The best free IFC viewer in the world
Free, easy to use, powerful and super fast
Faster, smarter, easier
The free Viewer version of BIMcollab Zoom is the most powerful IFC viewer in the world. It enables you to find, visualize and communicate information flaws in federated models. It’s beloved by BIM professionals world-wide for a good reason: it’s faster, smarter and easier to use than any other free IFC viewer available.
Explore your model without delay
Enjoy fast loading, high frame rates and smooth navigation, no matter how big your model is.
Validate more efficiently with Smart Views
Check your BIM models with customizable smart views: easy filtering and coloring of objects you want to highlight.
Anyone can (re)view your model
No need for expensive tools. All your stakeholders can now view and evaluate your BIM models for free.
Free Model WebViewer for easy model sharing
Upload, share, and collaborate on BIM models with your team, from any browser, anywhere
Check your models more efficiently with Smart Views
With smart views you can dynamically filter and color-code components based on their properties and quickly gain insight in the quality of the information in your BIM model.
Unique and unparalleled is the auto color feature. With this option, you can color-code components automatically based on selected properties, without having to specify them one-by-one.
Collaborate via BIMcollab
Team members without access to expensive BIM tools can download BIMcollab Zoom Viewer for free and connect to the BIMcollab Nexus project. Issues can be easily looked up in the model, commented on, assigned to a responsible team member, or marked as approved.
New issues are created in a heartbeat, with relevant viewpoints and new comments. Once done, synchronize your work with your team on BIMcollab Nexus with the press of a button.
What are you waiting for? It’s free.
BIMcollab Zoom |
IFC Viewer |
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Model Viewing |
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| Fast loading of IFC files, IFC4 support, Pointclouds E57 | ✔ | ✔ | ||
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| Measuring, property stamps, annotations | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Open external documents linked in IFC files | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Import/export model federation | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Share model federation via BIMcollab Nexus |
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Model Checking |
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| Local Smart Views, create and run |
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| Autocoloring for fast and easy classification |
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| Share Smart Views via BIMcollab Nexus | read only | ✔ | ||
| Structure BIM data with Smart Properties |
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| Rule based clash detection, and flexible grouping of clash results |
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| IDS based property validation | – | ✔ | ||
| Batch generate and update of (Smart) Issues |
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Clash management |
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| Clash rule creation and sharing via BIMcollab Nexus |
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| Automated clash management with Smart Issues |
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| Automatically recheck status of Smart Issues |
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Information takeoff |
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| Lists creation and sharing via BIMcollab Nexus |
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| Extracted data sharing via BIMcollab Nexus |
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| Extracted data sharing to Power BI |
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| Export information to Excel and CSV | – | ✔ | ||
Issue management |
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| Integration with BIMcollab Nexus issue management | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Open, edit and export issues offline (BCF files) | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Annotate viewpoints, dimensions and property stamp |
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Support |
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| Support via email and live chat | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Access to BIMcollab Help Center | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Free trainings on BIMcollab Academy | ✔ | ✔ | ||
“What a difference the new BIMcollab Zoom makes! Even on my Surface it remains workable and fast.”
Koen van Tartwijk
Project Manager, Byldis
Free features at a glance
Check pointclouds against IFC models
Load point clouds and combine them with IFC files to check for deviations between ‘as built’ versus ‘as designed’. You can open point cloud data from common used formats like .e57 and .txt.
Connect to 3rd party apps
Use Dropbox, Autodesk Construction Cloud, or any other DMS, to host your IFC files and sync these models straight into BIMcollab Zoom Viewer.
Integrated issue management
Fully integrated with issue management of BIMcollab in an unprecedented way. Communicate with modeling partners to create high quality BIM models.
Section planes/boxes
Great navigation, intuitive sectioning and filtering offers fast and easy insight in any BIM model.
Single click annotations
Add texts, arrows, dimensions, revision mark-ups or property-stamps to issue-viewpoints for easy communication with your team.
Use predefined Lists and Smart Views
When connecting to BIMcollab Nexus you receive Lists and Smart Views available in your project. Smart Views to run predefined checks, and Lists to view extracted data in the context of your BIM model.
