Tutorials BimCraft help Troubleshooting and limits
What is not built yet
What this BimCraft build does not do yet, and what to use instead today.
Written for BimCraft 0.3. The same help is inside the app: press F1.
BimCraft today is a reader, checker and IFC data editor. This is the honest list of what it does not do yet, with what to do instead.
Modeling and authoring
| Not yet | Instead, today |
|---|---|
| Drawing or placing walls, doors, floors or any element | Use your authoring program, then open its IFC export here |
| Moving, copying or deleting building elements, or changing geometry | Your authoring program. Placed library items can be copied and pasted here: see Copy, paste and duplicate library items |
| Deleting a placed library item, cut, select all | Undo takes back a placement you just made |
| Adding new properties or property sets | Fill in existing values here, or add the parameter in your authoring program and export again |
| Editing quantities, lists, enumerations | Your authoring program |
| Saving project or family files | BimCraft saves IFC only |
| Families: editing or creating | Your authoring program |
Viewing models
| Not yet | Instead, today |
|---|---|
| 3D from project files | Export IFC and open it. See Get a project file into 3D through IFC |
| Floor plans, elevations, section boxes, several section planes at once, filled cut faces | One Section plane at a time; see Cut an IFC model with a section plane. Untick storeys in Storeys |
| Hiding, isolating or coloring single elements | Turn storeys and Spaces on and off |
| Selecting several elements, search, filters | Pick one element at a time; use type properties to change many |
| Measuring distances or areas | Read the quantity sets in Properties |
| Saved views, walk mode, shadows | Not available |
| Several models at once (federation) and clash detection | Open one model at a time |
| Issues and BCF topics | Not available in BimCraft |
.ifczip and .ifcxml | Unzip or export plain .ifc |
| Opening the Elements list to select by kind | The list counts only |
Drawings
| Not yet | Instead, today |
|---|---|
| Editing, measuring or saving DWG and DXF | The CadCraft drafting app (Edit in CadCraft on the 2D view) |
| Printing or exporting PDF | Print from the program that made the drawing; check it first with Print view |
| Plot styles and pen tables | Print view shows plain black with line weights |
| Pinch zoom on touch screens in the 2D view | Tap Fit, or use a mouse or trackpad. The 3D view does pinch |
| DWG files older than R13, and binary DXF | Save the drawing again as a newer DWG, or as ASCII DXF |
| Drawings linked inside linked drawings | Open them directly |
| TIFF pictures | Save a PNG or JPEG copy with the same name and add it |
| DGN drawings | Listed in folder reports only |
| Objects listed under Not drawn yet | View the drawing in the program that made it |
| ACIS solids, bodies, regions and surfaces, and subdivision meshes in 3D | Export IFC or 3D faces from the program that made the drawing |
| Text, pictures and sheets in the 3D view of a drawing | Read them on the Model tab and the sheets |
| Picking objects in a drawing's 3D view | Turn layers off to find what is what |
| A section plane on a drawing in 3D | Turn layers off, or use the Top and Front views |
Equipment schedules from drawings without KCL-ITEM tags | Not available |
| Equipment schedule as XLSX or PDF | Download CSV and open it in a spreadsheet |
Files and platforms
| Not yet | Instead, today |
|---|---|
| Cloud saving | Save copies on your computer or office server. Cloud saving is not available yet |
| Desktop builds | Use BimCraft in a browser. Desktop builds are not available yet |
| Remembering folders in Firefox and Safari | Choose the folder again, or drag it in |
| Undo after saving | Open the original file again to start over |
| Filling in the missing part of a cut-off project file | Copy the original again; in a folder, BimCraft reads the newest complete backup |
| More than one panels window, or dragging a panel between windows | Use the panel's ⋯ menu |
| Remembering what you had open | Nothing is kept after you close the tab, except recent folders in Chrome and Edge |