Placing Doors and Windows in FreeCAD BIM

In this tutorial for FreeCAD BIM workbench beginners, placing doors and windows into walls is demonstrated. It might seem like a simple task, but there can be a lot of obstacles that the user may experience.
Basic precision placing of doors and windows is shown, using draft snaps. Working with default preset objects is demonstrated, including changing of the presets. Several methods of precision of door and window placement is demonstrated. Switching door hinge position and changing the leaf opening direction is also explained.

FreeCAD version used in the video: 1.0

0:00 Introduction
1:25 Placing windows
3:38 Window presets
4:43 Placing windows in walls
9:05 Measuring distances between windows
10:08 Adjusting window parameters
15:44 Placing doors
21:28 Hiding the floor
22:53 Switching door swing and hinge position
24:25 Placing interior doors
30:24 Copying doors
33:13 Creating the door independently of the wall
34:47 Using the Arch Remove tool to cut the door into the wall
35:26 Using snap cycling to snap to the right object
36:43 Using snap special to snap to wall endpoints
39:49 Conclusion

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[henrischutte]

To speedup the placement of the windows you can open the sketch controlling the floor slab and place points on the outline to snap on or create a sketch on the wall surface with vertical lines at the correct distances.

[urban_sculptor]

Very good tutorial thanks - I learnt a lot of new tricks!

[a.modestproposal]

Thanks for this video. So placement of penetrations/decorations on walls is completely primitive: effectively absolute positioning only, nothing parametric. Hopefully walls can eventually support adding sketches to faces, just like parts, so constraints position things like they do everywhere else.