Opening and saving

The project file

A CreaBIM project is a .creabim file. It holds the model, its views, sheets, styles and templates, and the undo history: you can still undo after closing and reopening the project.

• Ctrl+S or File › Save saves. Save as… saves under another name.
• Ctrl+O or File › Open… opens a .creabim, .ifc or .ifcx file.
• File › Open recent lists the last ten projects.
• Dropping a file on the window opens it.

Exports are written next to the project file, with its name.

While the project has unsaved changes, a dot shows beside its name in the top bar, and the window's title starts with a •. Closing CreaBIM then asks first: Save, Don't save or Cancel.

The activity log

CreaBIM keeps a plain text log of what you did in this session: each drag frame by frame, every edit and undo, every tool change, and what went wrong. Nothing leaves your computer.

To read it, pick Log in an area's view-type menu. The Log view shows the log as it is written, with problems in red. Problems only keeps just crashes, errors and what could not be done; Copy copies what is shown, to paste in a message; Open the folder shows where the whole log is kept.

Report a problem

When something goes wrong, Help › Report a problem… (or the button in the Log view) saves one file to attach to a bug report or an email: a summary of the version, your system and what is open, the whole activity log and your settings, and the project as it is now only if you say yes. Nothing is sent anywhere by CreaBIM: you choose where the file goes.

Linked files

File › Import and link… brings in the objects of a Blender (.blend) or FreeCAD (.FCStd) file. They stay linked: with Reload linked files when saved ticked, saving the file in Blender or FreeCAD updates them here within a second. Reload a linked file does it by hand. See Blender and FreeCAD.

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