Sandbox:TutorialArchBIM

Goal of this document
Update original Arch Tutorial by Yorik van Havre.

The purpose was to seriously try to learn some Freecad Work flows, after playing with it at various points in time for at least the last 5 years.

Reflect version 0.17 / 0.18 of Freecad Use a BIM workflow

Introduction
Freecad Arch Tutorial update

Typical workflows
In this tutorial we focus on a BIM oriented approach of using FreeCad. We will use mostly three workbenches: Arch Workbench and BIM, of course, but also Draft, whose tools are all included in Arch, so there is no need to switch workbenches, and Sketcher. Conveniently, can create a custom toolbar in your Arch workbench, with Tools → Customize, and add the tools from the sketcher that you use often. In this tutorial, we will model the house in 3D, based on the 2D drawings we will download from the net, and extract from it 2D documents, such as plans, elevations and sections.

Customizing Arch WorkBench
This is an example "customized" Arch workbench: