BIM project browser panel
The BIM project browser panel offers a central location to manage your BIM projects.

- Menu
- Sections
- Schedules
- Sheets
- Models
Menu
- Refresh
- Refreshes the BIM Project Browser panel to match changes in the model.
- Project Setup
- Opens the Project Setup dialog box that gives a complete overview of the project's files, in different categories.
- Sheetset Setup
- Opens the Sheetset Setup dialog box that allows to set up the complete set of sheets required to fit all bimsections in the project.
- Enable Background Update
- Calculates section results automatically, without interrupting the user workflow.
Sections
Displays a list of project sections organized by type: floor plans and elevations. You can expand a section type to see its sections.
A context menu displays when you right-click on a section:
- Section Properties…: opens the Section Properties dialog box where you can see and edit the properties of a section, such as the name and the result path.
- Select Section Entity: selects the section entity in the project model drawing.
- Rename: renames the section entity.
- Update: recalculates the section result.
- Display Section Result: displays the section result in the corresponding sheet and zooms in on its viewport. If not already open, the drawing is opened.
Schedules
Displays a list of project schedules.
A context menu displays when you right-click on the Schedules section.
- Add Schedule (Wizard)…: opens the Wizard Page dialog box that allows you to create a schedule based on a new or an existing data extraction definition.
- Add Schedule (From dxd)…: opens the Create Schedule dialog box that allows you to quickly add a BIM schedule, without the creation of a new .dxd file.
A context menu displays when you right-click on a schedule.
- Schedule Properties…: opens the Schedule Properties dialog box that allows you to modify the properties of a schedule.
- Create/Update Table: creates a sheet with the schedule or updates the sheet.
- Create/Update CSV: creates a CSV file with the schedule information and saves it in the folder where the model file is located or updates the CSV file if it already exists.
- Display Schedule: displays the schedule in the resulting drawing. If not already open, the drawing is opened.
- Edit: opens the Wizard Page dialog box that allows you to edit the schedule.
- Remove...: displays the Remove dialog box that allows you to choose between Schedule Entity and Sheet View/Result and removes the schedule.
Sheets
Displays a list of project sheets. You can expand a sheet name to see its sheet views.
A context menu appears when you right-click on the Sheets section:
- Sheetset Setup…: opens the Sheetset Setup dialog box that allows you to create a layout from scratch.
- Add Subset: adds a subset in the Sheets tab.
- Add Sheet…: adds a new sheet in a subset in the Sheets tab.
- Sheetset Options…: opens the Sheet sets tab in the Settings dialog box that allows you to modify the sheet sets options.
A context menu displays when you right-click on a sheet name:
- Sheet Properties…: opens the Sheet Properties dialog box that allows you to modify the properties of a sheet.
- Open Sheet: opens the corresponding sheet.
- Remove…: opens the Remove dialog box that allows you to choose between Result Drawing and Sheet and removes the sheet.
A context menu displays when you right-click on a sheet view:
- View Properties…: opens the Sheet View Properties dialog box that allows you to modify the properties of a sheet view.
- Display View: displays the corresponding result and zooms in on its viewport.
- Update: updates the sheet view. It executes the BIMSECTIONUPDATE command for the related BIM section.
- Subset Properties…: opens the Subset Properties dialog box that allows you to modify the properties of a subset.
Models
Displays a list of project models.
A context menu displays when you right-click on a model with the following options:
- Model Properties…: opens the Model Properties dialog box that allows you to see more information about the model.
- Close Drawing: for a currently open model,it closes the model.
- Open Drawing: for a currently closed model, it opens the model.
- Remove from Model List: removes the drawing from the project model drawings.