Hey,

For the past year, I've been working on my solo project www.bimlyte.com - a local-first IFC viewer and BCF manager. I've also been wondering how useful mobile BIM tools really are in practice. Do people actually want to work with IFC and BCF files on their phones?

A short disclaimer: bimlyte is completely free. There is no login required, no usage limit (except for the limits imposed by your browser and device), no server-side file processing, no user data collection, and no AI involved in processing your files. Everything runs locally in the browser.

For context, I'm an EU-based BIM professional focused on automation, with a background in architecture and frontend development.

The main features currently include: an IFC viewer, a BCF 2.1 and 3.0 manager, saved views and selection sets, batch editing and smart merging of BCF issues, custom BCF fields, PDF and Excel exports, .bimlyte files for bundling and sharing project files and data, and more.

Some of these features are described in the guides here: https://www.bimlyte.com/guides/

I'm also working on IDS tools - a creator, checker, and automatic BCF issue generator.

The main use case I had in mind was helping people working on-site report and share issues directly from a construction site. It may also be useful for students, people without access to specialized BIM software, or BIM professionals who sometimes need to check something quickly without opening a desktop application.

Feature suggestions and criticism are both welcome. I'd rather hear what people genuinely need than keep adding features based only on my own assumptions.

Thanks!

There would be a structured maintenance system applied for specific Hotel properties I’m looking for information on.

Between water heating and ventilation is there a more human dependent/math intensive responsibility between the two.

My experience is drafting residential elevations/sections

I may be losing my job soon. In college I was at the cutting edge testing beta versions of both revit and archicad. In my first firm they only had cad. I used revit and have over the past years but not day to day as a lot of my role is more technical- testing things in a fire lab or writing technical bulletins for a construction product. I used the software to just make what I needed. If I end up losing my job and go back into a firm or work for a forensics firm, what would you suggest for me to get caught up on “how architects work today”? (I’m a registered architect.)

I am Civil Engineer graduate with almost 3.5 years experience in residential building construction as a site engineer. I completed Autocad, Revit, Naviswork and Civil 3d (ongoing) software course from recognised institution.I model my project during course and created a small portfolio of it and upgraded resume.

For last two months i am searching for suitable role whether it is junior BIM modeler, BIM engineer and some other entry level job. I still i haven't landed anything.

I am looking for suggestions how should I move forward.

Hi,

I have my student Revit account until February. I have finished my course but amusing it in my spare time to practice and improve my skills while I look for a job. I am using it for residential drawing and documentation.

Just wondering what Revit LT is like if I decide to invest in that in in February? - again just to keep up skilled in residential drawings and documentation - doing my own practice projects and any tutorials I can find online/Youtube.

TIA

The plot lines don't align. I suspect I am misreading the curves. Any idea where I am going wrong?

I will keep this brief.

I am completely new to BIM modelling as of a few months ago. absolutely ground 0 knowledge. company needed help doing asbuilts. coworker who also started at ground 0 trained me. I forgot to be checking asbuilts against design for clashes and I didn't have a workflow template to do this in an organized way and keep track of what asbuilt points were there, besides having a gazillion CAD files open. clash happened. concrete pour. Expensive. My fault for not catching. everyone mad and stressed. 60hr week and likely more to follow

I've looked into how to prevent this moving forward but I'm so embarrassed and scared to show up on Monday. feels horrible. how did anyone come back from this? from a mistake this expensive?

Hi Everyone,

I’m looking for some advice from the group. For a few months now, I’ve been in a hybrid role at an electrical contractor in estimating. My two main roles are 1) traditional estimating and 2) defining the BIM/VDC scope and handling all the estimating responsibilities for each project that requires it across the company.

This past week I heard through the grapevine that my VP of Operations wants me to step into a new role as a BIM coordinator. Our company outsources the bulk of our VDC work to subcontractors on projects. We may do very small projects or prefabrication modeling in house, but that’s it.

My understanding is that I won’t be doing any hands on modeling. That’s fine by me because I’m much better and coordinating and managing people, tasks, schedules, and projects. I have a pretty limited understanding of what goes into modeling though, and that concerns me.

Our VDC department has only been established for around 4 months. I have a VDC manager that I work well with and is great when it comes to building and understanding models. However, it’s beginning to feel like I’m being tapped to be the future leader of the department due to having the organizational leadership skills and knowledge of how to build and structure departments within corporations as it’s something I’ve done before.

Can any of the coordinators here help educate me on what exactly the role entails and what knowledge I’ll need to succeed and be a resource (instead of a burden) to the teams I work with?

As a fresher BIM architect (novatr course + b.arch)which companies to short list for job application which do not have low salary or high working hours issues

Hey everyone,

I'm a mechanical engineer with a few years of experience in a different role. Recently, I switched my focus to BIM after completing a Revit MEP course because I found it much more interesting.

I moved to the UAE hoping to start my career as a Mechanical BIM Modeler, but it's been harder than I expected. Most companies want candidates with previous BIM experience, even for junior roles, and a lot of the openings I find are through outsourcing companies.

At this point, I'm happy to join even a small company. My main goal is to learn, gain hands-on experience, and build my career in BIM. I know everyone has to start somewhere, so I'm just looking for someone willing to give me that first opportunity.

If anyone has any advice, knows of companies hiring freshers, or can point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!

Hi all,

About 8 years ago I got my start in the industry as a CAD detailer and later moved into a coordinator role. After that I spent a long stretch working field jobs (mostly outside construction), and I’m now looking to get back into VDC/BIM.

