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Sign in
Go to app.gingerbim.com and sign in (or create an account). You’ll land on your dashboard, which lists your workspaces and projects.
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Set up your workspace
A workspace is your team’s home in GingerBIM — one workspace per team. It holds all of the team’s projects and its collaborators: invite your teammates once at the workspace level and work together across every project inside it.
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Create a project
A project is where a job’s models, sheets, and discussions live. It can cover a single building or several — a condominium project with multiple blocks is still one project. Create one from your workspace, give it a name, and open its home page. The project page has tabs across the top — Models, Canvas, Discussions, Collaborators, and Settings.
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Publish your model
GingerBIM accepts three types of model data: SketchUp, Rhino, and IFC.
- SketchUp or Rhino — download the dedicated connector from the Connectors page in the app and publish your model straight from SketchUp or Rhino into a project model. See Connectors.
- IFC — create a model on the project’s Models tab and upload the IFC file to it directly.
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Open the model in the 3D viewer
Click the model to open it in the viewer. The viewer loads the latest version and gives you the toolbars for selection, drawings, schedules, and the object sidebar.
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Select an element and check its data
Click any element. The object sidebar opens with the element’s identity (Description, IfcType, Material, Status) and its property sets. Elements without a category show “No IFC Type assigned” — set the IfcType first, since it drives which property sets, presets, and schedules apply. See IFC-SG & Element Properties and Categorising Objects.
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Document it
From here you can build live schedules, generate plans, sections, and elevations, and lay out sheets for PDF/DXF export.