Simplebim is an openBIM software application. It manages BIM data.

Simplebim makes the

model data consistent and rich and thus makes model data fit for your purposes. No matter who
created it, using which 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 for simple BIM data management like when exchanging BIM models to
site surveying equipment, quantity take-off software or to energy analysis. It can also be used to
manage all the BIM data for big construction companies, hundreds of projects, tens of thousands
of models a year.

Simplebim is a tool for openBIM data management. It is used for cleaning-up, standardizing and
enriching models for example to be used in production. The data is further shared with
downstream applications and used in IFC or Excel format.

In practice this means adding your own properties to the model. This set of properties used in
every model, from all the disciplines and in every project. You can then automatically classify
the building elements according to your own classifications. Simplebim calculates consistent
quantities from the geometry, no matter where the model comes from. You can define locations
for the building elements in an automated way. The models can be further enriched by deriving
new information with formulas or by merging data from outer source. 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. You are able to save one or more
standardized and enriched IFC models, or even Excel files, and use the enriched data in truly
openBIM downstream workflows.

Simplebim gives you full control over the BIM data you use and share. Instead of trying to
manage BIM data in a distributed and manual way in each model author and other BIM tool
separately, in Simplebim you manage the data in a centralized, automated and scalable way.

Simplebim allows you and your network to do the right things at the right time and by the right
people. Processing BIM data at the right place reduces and simplifies BIM requirements
significantly. The requirements set for the designers can be minimized. This also simplifies the
BIM related design coordination. The roles and liabilities become clear. Instead of trying to force
others to do things for you, you are able to control the information you need by yourself. This
unlocks huge possibilities for BIM.

The Simplebim BIM workflow can be adapted to projects of any size in an agile way, especially
when the needs grow as you and your network learn and get better at it. Instead of being bound
to the slow progress of the international or national standard, BIM requirements and BIM
guideline development work, or the timetables of the multinational design software and platform
providers, with Simplebim you are in charge.

Simplebim was created to enable building information data exchange and BIM data usage on
a large scale. Its goal is to enable the use of BIM data for a large number of construction
professionals, not just the BIM experts.
The construction industry is a very diverse and complex working environment. There are a lot of
different parties and software applications involved in its processes. Exchanging data in this
environment in a reliable and efficient way is very hard. For years the industry has tried to solve
this issue by adding more and more standards, BIM requirements and BIM guidelines to the
process. Instead of making the workflow more efficient and effective, these have added more and
more manual work. Basically making the data exchange even harder.

BIM data exchange is just like any other thing in the world. With the right tools it can be made
more efficient. Simplebim is this tool. We solve the issues with technology, simplifying the
process instead of adding more restrictions and manual work. Simplebim makes BIM data
consistent, rich and fit for purpose on a large scale for a large number of users. It maximizes the
return of your BIM investment.

We are already using an IFC viewer, why do we need Simplebim?

You get the most benefits out of any BIM tool, if the data is consistent, rich and fit for purpose.
Whether you are using Solibri, BIM Vision, Dalux viewer or anything else. These viewers don’t
make data consistent or rich or fit for purpose. Simplebim does.

Using viewers especially with inconsistent data requires BIM experts. The goal of Simplebim is
to make BIM data valuable and available in a scalable way to any industry professional –
especially for people who are not BIM experts.

We are already using a model checker, why do we need Simplebim?

First, customers tell us that clash detection and information take-off work much better, when the
models are first enriched and standardized with Simplebim.

Second, model checkers like Solibri, BIMCollab Zoom, Navisworks and many others are very
good tools for design coordination but trying to use them to solve BIM data inconsistency issues
leads to a distributed, slow and rigid BIM workflow. Check out the answers to the following
questions to learn more: What is the biggest technical issue in BIM data exchange? What is the
biggest workflow issue in BIM data exchange? And How does Simplebim enable the best
possible BIM workflow?

Simplebim’s unique, centralized and automated way of making data consistent, rich and fit for
purpose is the best available solution to manage BIM data consistency for downstream
applications – including model checking and ITO.

We are already using a model author tool, why do we need Simplebim?

Model author tools have been created to support design and design documentation. If you are a
designer, then this of course what you want. Using Simplebim together with your model author
tools helps you to make your open BIM workflow consistent and efficient.

Model author tools are nowadays also marketed for other use cases than just design. Consider
carefully if you want to use these expensive and complex tools for something they were not
designed to do, for example to support production.

Instead of using the native formats and building and maintaining your processes and automation
rules for each format separately, open BIM is a superior way of working. Simplebim allows you
to get most out of it.

We are already using Revit, why do we need Simplebim?

Revit, just like all the other model author tools, is very flexible. With it you can reach the same
end-result with different techniques. The application doesn’t force you to create the model in a
specific way. So, as the result two Revit users can create two different kinds of Revit models. If
you export them to IFC, they are different. If you try to use these same models in Autodesk’s
‘internal’ BIM workflow, they will still be different.

Using the same format for the data does not solve the data inconsistency issues. However, using
an open format, like IFC, will give you more possibilities in downstream applications. Revit (and
other model author tools) are very good for design, but for other functions there are a lot of other
brilliant solutions out there. Open BIM, IFC, allows you and your partner network to find and
use the best possible tools for any given BIM usage. With Simplebim you make the models
consistent and get the most out of them.

We are already using a construction management solution, why do we need Simplebim?

Most of the construction management solutions, like Procore, were created and still are
concentrating managing document/drawing-based workflows. Nowadays they have BIM
features, but they assume that the BIM data is already in perfect shape. They do not usually have
good tools for making the data consistent, rich and fit for purpose like Simplebim does.
Simplebim fully supports the open BIM workflow. Using Simplebim alongside these systems
gives you full control over BIM data and you get most out of BIM data. Not just in one project,
but consistently in all your projects.
We are already using a BIM based quantity take-off solution, why do we need Simplebim?

BIM based QTO is as good as the data you are using. Most of the BIM based quantity take-off
solutions assume, that the data is already fit for purpose. However, in order to get the most out of
BIM based QTO you need consistent, rich and fit for purpose data. Not just in one project, but
consistently in all your projects. These solutions don’t have tools for making the data consistent,
rich and fit for the purpose like Simplebim does.

Note also, that Simplebim has features like geometry-based quantity calculation, classification
tools, and even the most innovative Excel connection in the market to support bill of quantities
and bill of material workflows.

We already have BIM experts, why do we need Simplebim?

BIM is not and should not be just for BIM experts. The real value, the ultimate return of
investment from BIM comes from large scale use. If you want to scale the BIM benefits, then it
is not enough that you have a couple of BIM experts working for you. Consider this: If you
always need BIM experts to deliver BIM data in your projects, then how many projects can one
person really handle? There is a multitude of use cases for BIM. How realistic is it, that one BIM
expert can understand and handle all the diverse needs from all the different disciplines in your
company? BIM and BIM software does not make people supermen or women. The better
workflow is to use Simplebim to make the data consistent, rich and fit for purpose in an
automated and centralized way. After this, the data is so easy to use, that anyone can learn how
to find the information they need. Even, and especially the non-BIM experts. Not just in one
project, but consistently in all your projects.