BIM ingame tutorial

Welcome to the BIM workbench!
This tutorial will walk you through the different functionalities of the BIM workbench and help you to get on tracks by modeling a very simple project. It should take around one hour to complete entirely. You can interrupt it anytime and resume it later, by selecting menu Help -> Welcome screen, and clicking the BIM Tutorial item again.

Set FreeCAD up
FreeCAD has a large preferences system with many options to set, located under menu Edit->Preferences. Each additional workbench can add more preferences pages, which makes it even more complex. The BIM workbench provides a simplified setup screen, which allows to quickly set some of the most useful preferences for BIM work. The BIM preferences screen is located under menu Manage -> BIM Setup (you can also click the corresponding button on the Manage toolbar):



Open the simplified BIM preferences screen now, and set the different options to your liking.