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Regulation pack

Building regulations: BR, DE, SE, PL, IN, ID

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Screenshot from the lab build. Settings, Global, Building regulations: Brazil, Germany and Sweden installed from the Library, with Germany opened to its MBO and DIN 18065 pack, marked numbers not chec
Screenshot from the lab build. Settings, Global, Building regulations: Brazil, Germany and Sweden installed from the Library, with Germany opened to its MBO and DIN 18065 pack, marked numbers not chec
The Regulations panel in BimCraft with the Brazil, Germany and Sweden packs ticked for the sample house
The Regulations panel in BimCraft with the Brazil, Germany and Sweden packs ticked for the sample house

Overview

Building regulations for six countries outside the United States: Brazil, Germany, Sweden, Poland, India and Indonesia. Each pack holds only the limits the research could tie to a clause (stairs, rooms, glazing and ventilation, where the regulation sets them), with its authority, source and date. Where a regulation sets no limit the checker knows, or a limit could not be confirmed, the pack leaves it out and its note says so. The packs are for the Building regulations add-on.

Who it’s for

  • Architects and designers working on stairs and rooms in these countries who want an early read on the limits in a pack.
  • Consultants checking a drawing against a national model code before local review.
  • Anyone who needs to see which limits a national regulation sets, and which it leaves to local law.

What you can do

  • Install a country in Settings, Global, Building regulations, then tick its pack in the Regulations panel of a drawing.
  • Read each pack's note for what it does not check. For example, the Brazil pack does not check stair width, stair headroom or glazing.
  • Read each finding in Problems with its pack, edition and clause.

Methods and standards

Each pack records its authority (adopted law, government, model code, professional or community), its in-force date, its source and source date, and the clause for each limit. Germany's pack uses the national model (Musterbauordnung) and the stair standard DIN 18065; Brazil's uses ABNT standards; India's uses the Model Building Bye-Laws 2016; Indonesia's and Poland's use their national regulations; Sweden's regulations are functional and set few numeric limits.

Data and sources

Brazil (ABNT NBR 9077, 9050 and 15575): 4 rules, from a 2001 copy of NBR 9077 and secondary sources; current editions not confirmed; review state unchecked. Germany (Musterbauordnung and DIN 18065:2020-08): 6 rules, from secondary sources because the standard is paywalled; review state unchecked. Sweden (Boverket BFS 2024:8 and 2024:9): 1 rule, stair headroom. India (Model Building Bye-Laws 2016): 7 rules; a model that states and cities adopt, with numbers that vary by city. Indonesia (PP 16/2021 and PP 12/2021): 5 rules for landed houses. Poland (the 2002 technical conditions regulation): 5 rules for single-family houses. The sources are cited in each pack.

Verification

The PHP test bin/test-library-regulations.php covers the packs' loading and import. Run on 2026-10-29: 76 passed, 1 failed (the check 'a second import changes nothing' failed). The country packs' review states are draft or unchecked; none has been reviewed by a person against the published text. Not yet checked against a reference case.

Limits

National rules only. Local bye-laws and municipal codes can set different limits (Indonesia's local regulations, India's state and city bye-laws, Brazil's municipal codes), and the packs say so. The Poland pack's source records the regulation as repealed from 2026-09-21 in the national register, with a transition period under which designs may still follow it; no replacement was found when the pack was checked. The Brazil and Germany packs are not confirmed against the current editions. A rule a pack does not check is not checked. Not a permit check.

Files and formats

Packs are JSON files in the cadcraft-regulation-pack format. Drawings keep their ticks as the Building regulations add-on describes for each app.

Get started

  1. Open Settings, Global, Building regulations and tick the country you work in.
  2. Open a drawing and tick its pack in the Regulations panel.
  3. Open Problems and read each finding and its clause. Read the pack's note first.

Languages

No languages are listed for this add-on yet. Its maker may add some.

Works in

EditionWorksNote
Browser (/use) (yours) Added on demand Fetched the first time you use it, then kept for offline use.
Studio from getcadcraft.com Added on demand Fetched the first time you use it, then kept for offline use.
Microsoft Store Added on demand Fetched the first time you use it, then kept for offline use.
Google Play Added on demand Fetched the first time you use it, then kept for offline use.
iPad and iPhone (App Store) Added on demand Fetched the first time you use it, then kept for offline use.
Custom build Added on demand Fetched the first time you use it, then kept for offline use.

Comes with

Adding it brings these too. Engines are shared: each downloads once for every add-on that uses it.

Needed by: Architecture, Energy and building performance modeling.

Versions

VersionChannelDateWhat changed
1.0.0stableOctober 28, 2026First version in the Library.

Licence and maker

CadCraft (CadCraft, first-party). Licence: Apache-2.0. Dependencies carry their own licences, listed on their pages.