What is Simplebim and what does it do in practice?
Simplebim is an openBIM software application. It manages BIM data.
Simplebim makes the model data consistent and rich, and thus fit for your purposes – no matter who created it, what application, in which project or by which discipline.
It is a tool for anyone who uses BIM data and needs to manage it.
Simplebim can be used from the basic BIM data management (such as exchanging BIM models with the site survey equipment, quantity take-off software or to energy analysis) up to managing all BIM data for large construction companies: hundreds of projects, tens of thousands of models per year.
Simplebim is used for cleaning-up, standardizing and enriching models. The data is further shared with downstream applications and used in IFC or Excel format.
In practice, this means that you can easily add your own properties to the model: this set of properties will be used in every model, from every discipline and in every project.
You can automatically classify the building elements according to your own classifications.
Simplebim calculates consistent quantities from the geometry, independent from the software that created the model.
You can define locations for the building elements in an automated way.
Models can be further enriched by deriving new information with formulas or by merging data from external sources.
Models can be merged and trimmed.
Finally, Simplebim automatically fixes all sort of technical model issues.
In all cases the enhancements are not trapped inside Simplebim: after saving your standardized and enriched IFC models – or even Excel files – your enriched data can be used in truly openBIM downstream workflows.