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What is Free BIM Software?
BIM (Building Information Modeling) software is a powerful tool used by architects, engineers, and construction professionals to create, manage, and analyze digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of buildings or infrastructure. BIM software integrates data across the entire lifecycle of a building, from design and construction to operation and maintenance, improving collaboration among teams and streamlining workflows. These platforms allow users to visualize 3D models, simulate performance, and coordinate the placement of structural, electrical, and plumbing systems. They also help in detecting conflicts, reducing waste, and optimizing resource allocation. By using BIM, stakeholders can ensure better project outcomes, higher quality designs, and more efficient construction processes. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free BIM software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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SkyCiv Structural 3D
SkyCiv Engineering
SkyCiv Structural 3D is a cloud-based Structural Analysis software that allows users to model, analyze and design complex 3D structures. It is completely online; requiring no installation to use. SkyCiv Structural 3D offers the very best in online structural analysis. It includes the following: - Powerful Analysis: Linear, P-Delta, Cables, Buckling, Plates, Frequency, RS - Integrated Design checks for steel, wood, connections, foundations, wind (AISC, NSD, AISI, EN, AS, CSA, BS plus more...)Starting Price: $79/month/user -
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OpenProject
OpenProject
OpenProject is free and open source project management software. It supports classic, agile as well as hybrid project management. OpenProject enables distributed teams to collaborate throughout the entire project lifecycle, from initial planning to project execution and documentation. The software is available in over 30 languages. Core functions and use cases of OpenProject are: - Project portfolio management - Project planning and scheduling - Task management and issue tracking - Agile Boards (Scrum and Kanban) - Requirements management and release planning - Time and cost tracking, budget planning - Team collaboration and documentation The Community edition can be downloaded and installed for free. For enterprise customers, Berlin-based OpenProject GmbH offers a hosted cloud edition as well as an on-premises edition with support, as well premium features, and additional security features.Starting Price: €247.50 per year -
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Cupix
Cupix
Cupix is the trusted partner of choice for delivering the industry’s most flexible and easiest-to-deploy 3D digital twin platform to builders and owners everywhere. Capture your Jobsite in 3D with our simple-to-use mobile app while controlling a 360 camera. Then collaborate by sharing a variety of information related to the built-world lifecycle. All through a single platform. The industry's most advanced 3D digital twin platform is based on data captured from any source, anywhere, any time. Import any form of point cloud data into our unified 3D digital twin platform, including terrestrial and hand-held LiDAR scanners, drone photogrammetry, robots, and custom-built reality capture systems. Keep your team productive. Cupix 3D Digital Twins enable you to virtually inspect, annotate, and take measurements for any project, from the safety of your home. Catch and resolve costly mistakes before they happen. -
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Asite
Asite
Asite is an open construction platform that enables organizations working on capital projects to come together, plan, design, and build with seamless information sharing across the entire supply chain. Asite’s range of solutions connect dispersed teams across the lifecycle of capital assets, enabling them to build better and build resilience. With Asite, capital project owners stay at the forefront of innovation, maintaining a golden thread of information throughout a project to facilitate the creation of digital twins.Starting Price: $375.00/month/user -
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RIB Candy
RIB Software
RIB Candy is the leading construction management software suite, designed for the estimation and control of built environment projects. Unique and powerful, Candy has been developed to the industry’s requirement - from take-off to pricing and planning a project, controlling at site level through to the final certificate. Features include project Estimating, Quantity Take-off (QTO), Planning, Forecasting, Cash Flow, Valuations, Subcontract Management and Cost & Allowable.Starting Price: $200 -
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3D Repo
3D Repo
Record 3D pins to identify issues and assign them to various parties on the project for streamlined project management with the Issue Tracker. Issues are highlighted with a colour, specific to the party that it has been assigned to. SafetiBase is the collaborative way to share and use Health and Safety information and project risks, associating them directly to the model. SafetiBase conforms to the newly published specification for ‘collaborative sharing and use of structured health and safety information using BIM’ (Publicly Available Specification PAS 1192-6). A simple way for users to validate data and group model elements together for easy progress tracking and more reliable data outputs for the client. With its ease of use, Smart Groups democratises the data validation process regardless of software knowledge. Detect changes in 3D models regardless of their file type or underlying data structure.Starting Price: $45.91 per user per month -
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LOD Planner
LOD Planner
