Raw BIM data is complex and incomplete. Managing it the traditional way is expensive, manual, slow, and requires specialized expertise. Simplebim dataflows process your IFC model in a revolutionary, automated and centralized way. Dataflows make your data consistent and complete – ready to use in thousands of use cases.
• Import/Merge BIM models and data from any application supporting the open IFC standard, including infra models.
• Process (clean up, restructure, enrich and validate) your BIM data using Simplebim’s innovative dataflows.
• Export your BIM data back to IFC or to data tables – ready to use in your favourite application.
Raw BIM data is complex. Preparing it distributed and manually by each designer is inefficient, time-consuming and prone to errors.
Centralized and automated data processing makes the BIM workflow with designers more efficient.
You need fewer BIM requirements for the designers, reduce unnecessary iterations, and let them focus on delivering their core value.
Raw BIM data is not complete. Manually enriching it for each downstream function wastes time, introduces errors, and limits scalability.
With Simplebim’s centralized and automated processing, your data is complete and automatically ready for countless use cases, in the most efficient way.
This saves time and money across the board downstream, because:
– everyone works with the same reliable information.
– analysis, reporting, and visualizations can be automated.
Consistently structured data is easier to understand and use. Users don’t need to be BIM experts; more users means more value.
Enriched BIM data opens up use cases that were not possible before – as well as large-scale analytics and reliable AI-driven insights.
Many BIM tools create data silos: you can work with the data, but it stays trapped inside the application.
Simplebim doesn’t create data silos – it connects them and removes bottlenecks! It makes your data flow.
After processing the data, use it in your favourite BIM tool and platform – or effortlessly integrate it into your company’s wider data ecosystem.
The processed data is ready to support a wide range of use cases:
QTO – Cost estimation – Production planning and scheduling – Logistics – Procurement – Tendering – Site management – Energy analysis – Design coordination – and more.
The data is always consistent and complete. In every model. For every discipline. In every project.
Simplebim is for anyone who needs to process IFC model data efficiently and scalably.
Our users include construction companies, property owners, BIM and project managers, design offices, data scientists.
Processed data serves different needs across stakeholders: There are thousands of use cases for the data!
“If files have missing information or are incorrect, we use Simplebim to clean and retrieve the right data, before giving it to the construction site for work.”
Janis Dzenis, BIM Coordinator, Merks
Whether you are taking your first steps with BIM or looking to reach the next level, the Simplebim team and global partner network are here for you. We are the world's leading BIM data experts. Close co-operation with our forward-thinking users worldwide in the last 15 years has made us even better. Let's make BIM work for you.
Dataflows are a proved method in the data industry to clean up, restructure, enrich and validate data automatically. They are at the heart of every modern, automated data pipeline.
Simplebim brings this power to BIM, tailored for complex model data, that generic tools can’t handle.
The goal is very simple: transform raw data into useful information. Automatically.
Start with the ready-made dataflows included with the product license, or build your own from scratch.
Start small: automatically clean up models or generate sub-models. Or go BIG: enrich your model with quantities, derived objects, and external data sources.
Simplebim’s intuitive UI makes creating, testing, and running dataflows fast and easy. You’ll be a dataflow wizard in no time.
Simplebim includes 100+ industry_leading data processing actions, and a growing library of ready-made dataflows.
Mix and match them to fit your needs: only your imagination is the limit!
With Simplebim you can serve any data need in the downstream.
The power of dataflows is in automating repetitive tasks. Create them once, and you can reuse them across models, updates, or entire projects. Repetitively.
The more you use them, the more value they create: share them across your organization.
The heart of every BIM dataflow.
Import and deep-merge open BIM models from any discipline, including infra models: Simplebim supports all relevant IFC versions.
Use powerful data visualization tools to explore the model: 3D view, table, model tree and properties palette.
→ “Quickly find all relevant data and properties.”
Raw data comes in a mixed format from different parties. You can make it consistent.
– use the same property naming convention;
– normalize property values;
– harmonize the model tree;
– group and classify objects;
– and more.
→ “Consistently structured data makes everything easier and more efficient.”
Raw data is messy and heavy. You can change this.
– Easily remove incorrect and unnecessary data;
– reduce file size, saving storage space;
– generate sub-models for different purposes.
→ “Make the data more reliable, light and efficient for the downstream.”
The model data you get is not complete: you can add what is missing!
Classify building elements – Calculate consistent quantities – Organize objects into locations – Generate new objects – Calculate new measures with formulas – Merge data from outer sources – Connect objects based on their proximity – Automatically generate foreign data keys – Colorize -Transform – And more…
→ “Complete EVERY model into a BIM data masterpiece”
BIM data is not always correct and precise. You can validate it.
Use Simplebim’s range constraints, format checking and cross-field validation – Check and convert data types – Validate set-member constraints and enumerations.
Experience how easy it can be to fix data issues automatically – or report them back using the open BCF.
→ “High quality data enables high quality analysis, visualizations and insights.”
Simplebim is a truly open BIM solution: export data in the right format back to IFC, or as data tables to CSV and Excel.
Your results are visible and shareable, not only in Simplebim but in all BIM and BI-tools.
→ “Since your data is consistent, you can create reusable dashboards and analysis rules for everybody to use.”
Automated and centralized BIM data processing is the next necessary leap for a successful construction digitalization. Become a BIM data processing expert and elevate your projects. Be among the first to master BIM dataflows. Boost your career, and make your company shine. Join the Simplebim Community.
Working with BIM data has never been this fun. Efficient. Scalable. Surprisingly easy. Simply amazing.
Simplebim is the best BIM data processing solution on the market.
Now is the time to join the BIM data revolution.
Picture credits: Datacubist Oy. Sample models from RAVA3Pro Finland project.
You cannot use data if you are not allowed to touch it, can you? Think about it. What is the first thing you do in Excel when you start working with the data? You rearrange columns, you may rename them. You correct the values or fill in the empty ones. You add a new column to enrich your data with calculations. Then you create a graph and use the data.
What Simplebim does to IFC data is no different. It is just that IFC is a much more complex data structure than a simple table in Excel. And Simplebim does much more advanced things to the BIM model data than just adding columns.
That said, Simplebim does not even edit your original IFC file. It imports and merges IFC files, processes them, and then exports the processed data back to IFC or to data tables. The original always file stays the same!
BIM (Building Information Model or Modelling) can refer to the actual models but also to the modelling process. The BIM models include 3D objects representing building elements, their properties, and connections between the different elements.
There are many definitions for BIM out there, but in more general terms BIM is a tool for the mind. It expands our human capabilities to design, analyze and communicate building information. An average person can on keep 5-9 things in working memory. Even a small BIM model can have tens of thousands of building elements and hundreds of thousands of properties. Not to mention the details that go into representing the 3D geometry of a building.
With the help of BIM we can manage this huge amount of data. BIM helps us create building information in an efficient way. This huge amount of data can be exchanged with other persons or applications in a blink of an eye. The data can be analyzed and simulated in ways that were not even possible before.
Simplebim is one of these incredible tools for the mind.
IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) is a standard data format for building information models. It can be used for exchanging BIM models between BIM solutions. IFC file or model can include data about 3D objects representing building elements, their properties and connections between the different elements.
An important property of IFC is that it is an open format. It is not controlled by any individual commercial entity.
IFC is the most widely supported BIM format in the industry, and thus a very powerful and flexible way to exchange BIM data.
Yes, IFC is a standard, but no, it doesn’t guarantee consistent, complete and usable data. For that you need a smart BIM workflow and BIM data processing.