Events

Details on how to join this free talk: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/bim/ The architecture, engineering, and construction industry is a vast, diverse, but highly proprietary field. The primary means of data exchange between architects, structural, MEPF engineers, cost planners, surveyors, program schedulers, asset/facility management and more revolve around a concept known as Building Information Modeling (BIM) in addition…
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For the third Monthly Meetup of the year we have the pleasure to host Gonzalo Casas who will present COMPAS, an open-source framework for research and collaboration in Architecture, Engineering, Fabrication, and Construction. More information on the meetup can be found in this link: https://community.osarch.org/discussion/466/monthly-meetup-12-6th-march-20-00-utc See you there!

This is our quasi-regularly-recurring community meet-up around Speckle. What is Speckle? It's an open source data platform for AEC featuring all sorts of things - like git-like versioning, object based api, schema "agnostic", lossy interoperability and more. Usually our meetups are laid back - we just try and touch base with other specklers and share…
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For this Monthly Meetup's keynote presentation we are excited to have Dimitrie Stefanescu and Matteo Cominetti present Speckle, a cloud based solution for the AEC industry that provides interoperability, version control, real time collaboration, data management and automation. Live stream link: https://jitsi.member.fsf.org/osarch More info: https://community.osarch.org/discussion/511/monthly-meetup-13-10th-of-april-20-00-utc See you there!

For this monthly meetup we are glad to host Frédéric Beaupère, from ERNE Holzbau and one of the active members of OSArch, to present his work on developing and using two BlenderBIM Add-ons in Production. Ifc_Void_Data: A void data aggregation tool that overlays IFC models of multiple disciplines and combines data of interest for "ProvisionForVoids".…
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Synopsis: We’re seeing an accelerating trend of users (that’s you!) across many disciplines who are able to code, collaboratively writing a growing ecosystem of free software for our industry. This ecosystem is powered by international standards of data models and relationships. We’re going to go past the current superficial adoption of IFC, and see how…
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Great to host Lindsay Kay from xeolabs in our upcoming July's monthly meetup! As the lead developer of xeokit, Lindsay will talk about this open-source web programming toolkit that has been developed for visualizing 3D BIM models in the browser and that is currently used by a number of leading BIM platforms in the AEC…
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Dion Moult will be presenting an introduction on Native IFC and open source AEC applications, like the BlenderBIM Add-on and more at CAAD Futures 2021. This will be a technical workshop, going right into the technical details of how Native IFC works, how you can start coding, how to build your own OpenBIM tools, and…
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Great to host Dimitar Pouchnikov from UHStudio in our upcoming August's monthly meetup, this Saturday on the 7th of August, to present on the use of Blender for Architectural Concept Design. In this meetup, @dimitar will talk about how he uses Blender in a professional capacity, as a highly useful program for exploring the early…
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Connect! is Speckle's conference for engineers, designers, BIM managers, hackers, and anyone interested in modern solutions, open-source, and data-driven processes for the AEC industry. Over three online days, leading startups, experts, and vendors in the space will provide insights on how to bring your workflows to the 21st century and run hands-on workshops. Open source…
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In this monthly meetup we focus on structural analysis and design with Richard Brice who will talk about BridgeLink, an open-source bridge engineer software published by the Washington State Department of Transportation. The flagship application, PGSuper for design, analysis, and load rating of precast, prestressed concrete girder bridges, will be highlighted including recent efforts to…
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