Getting started
5Your first hour: the starter house, a first house in eight steps, the window.
Tutorials
Learn it by building.
Start with a first house in eight short steps, then dip into the guide for any tool. Every page here is also inside the app, one key away: F1.
01Getting started
A first house, step by step.
A small one-storey house from scratch, ending with a printed sheet and an IFC file. Each step takes a few minutes; stop at any point and come back.
- 1Start a projecta new empty project, or a sample to look at
- 2Set up the levelsthe floors of the building
- 3Draw the wallsthe outline of the house
- 4Add doors and windowsthey cut their own holes
- 5Add a floor and a roofslabs and roofs from an outline
- 6Look at it: plans, sections and 3Dviews made from the model
- 7Put it on a sheeta drawing ready to print
- 8Save and exportthe project file, PDF and IFC
Want to see a finished model first? CreaBIM opens on the starter house, and File › New starter house brings it back.
02The film
A minute with CreaBIM 1.1.
What CreaBIM is for, and what is new in 1.1: the model and its drawings, your layout and theme, selection and Edit mode, profiles, and sheets with title blocks of your own. Captions are on the CC button.
- 0:00CreaBIM
- 0:04One model, every drawing
- 0:15Your layout, your theme
- 0:22Box, circle and lasso selection
- 0:30Edit mode
- 0:38Profiles
- 0:47Sheets, title blocks and schedules
- 1:00Free, open source, offline
- 1:10Download
03Before you start
Find your way around.
04The guide
Every tool, explained.
The complete guide from the app, by subject. The same pages open in CreaBIM with F1.
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Selecting and editing
7Pick, move, align, reshape in Edit mode, divide, undo.
Building the model
24Walls, openings, slabs, roofs, structure, profiles, site and rooms.
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- Slabs
- Roofs
- Columns and beams
- Stairs and railings
- Footings
- Extrusions, sweeps and voids
- Profiles
- Site: terrain, hard landscape and planting
- Curtain walls
- Types
- Layered assemblies
- Materials
- Masses, modifiers and booleans
- Sketches and the workplane
- Grids
- Furniture and fixtures
- Electrical, plumbing and HVAC fixtures
- Rooms
- Ceilings
- Joins
Views and drawings
12Plans, sections, view range, styles, schedules and sheets.
Annotation
6Dimensions, tags, marks, spot levels, notes and their styles.
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Drawing aids
4Snaps, guides, units and number formats, project information.
Files and exchange
6Saving, IFC, Blender, FreeCAD, glTF, PDF, SVG and DXF.
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Reference
3Every shortcut, the BIM words, and about CreaBIM.