Create a project and upload a set
Set up your first project, get a drawing set in, and know what Bimiq is doing while it processes.
A project is the boundary around everything Bimiq knows. Documents, findings, RFIs and decisions all belong to exactly one project, and nothing crosses between them.
Create the project
From Projects, create a new project and give it the name your team already uses for the job. The name is what you will search for later, so match the drawing title block rather than inventing a short code.
Upload a drawing set
Open Drawing QA/QC in the project sidebar and choose Upload drawing set.
Upload the set as one PDF, not as individual sheets. Bimiq splits the PDF into sheets itself, and several of the most useful checks compare sheets against each other. A callout on A-201 that points at a detail on A-511 can only be resolved if both sheets are in the same set.
A "set" means an issue: the drawings that went out together on a date. Upload the 90% CD set as one PDF, and when the 100% set arrives, upload that as a second set. Keeping issues separate is what lets you see what changed.
If your drawings live in SharePoint, ACC or Procore, use Import from instead of uploading by hand. See Connect a document source.
What happens while it processes
Uploading does not start the review. Processing runs in two distinct stages, and only the second one costs credits.
Splitting
The PDF is broken into individual sheets, and each sheet gets a page image. This is free, and it is what the sheet count in the summary strip is counting.
Analysis
You start this yourself with Analyze. Each sheet is read by a vision model, which pulls out the title block, grids, tags, dimensions and callouts, then the checks run over what it found. This is the metered step. See How credits work.
Splitting a large set takes a while. You can leave the page and come back, and the set will continue processing.
Reading the result
Opening a set puts you in the sheet viewer: the sheet on the left, its findings on the right. Selecting a finding highlights the region of the sheet it came from, so you can judge it against the drawing instead of taking it on trust.
Full detail is in Drawing QA/QC and Review.
Add your standards first, if you have them
Before analysing, it is worth opening Standards and uploading the drawing standards or building code your firm works to. Bimiq extracts rules from those documents and checks the set against them as well as against its built-in checks. Without them you still get the built-in checks, which are the ones that do not depend on your firm's conventions.
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