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Get started with BIMcollab

Learn how to set up your first BIMcollab project and get started with key functionalities.

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BIMcollab is an online environment designed to optimize every stage of your BIM project.


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Model Quality Assurance (MQA) enables seamless web-based BIM coordination by integrating directly with various modeling and checking tools, streamlining your issue workflows.


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Model Validation ensures your models are accurate and insightful, with advanced features like Smart Views, Conflict Detection, Smart Properties, and Lists. When both Issue Management and Model Validation are used together, you can detect conflicts related to your IDS (Information Delivery Specification) requirements and create Smart Issues that automatically resolve themselves when the underlying model issues are fixed.


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Finally, the Common Data Environment (CDE) supports project documentation well beyond the design and construction phases, helping you manage documents throughout the full building lifecycle.
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Then, you can explore and download various BIMcollab tools to enhance your workflow and connect seamlessly with your projects.
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Set-up your Issues management project

  1. Get Started with Issues management

  2. Explore the example project

  3. Set your language

  4. Create a new project
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Organize your first project

  1. Set up and explore your BIMcollab Trial

  2. Add and invite team members in a space

  3. Define project properties

  4. Set up BIMcollab Model WebViewer for the project

  5. Monitoring BIM projects in graphs

  6. Good issue management

Connect from add-ons

  1. Connect from BCF Managers or BIMcollab Zoom application

  2. Connect from Solibri

  3. Commenting and editing issues
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Start with Model validation

  1. Get started with Model validation

  2. Explore the example project

  3. Browse through a federated model

  4. Setting up your BIMcollab Trial
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Start with the CDE

  1. Get started with Document management as an Administrator

  2. Set up your personal details

  3. Get familiar with the available functionalities

  4. Review the space structure

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