OpenBIM IFC · OGC 3D Tiles · Unreal Engine 5

BIM × GIS × Real-Time 3D

Bring your IFC models and OGC 3D Tiles into place: photorealistic, with real terrain, sun, light and dynamic weather.

Try it free v0.1.0 · Windows · portable ZIP · no installation

Requires a Cesium ion account for terrain, imagery and Google 3D Tiles; the free Community plan is enough to try it. Sign up

Walk mode: on the Deichbrücke Wilhelmshaven at sunset — **Walk mode** · on the Deichbrücke Wilhelmshaven at sunset53.5151° N · 8.1149° EImagery: Microsoft Bing · Buildings: Cesium OSM Buildings, © OpenStreetMap contributors

Deichbrücke Wilhelmshaven: IFC 4.3 swing bridge, riveted truss — **Walk mode** · on the Deichbrücke Wilhelmshaven at sunset53.5151° N · 8.1149° EImagery: Microsoft Bing · Buildings: Cesium OSM Buildings, © OpenStreetMap contributors

The toolbar

Everything a design review needs

Element info `I`

Click an element to see its class, name, GlobalId, storey and all property sets.

Hide elements `H`

Take single walls, slabs or façade panels out of the view to look inside.

Measure

Distance, area, height above terrain, vertical difference and coordinates.

Annotations

Pins, circles, lines and areas with category and priority, clickable in the scene.

Clipping

Cut holes into the terrain for foundations, tunnels and excavation pits.

Google 3D Tiles

Photorealistic buildings, trees and bridges worldwide as the built environment, streamed via Cesium ion. One click switches between terrain and Google 3D Tiles.

Terrain & imagery

Switch to your own DGM from Cesium ion; choose Bing, Google or Sentinel imagery.

Scenes

Save models, view, hidden elements, measurements, lights, weather and time together.

Walk mode `G`

Walk through the model at eye level with mouse, keyboard or gamepad.

Camera flights

Orbit, flyover, reveal or a tour of your saved views, generated around the model, optionally as a time-lapse of the sun.

Video export

Record a flight as an MP4 in Full HD with the geoBIM logo, with or without the panels.

Materials

Realistic steel, concrete, masonry, asphalt and timber surfaces for models that carry a material property per element.

Import preview

IFC and point clouds become 3D Tiles on your own PC, no upload, then load right away.

Data

Open formats in, nothing locked in

Built on

3D Tiles 1.1EXT_structural_metadataquantized-mesh terrainIFCLAS / LAZ / E57 / PLY / XYZGaussian splatsGoogle Photorealistic 3D Tiles via Cesium ionOpenStreetMapMP4 video

What it does

Geospatial context for your BIM projects

Planning, construction and infrastructure teams use geoBIM to see models in context: on the actual terrain, in the actual built environment, at the actual time of day.

Auto-light: a light for every IFC light fixture, at night — **Auto-light** · a light for every IFC light fixture, at nightImagery: Microsoft Bing · Buildings: Cesium OSM Buildings, © OpenStreetMap contributors

Day, night, weather and light

The sun follows the real date, time and location. Weather brings volumetric clouds, rain, snow and fog. At night, place your own lights or let geoBIM light the scene for you.

Point, spot and area lights in lumens and Kelvin
Auto-light from OpenStreetMap street lamps and roads
Lights for every IFC light fixture and room

Station platform Musterstadt Hbf placed in its surroundings — **Musterstadt Hbf** · station platform from IFC, placed in its surroundingsImagery: Microsoft Bing

Put every model exactly where it belongs

Move, turn and scale any tileset with a gizmo, typed coordinates or pick & drop. For local tilesets the new position can be written into tileset.json, so every other 3D Tiles viewer shows it in the same place.

East / north / up arrows and a turning ring, 0.1 m and 5° steps with Shift
Georeferenced: positions survive origin shifts and are saved in scenes
The original tileset.json is kept as a backup

Hollow box girder viaduct in the landscape — **Viaduct** · hollow box girder in the landscapeImagery: Microsoft Bing

Your data, your terrain

Stream from Cesium ion or point geoBIM at a folder of 3D Tiles on your disk. Use your own high-resolution DGM as terrain; it fits seamlessly into the global terrain.

Local tilesets need no upload
Import IFC and point clouds (LAS, LAZ, E57, PLY, XYZ): converted on your PC into 3D Tiles, placed by their georeferencing or where you look (preview)
IFC classes, GlobalIds and property sets stay attached to every element
Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles via Cesium ion as the surrounding city
Bing, Google and Sentinel imagery on any terrain

Trial & full version

Try everything, keep it if it works for you

The trial has every tool and no time limit. It only limits how much you can keep and export. Each user signs in with their own Cesium ion account.

Trial

Free

All tools: sun, weather, lights, materials, measure, clipping, flights
3 saved views, 2 scenes, 3 models at the same time
5 placed lights, auto-light up to 20, 5 annotations
Videos up to 20 s in 720p
No time limit

Full version

On request

No limits on views, scenes, models, lights and annotations
Videos in 1080p, any length
Save placements into the tileset
Your data from the trial is taken over

Requirements

What your PC needs

Account: Your own Cesium ion account (free Community plan is enough to try it) for terrain, imagery, Google 3D Tiles and cloud models
System: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
Graphics: DirectX 12 GPU, e.g. NVIDIA RTX 2060 or better
Memory: 16 GB RAM recommended
Disk: About 1 GB free space
Network: Internet connection for streaming terrain and models

Download

geoBIM Desktop 0.1.0 trial

Create a free Cesium ion account at ion.cesium.com, if you don't have one.
Download the ZIP and unpack it anywhere. On the first start, Windows may install the Microsoft runtime libraries once.
Start GeoBIMTrial.exe; a short tour explains the tools.
Sign in to Cesium ion, or choose a folder with your own 3D Tiles.