Linking to a Building Information Model (BIM)

For those customers using the BIM viewer (BIM viewing is an optional extra for InEight Document), it is possible to link Mail, Documents or other InEight Document elements to parts of the BIM Model.

When opening an IFC file within the BIM Viewer, right click on a part of the model and choose between creating a New Item (Mail, Document, etc.) or selecting an existing item to link to the part.

  • Items already linked to a part can be viewed in the sliding pane at the bottom of the BIM Viewer window.

  • To link multiple elements of a model to selected InEight Document items in a single process, hold down the Ctrl button Ctrl key on the keyboard and then left click on the model elements or the element nodes in the model tree.

  • When opening a mail or document within the normal InEight Document registers, if the item has a link to a part in BIM model, the relevant part can be viewed directly in the model by clicking the link entry for that model part.

  • When a document linked to a BIM model in InEight Document is revised, the user is prompted whether to carry forward links within the BIM model from the previous Status. Links may be broken in this process depending on the changes to the model.