Simplebim 9.0 (5.7.2021)

New Features

• Bimsheet. Simply drag and drop data to link it with your existing Excel calculations. You can then visualize your calculations in 3D by selecting for example a cell with a sum in your Excel spreadsheet. You can switch any time from Simplebim to Excel and back, and even save your Bimsheet logic to be used with new versions of your model or in new projects. Enriching your models with new data has also never been this easy! Simply save a Bimsheet from your model, open it in Excel, fill in new data, and open the edited Bimsheet in Simplebim. Simplebim will merge your changes to the model and you are ready to save your enriched IFC file!
• Location Editing. In constructions everything happens in a location. However, everybody has their own take on locations, be it sections, building storeys, apartments, concrete pours or anything else you can imagine. Communicating these ever evolving and often overlapping locations is a hassle, but with Simplebim you can easily model your own locations and be sure that you always have exactly the location information you need. In Simplebim you can use 3D location prisms of any shape and form to add location information to objects inside these prisms. You can even have Simplebim cut objects, like walls and slabs, at prism boundaries to create separate objects for each prism. With Simplebim 9 you can now model, modify, move and copy these location prisms right inside Simplebim.
• New Helmert Transformation tool for transforming models to on-site coordinate systems to support site surveying
• New Move and Rotate tool for automating move and rotate operations
• New Create Space Coverings tool for generating covering objects (IfcCovering) for spaces

Enhancements

• Stored Groups. Store groups in the Properties palette to use them with new versions of the same model or even in other projects.
• Stored Tables. You can now save your tables to be reused with new versions of your model and even in other projects.
• Export all tabs at once to Excel from the Table palette
• Show all objects in the whole model in the Properties palette
• Pop out a Properties palette from any 3D tooltip
• Isolate values in the Properties palette to dig deeper into your data
• Show measure values with full accuracy in the Properties palette
• Show sums for measure values in the Properties palette
• Configuration dialogs for tools enabling the configuration of tools when running them from the user interface. Support for stored profiles.
• Drag and drop menus replacing Ctrl, Shift and Alt modifiers when dropping objects to the Objects and Properties palettes. New drag&drop functions, like remove and intersect.
• New shortcut buttons for common tasks in the 3D window
• Improved handling at IFC export of multi-coloured objects that share geometries with other similar objects.
• Possibility to disable automatic updates
• Support for objects larger than 10km
• Template system optimizations
• Adding empty groups via templates
• Applying templates via 3D drag and drop. Simply drag and drop a template file on the 3D window to apply that template.
• New options for merging sites and buildings by name at IFC merge.
• IFC merge protected against merging IFC models with different IFC versions
• Option added for making classification systems unique, i.e. that one object can have only one classification in each classification system.
• Improved reliability and reporting when activating and releasing licenses
• Trial and actual license activation moved into same dialog for avoiding confusion
• Updated version of the BCF Manager supports clipping planes New function for swapping existing clipping planes in the 3D window

Bug Fixes

• Very annoying workspace corruption bug fixed
• Minor bug fixes in the template system
• Bug fixed in the local placement of distribution ports at IFC export
• Bug fixed in updating the Model Filter dialog when opened the first time
• Bug fixes in Property Value Editor
• Bug fixed in copying measure values to string values (used to write unrounded value with ??? unit)

Other Changes

• Running scripts on the Simplebim desktop version is limited to one script at a time for one license
• Off-line activation and releasing licenses off-line moved to License Monitor
• Excel export replaced with exporting with BIM Sheet (Create Legacy Excel Export)

Known Limitations

• Not all new functionality has been fully localized to all supported languages. Our plan is to improve the localizations in upcoming Simplebim 9 service releases