Welcome,
This wizard will help you setup your BIMserver.

Address

The address your BIMserver will be available from. It will be pre-filled, but this is not necessarily the right address. If you are using a domain name, make sure to use it here.

Name/Description/Icon

Information that identifies this specific BIMserver instance. Remote servers will show this information for a user to identify this BIMserver.

You have to setup one administrator account (you can add more later). If you want to be able to reset your password, make sure to provide a working email address (and setup a mail server in the next step).
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A BIMserver without plugins will be pretty useless, so we have selected a few plugins that you might want to install. You can install more plugins after the setup. Please note that for installing plugins this way, your BIMserver will have to have a working (outgoing) internet connection.

For all selected plugins the latest version available for this version of BIMserver will be downloaded and installed. Currently the amount of work to check each plugin against each version of BIMserver is simply too much. For this reason the amount of available plugins can be limited for certain versions of BIMserver.

No internet connection You can also upload JAR files of plugins to install them, this is not the recommended way. Make sure you disable the checkboxes for the auto-installed plugin bundles.

Upload plugin JAR files

BIMvie.ws

A web application that has the following features:
  • BIMserver administration (add users, install plugins, manage server settings, create projects etc...)
  • Project-tree viewer
  • 3D viewer (BIMsurfer)
  • Object browser
  • Query tools
  • Upload/download models

Not installing Access to BIMserver functionality will be limited to the technical interfaces JSON, SOAP and Protocol Buffers and no GUI will be available if this plugin is not installed.

BIMsurfer 3

A 3D viewer for BIM models. This is not a standalone application but a (JavaScript) library, it does however contain a few example applications, which is why we include it here anyways.

IfcOpenShell

The open source ifc toolkit and geometry engine.

Not installing Without this plugin BIMserver will not be able to convert IFC geometry to triangles, and thus no viewers will be able to visualize the model in 3D

IfcPlugins

Contains serializers and deserializers for IFC and IfcXML and IfcJSON

Not installing Without this plugin BIMserver will not be able to read/write IFC

BinarySerializers

Contains binary serializers required for loading geometry in most of the viewers

Not installing Without this plugin BIMsurfer/BIMvie.ws and possiblt other viewers will not be able to load 3D geometry

Console

Webbased user interface for calling methods of the BIMserver API and reading the documentation

glTF

glTF 1 (with binary extension) and glTF 2 (glb) serializers

Default mergers

Default merger plugins, used for combining multiple IFC models into one IFC model


To communicate with other BIM-enabled servers, a set of Extended Data Schemas is available. You need a working internet connection _from_ your BIMserver for this to work.
Click the "Setup" button to finish the setup process