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BIM and IFC

Open BIM, IFC exports and getting models into Revit, Rhino and ArchiCAD.

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Collage of BIM models at different levels of development: an atrium with a curtain wall and spiral stair, a white villa, an office with its ductwork, a villa floor cut open, an arched window family and a house in section
BIM and IFC

LOD in BIM: Level of Development 100 to 500, Explained with Real Models

LOD in BIM is the Level of Development of each model element, from LOD 100 to 500. What every level means in the 2025 BIMForum spec, LOD vs level of detail and LOIN, and the LOD our own AI-generated models reach.

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Collage of Autodesk's Revit buy pages for the US, Germany and the EU, the official Revit LT, Revit and AEC Collection price comparison, the AIBIMTool homepage and a chart of what one year of Revit costs by plan
BIM and IFC

Revit Price 2026: What Revit Really Costs in the US, UK and EU

Revit costs $3,005 a year ($251 a month billed yearly) or $380 a month in the US, €3,106 a year in Germany and £2,712 in the UK. Every Revit, Revit LT, AEC Collection and Flex price checked on Autodesk's own pages, plus when each plan is the cheaper one and how to spend less.

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Collage of BIM software homepages: AIBIMTool's brief-to-BIM prompt, Autodesk Revit, Graphisoft Archicad, Snaptrude, Autodesk Forma Site Design and Bonsai
BIM and IFC

Best BIM Software in 2026: 8 Tools Ranked, Plus the Best AI BIM Tools

The best BIM software in 2026, ranked: AIBIMTool, Revit, Archicad, Snaptrude, Vectorworks, Allplan, Tekla and Bonsai, plus the six AI BIM tools worth trying, with prices, free plans, real screenshots and who each one is for.

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Collage of BIM models: a school drawn in blue line work, a villa cutaway, a concrete structural frame, a white villa, a terraced building with planting and an office cutaway
BIM and IFC

What Is an IFC File? How to Open, Edit and Check One

An IFC file is the open BIM format defined in ISO 16739. What is inside one, free ways to open and edit it, and the export mistakes we found in our own files.

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Workflows and Tutorials

Step-by-step guides to getting a project from brief to BIM.

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Collage of the pages this guide uses: Autodesk's Revit Public MCP Server announcement, the Revit product page, the Claude download page, the mcp-servers-for-revit and mcp-server-for-revit-python repositories on GitHub and the AIBIMTool homepage
Workflows and Tutorials

How to Connect Claude to Revit: The 3 Revit MCP Servers, Set Up Step by Step

Connect Claude to Autodesk Revit with MCP: Autodesk's official Revit 2027 server, the open-source mcp-servers-for-revit for Revit 2020 to 2026, and the pyRevit route, with exact configs, prompts and pitfalls. Plus the no-setup alternative: AIBIMTool, Claude-powered BIM modelling online with a free plan.

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Collage: a two-storey office generated in AIBIMTool and opened as a Rhino .3dm file with walls, doors and rooms, McNeel's Rhino MCP Platform docs for Claude Desktop, the AIBIMTool project view, the RhinoAI and rhinomcp repositories on GitHub and the VisualARQ homepage
Workflows and Tutorials

How to Connect Claude to Rhino for BIM: Rhino MCP, Grasshopper and IFC

Connect Claude to Rhino with McNeel's official Rhino MCP Platform or rhinomcp, step by step, then get a real BIM model into Rhino: VisualARQ, a free IFC-to-3dm script we tested on an AIBIMTool building, and prompts for BIM work in Rhino and Grasshopper.

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Collage of architectural drawings: a building section with grid lines and dimensions, an axonometric of a villa, a front elevation, a site plan with the street, a reflected ceiling plan and a hatched stair detail
Workflows and Tutorials

Architectural Drawings: 12 Types, Scales and How to Read Them

What architectural drawings are, the 12 types in a full drawing set with real examples, US scales, sheet numbers like A-101, the drawings each project phase produces and how to read them.

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