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As the num­ber of con­trib­u­tors to the FreeCAD BIM Work­bench grows over time, a need for bet­ter coor­di­na­tion has arisen this year. Mar­cus­pol­lio ini­ti­at­ed a BIM meet­up ses­sion, which has become a week­ly occur­rence. Devel­op­ers and active users dis­cuss the cur­rent devel­op­ment sta­tus, future devel­op­ment plans, and the roadmap.

The Sep­tem­ber mee­tups were ded­i­cat­ed to set­ting up the agen­da, man­ag­ing meet­ing notes, and plan­ning near-term goals for the FreeCAD 26.3 fea­ture freeze. A large part of the dis­cus­sion focused on the roadmap, set­ting midterm goals and try­ing to estab­lish uni­fied goals for 2D draw­ing cre­ation, floor plan mod­el­ing work­flows, and improve­ments to door and win­dow tool. Devel­op­ers also share and coor­di­nate their cur­rent devel­op­ment focus. Meet­ing notes from the past mee­tups and rolling agen­da are pub­lished in this pub­lic doc­u­ment. 

BIM mee­tups are open to every­one who is inter­est­ed in the dis­cus­sions about the BIM work­bench or just want to lis­ten to the dis­cus­sion. The meet­ings are orga­nized as video con­fer­ences using Jit­si and can be joined via link in the FreeCAD events cal­en­dar. Mee­tups are held on Tues­days at 16:00 UTC.