Features
Everything follows from one model.
What CreaBIM does today, what each part is for, and the guide page that shows you how. The same pages are inside the app: press F1 over any tool.
01Modelling
Build it the way it is built.
Real building elements that know what they are, drawn with snaps and guides in any view: plan, section, elevation or 3D.
- WallsLayered assemblies, location lines, clean L, T and cross joins, flip in or out.Read the guide →
- Doors and windowsThey cut their own holes, flip hand and swing, and tag themselves.Read the guide →
- Slabs and roofsFrom an outline or picked walls, with holes, slopes and arcs.Read the guide →
- Columns, beams and footingsStructure on grids and levels, with your own profiles.Read the guide →
- Stairs and railingsStraight runs and landings, with railings that follow.Read the guide →
- Curtain wallsGrids of panels and mullions on a wall's path.Read the guide →
- Rooms and ceilingsRooms with areas and tags; ceilings from the room outline.Read the guide →
- Masses and sketchesFreeform volumes for concept work, extruded from a sketch.Read the guide →
- Furniture, fixtures and siteCatalogue objects that sit against walls, and the ground around the building.Read the guide →
- Types and materialsChange a type once and every element of it follows.Read the guide →
- ProfilesDraw a coping, gutter or steel section once in the Profile view; sweeps, columns, beams and railings use it.Read the guide →
- DivideCut a wall, beam or part into even parts, add guides at the divisions, or copy something into each.Read the guide →
02Editing
Edit like a modeller.
Blender-style keys for move, rotate and scale, typed values for exact work, and an Edit mode for points, edges and faces.
- Move, rotate, scalePress the key, move the pointer, type a value.Read the guide →
- Edit modePick points, edges or faces; push and pull a face.Read the guide →
- Align and handlesAlign to any edge; drag grips in 2D and handles in 3D.Read the guide →
- Snaps and guidesEndpoints, midpoints, intersections and dashed guide lines.Read the guide →
- SelectingClick, box select, select all of a type, isolate with /.Read the guide →
- Undo, alwaysEvery change, in every view, is one undo step.Read the guide →
- View areas and workspacesSplit the window like Blender: plan, section, sheet and 3D side by side, saved as your own layouts.Read the guide →
- Properties in tabsThe element, the view and the project, each a tab; several elements edited at once.Read the guide →
··Under the hood
Small, fast, and quiet.
Written in Rust and drawn on your graphics card. Sections and 3D drawings build on every core in the background; left alone, the app uses next to no CPU.
- 16MBThe Windows installer
- 0.2sFrom double-click to a window
- 0.3%CPU when you leave it alone
- 0accountsNo sign-in, no cloud, no telemetry
Measured with the starter house on a 16-core Windows desktop.
03Drawings and documents
Drawings you can submit.
Plans, sections and elevations are read from the model, with cut lines, hidden lines removed and the annotation an architect expects.
- Plans, sections and elevationsLive views, at any scale, cut where you draw them.Read the guide →
- View range and graphic stylesCut height, depth, line weights and hatches by category.Read the guide →
- Dimensions, tags and marksDimension chains, door, window and room tags, level and section marks.Read the guide →
- DetailsCallouts with their own crop and scale.Read the guide →
- SheetsTitle blocks, scales and live views, rulers and guides, exported as vector PDF.Read the guide →
- Revisions and key plansRevision clouds with their table, and a key plan over the title block.Read the guide →
- Notes and the notepadNotes with Markdown on drawings, and a project notepad of to-dos that never prints.Read the guide →
- Number formatsHow dimensions, levels, tags and schedules write their numbers, kept with the style pack.Read the guide →
- Schedules and take-offDoor, window and room schedules; quantities by material, to CSV and XLSX.Read the guide →
04Files and exchange
Open formats, both ways.
Your project is an open, documented file. Other tools read what CreaBIM writes, and CreaBIM reads theirs.
- IFCRead IFC2X3, IFC4 and IFC4X3; write IFC4, with a choice of how walls, slabs and roofs go out, and IFC5 (alpha).Read the guide →
- BlenderglTF / GLB out to Blender, and a Blender import.Read the guide →
- FreeCADWrite a FreeCAD document.Read the guide →
- DXF and SVGDXF in as a reference to trace over; plans out as SVG.Read the guide →
- Trace a referenceA picture, a DXF or another view under the one you draw in.Read the guide →
- The project filePlain, open JSON with a published schema.Read the guide →
05Where it stands
Ready to explore, not yet for production.
CreaBIM covers the whole path from model to sheets and IFC. Some parts are young, and we say which.
Works today
- Walls, slabs, roofs, columns, beams, footings, doors and windows
- Plans, sections, elevations, sheets and schedules from one model
- Quantities and take-off
- IFC4 in and out; glTF and FreeCAD exchange
Still young
- IFC export of some elements
- Blender import and export
- DXF (lines only)
- Stairs (basic shapes)
The full list is in Known gaps on GitHub.