What if all Owners had an intuitive, collaborative and visual method to identify the BIM they actually need? What if every Architect, Engineer and Consultant could easily agree on exactly what BIM scope they’re signing up for? What if all Contractors could manage their BIM requirements in a collaborative and integrated BIM scoping workflow? Our passion is SmartLeanBIM™ Continuous improvement runs through our veins and we believe that real magic happens at the intersection of BIM and Lean. Our mission is to enable the optimization of global design management for Owners, Architects, Engineers and Contractors. Our value is to support a culture of simple BIM planning, one where BIM Execution Plans, Scopes, Contracts, and Management are completed in minutes, not days. We feel that everybody should have shelter and a safe place that they can call home. A part of every license subscription will support our friends at Habitat for Humanity.Starting Price: $29 per month -
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Trimble Connect
Trimble MEP
Connect the right people to the right data at the right time. By giving everyone access to detailed project information, Trimble® Connect helps us all build better by making project information transparent, traceable and accessible. See 3D models with full-scale overlay in the real world with our HoloLens application. With mobile, desktop and web accessibility, stakeholders can access what they need, when they need it. Using our cloud-based collaboration platform, MEP contractors and engineers can coordinate, communicate and collaborate directly. Achieve predictable control by consolidating information across the design, build, and operate project phases. Trimble Connect is the glue between software and hardware products across the entire MEP workflow, connecting the different stages of a project and the countless contractors working on it.Starting Price: $10 per user per month -
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Giraffe
Giraffe
Accelerate your ability to scale by conducting site analysis in real time with your design. Allowing you to focus on what's important: making a lasting impact on your communities. Quickly get a 360-degree view of your idea. Follow your instincts, draw an idea and let Giraffe do the heavy lifting: overlaying data, querying and automatically calculating your proof of concept. Utilize data discovery to see your site's most up-to-date local mapping data. Giraffe combines maps from any source and treats them like layers. Allowing you to analyze, sort and group them for ease of use. Engage your stakeholders with an immersive view of the potential you see for a site. Provide viewer level access to the plan for increased community engagement that includes context and images. With Giraffe, you create something you're confident in and share it when you're ready. Interrogate plans rapidly from a shared space.Starting Price: $250 per user per month -
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BIMcollab
BIMcollab
Issues can be hard to keep track of. Using spreadsheets will leave you with an unmanageable number of files and versions. How do you know what is communicated with whom and with which file? Costly mistakes are lurking around the corner. BIMcollab centralizes all the issues of your project and offers a clear up-to-date overview, intuitive functionality and insightful reporting features. Set deadlines to issues, assign them to team members and receive notifications whenever a change has been made. Updated issues are directly available within your team's BIM software, so there are no issues slipping through the cracks. BIMcollab is an easy-to-use and powerful issue management platform in the cloud. Issues are directly linked to positions and objects in your model and accessible via web browsers or directly from your BIM software. Imagine clicking an issue in your own BIM tool and being zoomed to its position in your model.Starting Price: €60 per month -
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Solibri Office
Solibri
Solibri is founded on the concept of Open BIM. Solibri Office can import building models from all major BIM software products by using the standardized IFC interface. Solibri finds the problems and helps to solve them so they don't become issues later on. We don't only point out the problems that could appear at the construction phase. We also point out the other areas that can become a problem once the building is at use. Solibri’s quality checking is based on both pre-defined and customizable rules, out of which you select which ones to use. We offer the best pre-defined rules on the market for checking not only model quality, but much more – imagine the ability to consider everything regarding, for example, the comfort of use in your newly constructed building, including details like thoroughly planned accessibility or perfectly sized and angled parking spaces.Starting Price: €280 per user per month -
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RIB Connex
RIB Software
Manage and combine your data in a safe environment. Configure your critical construction workflows in one place. Get real-time project insights and make data-driven decisions. Make BIM available to the project team and enhance constructability. Integrate to 3rd party applications and secure the future of your data. Connex is your construction management software for your construction projects. Connex breaks down software application silos and communication silos from precon to closeout, so you can build with less risk and better profits. Streamline your workflows, control your project and standardize your field execution. Connex empowers you to seamlessly collaborate, and deliver projects on time, and on a budget! Collaborate successfully from the office to the field in one unified platform. Get full transparency into your project portfolio, improve decision making and facilitate seamless collaboration between project stakeholders.Starting Price: Free -
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Snaptrude
Snaptrude
The collaborative building design for architects. Snaptrude helps design better buildings faster, by bringing project teams together. Snaptrude is used by designers from some of the world’s leading companies. Planned, designed, and visualize with the entire project team from concept to construction. Share models and document communication in real time. Whether you're designing a house or a city, get it done faster with intelligent automation and parametric modeling. Being fast doesn't have to mean sacrificing creativity or quality. Leverage BIM data to control costs & design sustainably. Gather real-time insights from automated BoQs, site topography, daylight simulation, and more. Import from AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino, or Revit & Export directly into Revit, with complete parametric family information, without any data loss. Create flawless architecture that satisfies the client's brief. Brainstorm ideas with your team & rapidly turn them into detailed BIM models.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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Dynamo BIM
