

Please update schedule video for volume and how to extract quantity from model need guidance for quantity scheduling

[@moussahachemi4875]

Hello Yorik ! That've been a while since your last video, I hope everything's going well for you. I just was modelling a stairs using partdesign but foud that we can't get the volume or any other info like the length of the hight of the final body, while it's difficult to use the stairs command in the BIM workflow when our stairs' form isn't regular. Is it any way to do it properly ? Thank you very much for all the work you do ... Keep going

[@YorikvanHavre]

Hi! Yes I'm awfully late with videos... Will get a new one out ASAP! Using other workbenches is the best way to achieve something when regular tools cant. To obtain the volume there is a number of ways, the is a "Shape info" (not sure of the exact name) macro, and IIRC there is a shape info tool in the Part workbench too. To see the total height of an object, the best way is to turn the bounding box on...

[@moussahachemi4875]

@@YorikvanHavre Great to know that you're going well and Thank you for the quick answer. Yes, actually a good way I found is to use a macro called "fcinfo" that will give numerous information about the object whenever type it has. Thank you again, and have a good day

[@alcefreecad322]

Hi, Yorik. I have been reviewing the Layers tool you are developing. I would like to know more about that tool, I do not know if you could make a video where you use its functions, I thank you very much for your attention.

[@thotbuilds1466]

nice tutorial, but the problem with taking "Vertical area" is that it calculates all the areas of all vertical faces. Which means a wall will have 4 vertical faces and not 2, because even the wall thickness face is calculated as an area. When you have multiple walls, this can become a problem. Also when walls have openings and are more complex ( drawn with wires), areas don't appear under "IFC Attributes". The work around it to use the survey tool, and add these areas manually in "properties view" under "data". Again if this is done, we can neither call it with IFC quantities manager nor add it to the "schedule" as shown here. So the object doesn't have linked area......any workaround for this where you add areas from a spreadsheet for parametric objects and make them "components IFC" and extrapolate these areas linked to the spreadsheet ?

[@Conta_Google]

Is it count how many bricks there is in a wall or even in an entirely home?

[@YorikvanHavre]

Yes, if you either design your walls accordingly, or you apply a rule such as (number of bricks per m^2 * wall vertical area)

[@thotbuilds1466]

@@YorikvanHavre How can this be done? is there a tutorial i can learn this from ? BTW Great work with FreeCAD, and it has turned out amazing!

[@Z-add]

the property is called "Vertical Area" with a space between the words. but you entered "VerticalArea" . Is this by convention that you have to skip the space between words?

[@YorikvanHavre]

Internally, all properties are written without spaces. On the graphical interface (panels, etc..), a space is automatically added before each capital letter to make them more readable. But I *think* the expression engine accepts both forms

[@Z-add]

Please add 1080p in your youtube uploads

[@Accuface2000]

You can save yourself a lot of time and errors by importing elements/descriptions from the documentation to the schedule rather than looking and typing.

[@Accuface2000]

That's a lot of manual work, Autodesk can automatically generate quantities. No need to input formulas