Hello there!

Half of the year is gone already (time flies!). And before diving into your next project milestone, take a moment to catch up with the latest BIMcollab updates. In this Tech Tip edition, you'll discover new COBie resources, a smarter way to visualize Issues and Conflicts in the WebViewer, and practical tips to improve your daily workflows.

Start your COBie workflow with confidence

Our toolkit is not designed for last-minute reviews. Instead, it encourages teams to integrate COBie validation into their OpenBIM workflows from the early stages of a project.

Ready to get started? Visit our Help Center to download the BIMcollab COBie preparation toolkit and start building better COBie workflows.

To get you fully onboarded into the asset validation world, we've also launched a new free BIMcollab Academy course.

Designed for both newcomers and experienced BIM professionals, this course provides a practical introduction to the COBie standard and its role within OpenBIM, and most importantly, you'll learn how to adapt our toolkit to match your custom project requirements. 

Make coordination meetings more productive with Issue Pins

Finding and understanding Issues is much easier when you can see them directly in your model. Issue Pins use practical visual markers to display your Issues and Conflicts in the WebViewer, without switching between endless lists and plain viewpoints.

These allow teams to quickly recognize problematic areas and identify issues’ status at a glance. Simply click a pin to access additional details and gain a better understanding of the issue or conflict in its model context. Would you like to give it a try? See if Issues pins are part of your subscription plan and access our Help Center to get more details.

BIMcollab Tips 

Measure with confidence using grids

Make use of the point-to-point measurement tool in the WebViewer to easily get perpendicular distances between your components and grids in your project.

Keep your team aligned with shared Smart Views

Consistency is key during model coordination. When Smart Views are shared through a BIMcollab project, every team member can access the same review criteria, visual filters, and saved property rules. Instead of creating validation checks individually, coordinators can prepare Smart Views once and share them with the entire project team. 

"At our Inspire & Connect event in Hamburg, a customer shared how their team uses IDS validation in Zoom as a precheck before running Lists: 'I'll be honest, I was flabbergasted.'

The logic is simple but brilliant: before they run and share their Lists, they first fire a quick IDS check across all incoming models to confirm the required properties are available and correct. Only when the IDS passes do they run the Lists and share with the team. IDS used as a coordination gate, not just a quality tool." 

André Schnabel

BIMcollab Head of Customer Success

• …All models loaded in the WebViewer are now also accessible from the Documents tab?

• …You can speed up your issue creation in Zoom by copying the values from your last created issues? Use this function to boost your reviews.

• …Users can now search within PDFs directly in BIMcollab’s file viewer? Helping you find the information you need faster.