Collaborative CAD Skill
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- Collaborative CAD Skill - ability to design a full house to LOD 500 in a month of time or shorter. Since this is about 1000 hours of design time once all parts are actually cosidered (down to plumbing and water fittings, wires, cabinets - corresponding to every single part included/built/assembled) - 24 people working full time on this would take about a week to accomplish a full new design, and less for a modification of an existing design. Since every new house build involves custom detail - having real CAD for an actual build shifts from impossible to available - in an under 1 month schedule required for the deployment of any new house model.
- This means that each participant understands a common coordinate system, and understands collaborative methods allowing for such design.
- Automation assist can be leveraged - such as automated generators for wall modules, floor modules, wiring, plumbing, etc. These are all low-hanging fruit - and the cohort will be involved in automated generation of modules - whether using simple techniques such as spreadsheets in freeCAD which allow one to design physical objects using spreadsheets - or more advanced methods such as using scripts, Python programming, or Antigravity to generate modules and to eventually automate the process by creating Seed Eco-Home design workbenches in FreeCAD.