About
Useful BIM utilities should be available instantly
FreeBIMTools was created to make everyday BIM tasks accessible without needing expensive software for every simple operation.
Opening a full BIM authoring application to count how many doors are in a model, or to check whether a GlobalId exists, is a poor use of a licence and of an afternoon. Most of those questions are questions about data, and the data is right there in the IFC.
The other half of the problem is trust. The web is full of converters that will happily take a model, but a project file is often commercially sensitive and contractually restricted. The honest answer is not a better privacy policy. It is not receiving the file at all.
What the project focuses on
- Open BIM
- Data that is readable without a licence for the tool that made it.
- IFC
- The format everything here is built around, read directly rather than converted first.
- Interoperability
- Getting model data into the spreadsheet, script or report where the work is actually done.
- Privacy
- Local processing, so a confidential model never has to be handed to a third party.
- Browser technology
- WebAssembly and Web Workers, which make desktop-class parsing possible on a web page.
- Practical BIM workflows
- The small, frequent jobs, not the enterprise platform.