geoBIM Desktop
BIM × GIS × Real-Time 3D
Stream your Cesium ion assets or convert IFC and point clouds on your PC, and see them in place: photorealistic, with real terrain, sun, light and weather.
A Cesium ion account is recommended: terrain, aerial imagery, Google 3D Tiles and your cloud models stream through it, and the free Community plan is enough to try geoBIM. Without it you still get a world map globe, local tilesets and the demo scenes.
Create a free account
Your data, three ways in
Stream from Cesium ion
Your 3D Tiles, terrain, imagery and photogrammetry from your Cesium ion account, plus Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles. Sign in once, pick an asset, and it's in place.
Convert on your PC preview
IFC models and point clouds (LAS, LAZ, E57, PLY, XYZ) become 3D Tiles with the built-in geoBIM Tiler. No upload, nothing leaves your machine, IFC properties stay attached to every element.
Open local 3D Tiles
Point geoBIM at any folder with a tileset.json, from any tool, and it loads right away.
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, or add your own WMS/WMTS map services (official aerial imagery, cadastral maps, ...) as base layer or overlay.
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.
Open formats in, nothing locked in
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.
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
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.jsonis kept as a backup
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
- Your own WMS and WMTS map services, with presets for open government data
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. For terrain and imagery each user signs in with their own Cesium ion account.
Trial
Free · limited access program
- 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, with watermark
- 5 demo scenes to start with
- No time limit
Full version
On request
- No limits on views, scenes, models, lights and annotations
- Videos in 1080p, any length, without watermark
- Save placements into the tileset
- Your data from the trial is taken over
What your PC needs
- System
- Windows 10 / 1164-bit
- Graphics
- DirectX 12 GPUe.g. NVIDIA RTX 2060 or better
- Memory
- 16 GB RAMrecommended
- Disk
- About 1 GBfree space
- Network
- Internet connectionfor streaming terrain and models
- Account
- Cesium ion account (recommended)Terrain, imagery, Google 3D Tiles and cloud models; the free Community plan is enough to try it
What's new in 1.0-beta.3
- Code-signed (publisher: Lorenz Christof Josef)
- Sign-in dialog on first start: connect Cesium ion in a few clicks
- Works without Cesium ion: a globe with the TopPlusOpen world map instead of an empty view
- WMS/WMTS layers: your own map services or presets, as base layer or overlay with opacity
- Sharper UI on high-DPI screens
- Fixed a crash when flying to a freshly loaded model
geoBIM Desktop 1.0-beta.3
The beta is available to a limited number of testers. We review every request and send your personal download link by e-mail, usually within a few working days. In return we are grateful for your feedback.
geoBIM does not include map streaming. Terrain, imagery and Google 3D Tiles come from your personal Cesium ion account; geoBIM asks you to sign in on first start. Without an account you get a plain globe with a world map. The free Community plan is enough for testing; for commercial use check Cesium's plans and terms.
Create a free Cesium ion account →- Create your own free Cesium ion account at ion.cesium.com (recommended).
- 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. geoBIM Desktop is code-signed (publisher: Lorenz Christof Josef). Because the certificate is new, Windows SmartScreen may still show a warning for the first downloads - click “More info” and then “Run anyway”. - Sign in with Cesium ion when geoBIM asks (or click “Later”) and load one of the demo scenes, or choose a folder with your own 3D Tiles.