The open source bimserver is free and open source. This standard version comes with a lot of cool features.
You can also have a a look at the screenshots.
A glance of the features and opportunities the bimserver can give you.
Base Features:
Import/export IFC - The base of the BIMserver is native IFC. You can upload and download IFC, ifcXML and ifcZIP.
IFC Versioning – Go back in time. See who made which changes and when. Versioning is on IFC objectlevel.
Change notifications – use the RSS feeds to get warning of changes you are interested in.
Geolocate models – place your model on a location to create a GIS link (have a look at the export formats).
Multi-user – get as much users as you like!
Smart Authentication – only change your own part of the model but be able to read/see the other parts.
Webbased viewer – Making use of WebGL to view the model inside the browser (beta).
Model Features:
Merging – Merge submodels into a base model.
Revision management – Get revisions by sub-projects and main project.
Change finder – Let the software find changes that were made to the model.
Filter & Query – Simple queries like “get only the windows from a model” , or “get one specific wall”.
Rules and advanced Query – Using Java code to make advanced queries or rules.
Checkout & update warnings – Get a big warning when model inconsistencies seem to appear.
Interfaces:
Webservice interface – feel free to connect to the SOAP interface.
Webuserinterface – the only thing you need is a webbrowser to connect to the webinterface.
REST - every IFC object in your BIMserver has its own URL. Use these REST links to connect or get detailled information about a specific object.
Export formats:
ifcXML - Valide ifcXML output.
CoBIE - Get CoBIE export.
CityGML - Export your IFC model tot CityGML, including the GeoBIM extension.
Collada - Get collada models (easy to import in Sketchup).
KML - view your BIM model in Google Earth.
Google Earth network link – get a URL to directly connect from Google Earth.
Extra:
IFD support – Fill the properties of an IFD library object.
WebGL viewer – very beta.
Clash detection – get a list of IFC objects that clash (geometry analysis).
Working on (coming as soon as possible):
Rendering pictures – Automatically rendering JPG/PNG pictures from every revision of the model.
gbXML export – needs additional funding.
Excel export – needs additional funding.
Single Signon (SSO) – needs additional funding.
Protocol Buffers - needs additional funding.
OpenID Authentication – needs additional funding.

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Hi. Is BIMservers database encrypted? What about user interface? I mean that there should be no possibities to open database without passwords…
Also there should be possibility for job administrator to allow or deny read-write-operations.
i have downloaded and istalled the file but i cannot open it to use. how do i open the program?
Hi Nana,
Have a look at http://breakfast2011.bimserver.org for some movies.
Greetings,
Léon
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