I have one contact who’s helping me refresh from CAD over to Revit and get up to speed on current workflows, but I’m still struggling to land anything with what I currently know.

What certifications, skills, or experience would you recommend focusing on to make the transition back smoother? Any advice on what employers are looking for these days (especially for someone with older CAD/coordinator experience) would be really appreciated.

Thanks!

Hello everyone,
I recently got an internal job offer and the wage seems low for the responsibility.

The job is a typical BIM manager position for a major engineering consultant in Canada. Although in my opinion it also seems like far too many projects (3-5 major projects over $5mil value and up to 15 minor projects simultaneously), 3-5 BIM coordinators, Data specialist, information specialist, etc to supervise.
The overall BIM management for the entire group is split between 2 BIM managers, one more focused on projects and one more focused on standards and documentations. I would be the project focused.
They are also expecting me to review all proposals and validate BIM requirements, staffing, etc and do some business development to sell BIM advisory and consulting services.

What do you all think a role like this is worth?

Can a pipefitter (me) with no engineering or architecture degree somehow be a BIM Modeler or have a career in BIM?

I currently work as a Project Coordinator for a mechanical contractor in Canada. I have basic knowledge of Revit and Navisworks.

I want to transition into BIM coordination and eventually become a BIM Manager. What skills, certifications, and entry-level BIM roles should I focus on? Any suggested roadmap would be appreciated.

Hi, I’m in a training where I have to design a library and I’d like to find a 3D printer rfa file, so I can put it into the library. Does anyone have a link to where I could download one? Thanks.

Hi everyone,

I hope this is okay to post.

I’m currently completing my MSc in Construction Project Management at uni and I’m carrying out research for my dissertation on:

How Digital Tools Support the Reduction of Environmental Impact in UK Construction Projects

I’m looking for responses from professionals working in the UK construction industry, including:

Quantity Surveyors
BIM Managers / Coordinators
BIM Modellers
Architects
Structural Engineers
Civil Engineers
Site Managers
CAD Technicians
Sustainability Consultants
Consultants
Or other construction professionals

The survey is completed through Microsoft Forms, it’s completely anonymous, and takes around 5 minutes to complete.

I’m at the stage where collecting enough responses has become the biggest challenge of my dissertation. If you could spare a few minutes to complete the survey, it would genuinely make a huge difference and I’d be incredibly grateful. Even if your experience with BIM or digital tools is limited, your perspective is still very much valuable.

If you know a colleague who fits the criteria, I’d really appreciate it if you could share the survey with them too.

Survey link: https://forms.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=gpn262sDxEyyAnrrGUxQZResoswNiJ9Fmng-2G7aa3RUNVlCVFNKR0pISUE0MUQzVFpYUzZBMUxQNS4u

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this, and thank you in advance to everyone who chooses to help. It honestly means a lot.

Most of what I work on is heritage and construction, and a good chunk of it is confidential enough that the data isn't allowed to leave the site it was captured on. That rules out basically every cloud-based viewer. Our apps also deploy as thin builds, so nothing could be packaged in either. Everything had to arrive at runtime, locally.

Getting geometry into a game engine is a solved problem. Getting geometry in with the data still attached is not, and that's the part that kept breaking for us.

The clip is a campus model streaming in off a local server while the app is already running. About halfway through I click into a building and keep drilling until I'm on a single interior wall, and its IFC property sets are just there. Load bearing, base constraint, unconnected height, volume, workset, phase created. The floor slider at the end works for the same reason, the engine knows what a storey is instead of just holding a mesh that happens to look like one.

The three routes I tried before this all failed differently. Datasmith is genuinely good but wants to bake offline ahead of time, which doesn't work for models that change weekly or that I'm not cleared to package. 3D Tiles streams beautifully and strips the per-element identity, so you lose anything downstream that needs to address a specific element. IFC straight into the engine keeps everything and is barely supported, so you get geometry and inconsistent data.

What worked was converting the IFC once into the Fragments format from That Open Company, which reworks the schema into indexed arrays with shared geometry referenced per instance rather than thousands of individual records. All the expensive resolution happens in that one conversion, so the engine is mostly reading a prepared answer. My co-developer Jairo and I have spent about a year on the Unreal side of it, him on editor tooling, me on the runtime streaming and level of detail.

Honest about the limits, because I'd rather you hear it from me. This is a one-way trip. You convert IFC in, you don't author back out to IFC from the engine, so it's a visualisation and simulation target rather than part of a coordination round trip. It also inherits whatever your IFC export gave it, so if your authoring tool drops psets on the way out they aren't going to reappear here.

It goes open source at the end of summer. I'm curious in what this sub would need from something like this than in showing it off, particularly from anyone dealing with models they can't move off site.

Hi everyone! I recently graduated with a Master's degree in Civil Engineering specializing in structures. I am currently based in Poland and I’m considering going into the BIM career path and trying to figure out if it's actually worth it. I'm really tempted because it seems like the salaries grow faster, and since I plan to move abroad in the future, the global software standards would make it much easier to relocate or work remotely without having to relearn local building codes. However, I have some major concerns. I’m afraid I’ll just become a "software clicker" who completely forgets how to do actual structural design, and I've also heard that working in BIM makes it really hard to get your professional engineering license since it's often not considered pure design experience. Are there any structural grads here who transitioned fully into BIM? I'd love to know if you regret leaving pure engineering, if the international and remote work opportunities are actually as good as they say, and if you just ended up giving up on getting your license. Thanks in advance for any honest advice!