Arch Workbench

The Arch workbench provides modern BIM workflow to FreeCAD, with support for features like IFC support, fully parametric architectural entities such as walls, structural elements or windows, and rich 2D document production. The Arch workbench also feature all the tools from the Draft Workbench.

Note: The BIM functionality of FreeCAD is now progressively split into this Arch Workbench, which holds all the base BIM tools, and the BIM Workbench addon, that you can install via menu Tools->Addon Manager, that adds a new interface layer on top of the Arch tools, with the aim to make BIM workflow in FreeCAD more intuitive and user-friendly.



File formats

 * IFC : Industry foundation Classes
 * DAE : Collada mesh format
 * OBJ : Obj mesh format (export only)
 * JSON : JavaScript Object Notation format (export only)
 * 3DS : 3DS format (import only)

API
The Arch module can be used in python scripts and macros using the Arch Python API functions.

Tutorials

 * Arch tutorial
 * Quick arch overview on Yorik's blog
 * Video presentation of the Arch workbench
 * Import from STL or OBJ
 * Export to STL or OBJ
 * Arch panel tutorial
 * BIM modeling chapter from the FreeCAD manual