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Bimble

Bimble is an open-source structural BIM tool for engineering offices. It is fast on old machines, uses IFC as its data model, and treats the drawing as the product.

With Bimble you can:

  • open IFC files and look at them: 3D views, plans looking down or up and sections with a view range, another office's plan on top to check it against, filters by material, IFC class and storey, a section box, measuring, a view cube;
  • compare your model with another one, such as the architect's IFC, and see what only one of them has;
  • draw storey plans at scale (1:1 to 1:5000) on A4 to A0, as PDF, SVG or PNG. Plans can have grid axes, dimension chains, a legend and your office's title block;
  • convert any IFC into an editable .bimble model, edit it (columns, beams, walls, slabs by their dimensions; every other element moved and versioned) with undo, and version it: commits, branches, merges and a shared folder to work together, like Git but element by element;
  • share a model for viewing as a small .bimbleview file that opens in seconds, also in a browser;
  • do all of it in a browser, with nothing to install. The files you open stay on your computer.

The demo frame in Bimble, here in a browser

A preview

Bimble is young. It reads IFC for viewing and plans, and edits .bimble models converted from them. Report what doesn't work in the issues.

Where to start