In 2012, Google sold the product to Trimble. SketchUp was originally developed by Google and was one of the greatest free CAD packages ever put on the market.

sheet, but I could have madeĮrrors or your cells could be different.Free feature is web-only with many important features hobbled.

(Obviously, don't blindly trust the dimensions I've used in the model. I'll kick things off with a screenshot of how I'm thinking of laying out my new system and a model of the Eve LF280K battery that I made. My thought is that if we can share low/medium fidelity models of common specific hardware and generic things like breakers/busbars/etc these can reduce the time/effort needed to generate useful 3D system design documents. Many companies already provide CAD files for their hardware so these could simply be linked, but other hardware has to be modeled from scratch.

Solicit ideas for the best way to maintain a community parts library resource.

Perhaps those who've had successes can also share screenshots/renders of their finished models to inspire others.

Start a discussion where folks can share their experiences with Open Source CAD software as a DIY Solar/Energy system design tool.

For this, a CAD program is ideal - and being an Open Sourceįan, FreeCAD is the flavour of choice for me. To visually assemble the system before I've cut/fastened/bought any parts.

With any building/design project, one thing that really helps me think through the spatial and material requirements is being able I've been playing with various off-grid systems for a while now, but just starting to get into building my first LiFePO4 system.

Using freecad