The missing piece between your BIM models and everyone who needs their data.
Clean. Standardize. Enrich. validate. BIM data. Every downstream use case served.
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The missing piece of your BIM workflow
You already invest in tools to “Create” your models and “Store” them. You already invest in tools to “Analyse” the results and “Communicate” them to your team.
What’s missing is a tool to “Process” BIM data.
Simplebim turns designers’ models into data that everyone downstream can use. Consistently. Automatically.
Skip the Processing stage – and your BIM team ends up doing that transformation by hand. Wasting the company’s money, time, and expertise.
What Simplebim Users Say
“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.”
“With Simplebim, model validation takes minutes and provides us with consistent outputs.”
“I took the model and spent just one day delivering what it would have taken five people over 10 days to deliver.”
“When the models are well structured, it makes it much easier for non-BIM specialists to access the data, which helps with more accurate decision making.”
“Thanks to Simplebim our team can standardize the alphanumeric data from multiple sources.”
Simplebim Desktop
Best merge – Best processing – Best export.
Simplebim Desktop
• Import or 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.
Simplebim Cloud
Taking it to the next level.
Simplebim Cloud
• Create, test and run Dataflows in Simplebim Desktop: For individual projects and models, this is all you need.
• For full-scale automation, publish your dataflows to Simplebim Cloud.
• Connect to your data storage. Set up the automation and monitor the progress in the web app. Simplebim Cloud will automatically process your models whenever there is an update. In any number of projects, for any number of models.
What’s New in Simplebim 12
Base Model
Consistent data structures. On every model. For everybody.
Simplebim 12 includes Base Model dataflows, which standardize your models’ data structures automatically. No agreement marathons, no rebuilding the same data structure project after project.
Simplebim Cloud
Fully automated BIM data processing.
Dataflows built by your best BIM person don’t stay on their laptop. Publish them to Simplebim Cloud. Process thousands of models – in all of your projects, fully automatically.
New 3D Window
Extremely fast. Pleasure to look at.
Fast to load. Smooth to navigate. Modern, easy-to-read rendering. Easier to measure. Full control over clipping planes.
Simplebim AI Expert
Help, always available.
Stuck on a dataflow at 6pm? Get the answer and detailed instructions immediately. Our Simplebim-focused AI agent knows everything about Simplebim.
Your Benefits
• Save time and money
When creating and collecting BIM data
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.
• Save time and money
When using BIM data
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.
• Say No to isolated data silos
Integrate data to your favourite platform
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.
• High-quality data
For all construction professionals
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.
• More users, more use cases
Multiply your BIM ROI
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.
• No matter where models come from
Everything you do, scales more
100+ Tools. 25+ ready-made Dataflows you don’t have to build from zero.
The models your team receives are first standardized through Simplebim Base Model.
Everything you build or enrich with Dataflows becomes reusable across models, projects, and teams.
Countless Use Cases
Quantity Take-Off
Consistent quantities you can trust: that’s the premise for correct and scalable work.
Site Management
Every model aligned to real-world coordinates: what’s on site matches what’s on screen.
Facility Management
Know what’s in every room and section. Use the data in your asset management tool.
Cost Estimation
Real numbers your team can actually stand behind.
Scheduling
Location and takt data are attached to objects: you always know what happens where.
Logistics
What’s arriving, where it goes, when – straight from the model, not a manual spreadsheet.
Procurement
Order the right quantity: with standardized data nothing gets double-counted or missed.
Tendering
Bidders with consistent data means fewer questions, fewer surprises, faster tenders
Energy and other Analysis
Feed your analysis tools clean and enriched data they can read – without hours of manual fixes.
Design Coordination
Consistent data means connecting it across all disciplines and design applications.
Built by BIM forerunners – Driven by forward-thinkers
The Simplebim Community – Much more than a support center!
Most BIM data work happens alone, late in the day, staring at a property panel that makes no sense… In the Simplebim Community, someone could have already solved that problem!
Check out the discussions – or start a new one.
Join the first global network of forward-thinking BIM professionals who want to deliver smarter models.
BIM Answers & BIM Mindset Shifts
What is BIM?
BIM 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.
What is IFC file or model?
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.
Is “Processing IFC data” same as “Editing IFC data”?
Manually editing IFC model data might fix it once.
Processing IFC data keeps it working – across updates, models, projects, and teams.
Is it allowed to process or edit IFC?
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!
Clashes, collisions.. You can do more! Learn to exploit data connections.
Instead of just flagging them as ‘errors’, derive 3D Objects that represent them! With own geometry, own quantities, and own data. A powerful shift.
Simplebim object Groups aren’t just selections of objects !
Simplebim groups are our intent and knowledge “captured” in the model.
A BIM mindset shift with very practical benefits! Deepen this here.
Stop wasting time, money, and expertise between the models you receive and everyone who needs them.
For this, we’ve been developing Simplebim for the past two decades.
Today, Simplebim is the most powerful BIM data processing solution on the market.
Picture credits: Datacubist Oy. Sample models from RAVA3Pro Finland project.