Dynamo BIM
An introductory resource for beginners and a long-term reference. See this structured explanation of everything from data management to computational geometry and working with Revit. A community-powered, comprehensive reference to the functionality and utility of every node in Dynamo. Use the Dynamo Dictionary as a quick reference or an in-depth guide to extend your skills and empower your graphs. Dynamo hosts a thriving ecosystem for development. This page takes you down the rabbit hole of all of the tools available for customizing your Dynamo experience. From top-to-bottom, we’ll start with the ‘out-of-the-box’ options and go deeper as we progress down the page. The Introductory tutorial videos reflect the visually refreshed Dynamo from version 2.13 onwards, including new graph authoring features. The advanced tutorial videos are legacy content that has been created for the Dynamo 1.X environment.Starting Price: Free -
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Hypar
Hypar
Hypar fits into your existing workflows, we integrate directly with Revit, Excel, Dynamo, and Grasshopper, and support common formats like IFC, JSON, gITF, and Rhino. HyparSpace is a new workflow for space planning, built with Hypar. Create test fits by drawing your floor plate, tracing over an image, or importing from DXF, Revit, or Rhino. Create space layouts including open office areas, meeting rooms, employee lounges, and much more, right out of the box. With Hypar, anyone can generate, visualize and analyze buildings to make better decisions faster. You can easily add your own processes and expertise so you don’t start from square one with each new project. Quickly generate proposals by combining different building systems that intelligently interact. Include analysis and simulation tools created by industry experts to predict and drive performance. Take designs from concept to construction, system by system.Starting Price: $75 per month -
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smino
smino
Better cooperation and more sustainable planning with automatic BIM model tests. BIM model checks ensure that your construction project is accurate and error-free by detecting and correcting errors in the model at an early stage. This saves you expensive and time-consuming corrections during the construction phase. Comparing models makes it possible to quickly identify and correct deviations. This means lower costs for you and on-time completion of the project. BIM model checks also allow you to improve collaboration and coordination within the team. Potential problems become visible as early as the planning phase, which increases efficiency and communication within the project team. With an optimized BIM workflow, the entire project execution becomes smoother. Ultimately, BIM helps to complete projects faster, more cost-efficiently, and with higher quality. For you, this means more transparency and security throughout the entire construction process.Starting Price: Free -
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BIMvision
BIMvision
Monitoring the progress of construction works and aggregating current data from the construction site. BIMvision is a freeware IFC model viewer. It allows to view the virtual models coming from CAD systems like Revit, Archicad, BricsCAD BIM, Advance, DDS-CAD, Tekla, Nemetschek VectorWorks, Bentley, Allplan, Strakon, and others without the necessity of having commercial licenses of these systems or having each of particular vendor’s viewer. BIMvision visualizes the BIM models created in IFC format 2x3 and 4.0. It has many built-in features and is the first viewer with a plugin interface. Together with the association, our company is working on the implementation of buildingSMART and openBIM standards in Poland and around the world. BIMvision is a freeware IFC model viewer. BIMvision visualizes the BIM models created in IFC format 2×3 and 4.0. It has many built-in features and is the first viewer with a plugin interface.Starting Price: Free -
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Open IFC Viewer
Open Design Alliance
Open IFC Viewer is a robust, open-source tool for viewing and navigating IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) files, commonly used in building information modeling. This software provides multiple visualization options, including a tree view that enables users to navigate the hierarchical structure of IFC models, revealing each node’s attributes. With advanced search functions, users can find specific instances by their type or global identifier and track references across model elements. Open IFC Viewer includes a validation plugin for verifying model accuracy based on schema standards, such as attribute consistency and structural integrity. Users can highlight, isolate, or hide objects within the scene and customize lighting parameters to enhance model visualization. The software’s interactive instance viewer allows users to delve into entity definitions and attribute values as specified in IFC files.Starting Price: Free -
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Infurnia
Infurnia Technologies
Infurnia is a cloud-native architecture software that enables you to seamlessly implement BIM in your designs, collaborate easily across functions, and manage your data efficiently. Infurnia is the only architecture software that provides CAD, BIM, Data Management, Collaboration Tools, and Platform-independent Accessibility. With Infurnia, the "Information" part of Building Information Modeling (BIM) is baked right into the modeling and designing part itself. You can create muti-layered walls, define spaces, attach properties to spaces and any elements, and so much more. Infurnia helps you streamline your workflow by integrating with all your existing systems. Infurnia can be integrated with your ERP, CRM, pricing engines, company login systems, and many more to help you get the best out of all your tools.Starting Price: $20 per user per month -
