This video provides an overview of Solibri Anywhere, a free software tool used for building information modelling (BIM) and construction evaluation, showcasing its various features such as navigation, selection, visibility management, and configuration options to enhance the user experience.

The video explains how to select objects, inspect their information and using techniques like "show all" to return to default views, as well as customizing 3D settings for optimal model representation.

In this video we learn how Solibri Anywhere allows users to inspect and analyze IFC models, including architectural designs, in various views and tabs, such as the 3D view, model tree, and info view, and highlights some of its limitations compared to the full version of Solibri Office.

This video explains how to use the selection basket tool in Solibri, allowing users to select individual items or groups of items to manipulate their visibility and inspect the hierarchy and other properties.

This video explains how to work with presentations in Solibri allowing users to create, manage, and share structured information and issues related to their projects, to improve communication via structured reports, with embedded views, summaries and comments.

This video explains how to use the section tool in Solibri, including creating section planes, moving them around, and customizing their display, providing a powerful way to inspect and navigate through designs.

This video explains how Solibri provides annotation tools that can be added on top of the 3D view and projected into the model, allowing users to create scribbly lines, add text, and use other shapes to highlight specific items, which can then be preserved across different views in presentations.

This video demonstrates how to use Solibri's dimension tool to measure distances and heights within a 3D model, showcasing features such as snapping, setting dimensions on specific points or surfaces, and managing and undoing created dimensions.

This video explains how to work with Solibri models, specifically discussing what happens when you save a file or model, and highlighting the limitations and capabilities of Solibri Anywhere compared to other versions like Solibri Site and Office, including opening multiple models at once and accessing additional information.

This video shows how to create a coordination model by merging multiple IFC models in Solibri Site or Office, including an architectural and ventilation model, using Solibri's federated model management features, allowing users to visualize and manage complex building information from different design sources in one place.

This video explains how to use Solibri's Roles feature, which allows users to manage groups of rule sets, classifications, and information takeoff definitions, and demonstrates its benefits and features, including automatic loading of predefined roles based on user preferences.

This video discusses classifications in Solibri, highlighting various types of classifications such as those extracted from IFC files and Solibri-based classifications, each serving different purposes and objectives in the design and construction process.

This video discusses classification rules in Solibri, highlighting how these rules can be used to automatically assign values and categorize objects based on various criteria such as naming conventions, properties, and relationships within a project.

We demonstrate examples of simple and complex classification rules, emphasizing the importance of customizing and adapting classification rules for specific projects or languages.

This video discusses the "Information Takeoff Definition" tool in Solibri, a feature used to create detailed tables or schedules summarizing project data, including object counts, quantities, properties, and attributes, which can be exported to Excel for further analysis or incorporation into dashboards.

In this video we create a custom "information takeoff" or ITO schedule to list all doors in our project. We start from scratch and show you a few ways to organise the schedule and set up the different schedule fields (or columns).

This video shows how to create a presentation from an "information takeoff" definition in Solibri, using pre-set options such as automatically zooming in and linking components to issues, allowing for a step-by-step creation of a complete presentation slide without manual intervention.

This video shows how to create a presentation based on classification values using a workaround, as the built-in option to do so is not supported out of the box, and instead uses a separate information takeoff to generate a presentation by filtering and customizing data.

This video discusses the "BCF Live Connector" in Solibri. It showcases the connector's features, such as filtering and assigning tasks, and demonstrates how it can streamline workflows for teams working on large projects, making it easier to track and resolve issues and collaborate with others in real-time.

This section, on rule checking, will be gradually expanded over the next few weeks. With the first few videos, you get through the basics, so you can already start applying your Solibri knowledge. After that, individual rules will be explained with more detail. If you have a request for some specific rule, get in touch and I'll see that something can be added soon.

This video provides an overview of the Solibri model checking workflow that uses rules to identify potential issues in a building design, allowing users to select and document these issues as part of their validation process, ultimately providing a clear path for resolving conflicts and ensuring coordination between different components.

This video explains how to communicate the results of rule checking in Solibri, showing a workflow where users can select which issues to include in a presentation, update an existing presentation, and generate new ones, using various output formats such as PDF, Excel, or BCF.

This video provides a step-by-step guide on creating and managing custom rulesets within Solibri, allowing users to create their own rules and rulesets to automate specific quality control processes in IFC models.

The video explains how to compare two different versions of a building model using Solibri, to notice what was added, removed, and modified.

The video shows how to configure the comparison settings, such as whether to check globally unique identifiers, consider geometry and include specific properties like geometry, location, or occupant data.

Overall, Solibri provides a powerful tool for comparing and analyzing changes made to a building model over time, allowing architects and engineers to track and understand the evolution of their designs.

This discusses three different clearance check configurations:

1. "Clearance in front of windows" (rule SOL/226): This configuration checks for clearances between window openings and surrounding elements, such as slabs, floors, or walls.

2. "Clearance in front of doors" (also rule SOL/226): Similar to the previous one, but focuses on door openings and their clearances with surrounding elements.

3. "Clearance above suspended ceilings" (rule SOL/222): This configuration checks for vertical distances between suspended ceilings (or slabs/roofs) and elements below them.

We discuss each configuration's parameters, including:

• How to filter results based on severity

• Visualisation of the clearance check results

• Business logic behind each rule

This is a tutorial on using Autorun to automate tasks in Solibri. We create a launch script that opens an "autorun.xml" file, which is used for Autorun. The script is then modified to include additional steps, such as checking for errors in the model, running all open rule sets, exporting information takeoffs, and generating reports.

The tutorial then explains how to run the launch script and interact with Autorun, including commenting on check results, creating presentations, and exporting summary reports.

It also shows how to verify that the reports have been generated correctly by opening the BCF file and importing it into Solibri.

We learn how to apply an existing Autorun workflow to a new project by modifying it slightly. We also attempt to run the ITO report again and adjust their approach to use the correct subfolder and output file for the CD-remake model.

Alas, an error occurred due to the way Solibri's Information Takeoff Report was being generated. By adjusting our setup and launching the script again, we can resolve the issue and generate all required reports, including the coordination report, results summary report, and information takeoffs, properly in Excel format.

Warning about the availability of Solibri Optimizer

Solibri Optimizer is a separate free software to optimize IFC files.

The program is based on the principle of redundancy: there is a lot of repetition in a model. Many elements have the same geometry, the same types, the same relationships and the same properties. As far as possible, the optimizer will check, compare and remove this redundancy.

Optimizer does this automatically and the user has no further control or options to set. It therefore works very easy.

You open the optimizer and get a simple interface.

You can drag an IFC file to the topmost entry field. The only option is whether you want to compress the file with the ZIP algorithm afterwards.

Solibri Optimizer is a fairly easy-to-use software. You choose a file and the software does the rest. Nevertheless, it is good to reflect on the results.

The Optimizer guarantees that all elements, types, materials and so on are still identifiable with the same guid and contain the same information.

The result is in other words a file that can be stored much more compactly, with the same content. And that is exactly why we would use it.

Solibri Model Checker is a very powerful but also extensive system. It proves that IFC is capable of performing and that it allows for a thorough monitoring and evaluation of the model for every software that supports IFC.

It may be interesting to compare the different Solibri tools with other software.

Model Viewers

There are currently some Model viewers on the market, with quiet some free applications. It would lead us too far to discuss all of them, so we only mention a few examples.

Model Checkers

There is not much competition for Solibri here.

Model Optimizers

In that area there is also no competition for Solibri Optimizer.