BIM Workbench

Introduction
The BIM workbench is an external workbench aimed at implementing complete Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools and workflow in FreeCAD. It is an extension and currently looks much like the built-in Arch Workbench. The general idea, however, is to work as a "meta workbench", and gather in one place different tools from other workbenches that are useful to BIM, and create a workflow that is more convenient, easy and user-friendly to both experienced BIM users coming from other software like Revit or ArchiCAD and newcomers alike. The BIM workbench also features a couple of tools on its own, that are mostly wizards and management tools, located under the Management menu



Installing
The BIM workbench is not bundled with the default FreeCAD package, but can easily be installed via menu Tools -> Addons Manager. The BIM workbench code is hosted on github and can also be installed manually by copying it into FreeCAD's MOD directory.

Getting started
Upon starting the BIM workbench for the first time, a welcome dialog is shown, giving a quick overview of how the workbench works, and allowing the user to start an in-game tutorial. The welcome dialog is also available in the help menu. When the welcome screen is closed, the BIM setup dialog will be shown, that allows the user to quickly set some of the most common BIM-related preferences of FreeCAD without the need to browse through the full FreeCAD preferences pages.