

Chapter 5 – Adding doors, windows, and surroundings.Chapter 4 – Starting a floor plan drawing.Chapter 3 – Editing and changing drawings.Chapter 1 – FreeCAD basics for technical drawing.I hope that by the end of chapter eight, you start to see FreeCAD as a real replacement tool to help you create any design you like for architecture.įrom that point, we can move in the future to a full BIM workflow using FreeCAD! For example, we will create a floor plan design using most of the tools available in FreeCAD for 2D drawings. My goal with the book is to introduce FreeCAD to anyone looking to make architectural drawings. From the user interface basics to drawing a floor plan!īook about FreeCAD for architectural drawing You don't need any previous experiences with FreeCAD, since we will start from the beginning. You will be able to add the floor plan to page layout for print featuring a title block from a template in FreeCAD. In the final chapters, we can take this floor plan design and export it using either the DXF format or as a PDF. We will add to that floor plan all traditional elements from an architectural drawing like furniture, dimension lines, text annotations, and much more.

As an example of project development, you will learn how to draw a full featured floor plan using FreeCAD. In this book, you will learn how to use FreeCAD to create traditional technical drawings for architecture. FreeCAD for architectural drawing: Create technical drawings with a free and open-source CADĭo you want to start using a free and open-source software to work in your CAD related projects? Meet FreeCAD and their incredible array of options to create both technical drawings and 3D models for architecture, engineering, and more.