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Kreo Software
Kreo Software
AI-assisted construction software solutions that help you avoid costly mistakes and reduce uncertainty from design brief and feasibility studies to tender stage. Kreo 2D Takeoff is the next-generation cloud construction takeoff software for quantity surveyors and estimators who are not happy with the status quo. Kreo Modular is a modular construction software for real estate developers, contractors and manufacturers seeking to implement MMC and DfMA in the earliest stages of the project lifecycle. Competitive bidding pressure and a rapidly changing market environment require much faster decisions on project feasibilities, construction cost estimates and bid pricing. Clients, contractors, and consultants are struggling to meet this challenge due to outdated work practices and technology solutions. Real estate appraisals, procurement and bidding for new work are very costly. Large numbers of abandoned projects and lost bids result in substantial write-offs. -
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StreamBIM
Rendra
Stream 3D BIM models to any device via wifi or cellular without the hassle of downloading. Available for all disciplines for everyone on the project. Quick access to all project drawings, installation instructions, warranties, and inspection reports for all project users across platforms. BIM is the new platform for collaboration. Bookmark an object or a room and share questions and give advice using our chat feature. Include colleagues from the job site, the site office, or the design studio using @ mentions to gather information quickly and easily. A reporting and workflow module which enables you to coordinate reporting information for the project, which allows users to track and assign tasks to any user on the project from the job site no matter where they work. Capture photos, add due dates, and assign tasks to the appropriate team. Make templates to support project workflows; document your work onsite; create RFIs, report issues, and more. -
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LIRA-SAPR
LIRALAND Group
LIRA-SAPR is comprehensive software package that benefits from BIM technology. The software is intended for analysis and design of building and mechanical engineering structures of different purposes. - Static (forces and displacements) and dynamic analyses - Selection and check for sections of steel and/or reinforced concrete (RC) structures - Preliminary drawings of steel structures as well as separate RC elementsStarting Price: €280/month -
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Building in Cloud
Namirial
Building in Cloud is a free service for the management of the entire life cycle of buildings, planning; design; construction; management, and maintenance. All operators in the construction sector, designers; builders; owners, and maintainers, can take significant advantage of its use by having a collaboration platform from which it is possible to share and manage all the information necessary to improve process performance and business objectives. The transmission of the value of the information is available at any time and from anywhere. All operators in the construction sector can take advantage of using Building in Cloud. The availability of information relating to the various phases of the life cycle of a building necessary for the advancement of the order or for maintenance activities allows to optimization of the processes, control, and monitoring of activities allowing compliance with quality, execution times, and costs.Starting Price: Free -
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CAD&BIM Free Viewer
CAD&BIM Free Viewer
Cad&Bim Free Viewer is a freeware 2D/3D drawings and models viewer. With the unique ability to open multiple file types, it is the simplest and easiest solution for anyone who needs to view drawing files for free. Thanks to the clean and extremely intuitive interface it is the right tool for everybody, from experts to beginners. CAD&BIM Free Viewer allows visualizing models coming from CAD/BIM systems like AutoCAD, Revit, Archicad, BricsCAD BIM, DDS-CAD, Tekla, Nemetschek VectorWorks, Bentley, Allplan, ZwCAD, GstarCAD, SolidWorks and others with no need of commercial licenses. CAD&BIM Free Viewer solution allows uploads of projects from Revit, ArchiCAD, AllPlan, and more. CAD&BIM Free Viewer is the best tool for billions of 2D/3D DWG-DXF-DWF drawings circulating around the world. CAD&BIM Free Viewer is able to directly read models and designs.Starting Price: Free -
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Cleopatra Enterprise
Cleopatra Enterprise
The #1 Total Project & Turnaround Management Platform. Improve the performance of your next project with Cleopatra Enterprise. Dedicated for complex projects like CAPEX, OPEX, turnaround, and maintenance events. Cleopatra covers the entire project life cycle by including functionalities for different project controls disciplines in one advanced system. With centralized data at its heart, Cleopatra ensures continuous improvement of project performance, and successful digital transformation. Designed to support owners, EPC contractors and engineering firms worldwide, Cleopatra accommodates the specific needs and requirements of demanding projects in several industries. -
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usBIM
ACCA software
usBIM is the integrated system of applications and functions to manage the digitization of buildings and infrastructures in an easy, secure, shared and collaborative way. Deal with your construction project estimates and quantity surveying data, while collaborating with your team members from anywhere using any device with a simple browser, without having to install any apps. Collaborate in real-time with the design, execution and maintenance teams with a fully integrated online messaging and video meetings service. Store or share your construction projects, your work site management documents or your maintenance data regardless of the file formats, data types, your location or the kind of device you are using and all in a portable manner. Manage issues and data directly in the cloud with a traceable model based process that guarantees the quality of your results.
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