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Getting started

Install, activate, and what each add-in does. For the full workflow with screenshots and videos, see the user guide.

First run

  1. Install with Revit and Navisworks closed.
  2. Run any GBIM command. The Licence window opens: choose Start 30-day trial, or paste your key and choose Activate.
  3. Every GBIM add-in on this computer now shares that licence.

Licence

  • Open it: Revit ▸ GBIM tab ▸ GBIM ▸ Licence (the last panel); Navisworks ▸ GBIM tab ▸ GBIM ▸ Licence.
  • Your key and downloads: in your customer account, and in the email you got at checkout.
  • Move to another computer: Release this computer, then activate the same key on the new one.
  • Offline: works 14 days after the last check. If it asks for a check, connect and choose Check now.
  • Where it is stored: %APPDATA%\GBIM\licence. Copying it to another computer does not move the licence.
Nothing in GBIM saves your model or overwrites your files. Reports and rule workbooks get a new name or a new version.

GBIM QA

Where: Revit: GBIM tab.

Check a Revit model against its BIM standard in minutes, fix names safely, and clean up without breaking anything.

  • Health Check: 23 checks (warnings, in-place families, imports, unpinned links, file size…) with a score and the change since the last run.
  • Warnings, Views and Sheets, Links and Coordinates in the same window, with Select and Isolate.
  • Excel export: scorecard, every element, and history by run.
  • Naming: your rules from an Excel workbook (file, worksets, types, families, tags, materials), with a rename preview that only applies safe fixes.
  • Parameters: required parameters by LOD, with empty, invalid and missing values listed.
  • Colour by Parameter: a temporary coloured copy of the view, with a legend you can select from.
  • Safe Cleanup: unused filters, templates, patterns, styles and materials; a dry run proves nothing placed is deleted.
  • A Rules editor inside Revit and a blank template for Excel, with drop-downs and a live “test a name” box.
  • Ships with a generic Sample project rule set to start from.

Clash Report

Where: Navisworks: GBIM tab.

Turn every Navisworks clash test into a ready-to-send Clash Response Sheet, one file per test and one folder per party.

  • One .xlsx per clash test, grouped in a folder per responsible party (your labels, matched from test and model names).
  • Title, KPIs, status drop-downs, comment columns, filter and frozen header, ready for the subcontractor.
  • Distance column: how deep each clash is, in millimetres, so you can sort the worst first.
  • Clash groups as one row; choose which statuses to list.
  • A picture per clash with only the two clashing elements shown, taken from the clash viewpoint.
  • Runs on thousands of tests: the list, filter and ticks stay fast.

Clash Manager

Where: Navisworks: GBIM tab.

See where an element clashes in all tests, approve it in one step, read statuses back from returned sheets, and find the busiest zones on a map.

  • Pick elements; get every clash in every test, with the other element, its ID and model.
  • Set the ticked clashes to any status; Approved also stamps Approved By and time.
  • Read returned Clash Response Sheets or a simple status table, several files at once.
  • Clashes are matched by test, clash name and element IDs; only real changes are ticked; problems are listed, not guessed.
  • Every clash placed in a zone (level and grid bay); each zone is one bulb, red, yellow or green by its clash count, with no thresholds to set.
  • Click a zone to list its clashes: the model and the other zones dim, and its clashes show as small bulbs; click one to go to it, then save the chosen clashes as viewpoints.
  • The map is saved, so you can open it again later and carry on where you left off.

Clash Sync

Where: Navisworks: GBIM tab, and Revit: GBIM tab.

A live link from Navisworks to Revit: the clash you click is shown in Revit at once, boxed and coloured.

  • Switch it on in Navisworks; open the Clash Sync window in Revit.
  • Elements are found by Revit ID in the host model and its links; the section box and colours follow each click.
  • Each update is one Undo step.

Clash Import

Where: Navisworks: GBIM tab, and Revit: GBIM tab.

Export clash tests from Navisworks and work through them in a docked Revit browser.

  • Filter by test, status or text; select and zoom; create views; write the clash text to a parameter you choose.
  • Map Navisworks source models to the host model and its links once; it is remembered.
  • On the Revit GBIM tab: click points on elements in any view and a red GBIM Flag is placed at each.
  • The flags travel with the model, so the same spot is easy to find again in Navisworks.

GUID Audit

Where: Revit: GBIM tab.

Find shared parameters with the wrong GUID, name or data type before they break schedules, tags and exports.

  • Every parameter definition in the model and its families against your shared parameter file.
  • Optional requirements list (any Excel layout with a parameter-name column) for data type, binding, categories and mandatory parameters.
  • Approved additions file for project parameters that are allowed outside the SP file.
  • A timestamped Excel register ranked Critical, High, Medium, Low, with the element and family behind each finding.

GBIM Tools

Where: Revit: GBIM tab.

Two small tools you will use every day.

  • Click elements in linked models; IDs are copied, with a history you can copy again.
  • Draw a rectangle on a plan; get a 3D view with a section box from that level to the level above.

GBIM Export

Where: Revit: GBIM tab.

Pick sheets, 3D views and schedules once and export them all, named the way your project needs, without overwriting anything. Edit schedules in Excel and bring the values back into Revit.

  • PDF as one file per sheet or one combined file, in colour, grey or black, with crop boundaries, scope boxes, reference planes and unreferenced tags hidden.
  • DWG with your DWG export setup, with views merged or as external references.
  • IFC (IFC2x3, IFC4 Reference View or IFC4 Design Transfer View), visible elements only.
  • NWC with shared coordinates and element properties, links, rooms and levels as you choose.
  • One workbook with a worksheet per schedule: instance values white, type values yellow, read-only values red, frozen header and filters.
  • Edit in Excel, then Import from Excel: a preview lists every changed cell; ticked values are written in one Undo step, and values also changed in Revit since the export are skipped.
  • File names from a pattern of sheet, view and model fields; an existing file is never replaced.
  • A log of every file, and your choices are remembered for next time.

Support

Write to support@gbimaddin.com with the add-in name, the Revit or Navisworks version, and the log file if there is one (%APPDATA%\GBIM).