BIM model checking software that checks what you actually asked for
Plannerly Verify is BIM model checking and validation software. It checks every model against your own information requirements automatically, and shows which elements pass, which fail and which team owns the fix. Upload IFC, Revit or any of over 60 formats, or bring models in from ACC.
Check every model your supply chain delivers against the requirements you set, element by element, before you accept it. Every check is on the record and the charts update automatically. JTC went from weeks of model checks to hours.
Check every subcontractor's model against the client's requirements before it leaves your hands, so the client's own checks find nothing new - and you can show who fixed what.
Check your own and your consultants' models against the client's requirements before each issue, and see exactly which property is missing on which element.
Run model checking for every client from one set of requirements: exported as IDS for their authors, and checked automatically in Verify on every model they deliver.
Show students what model checking really means: requirements in, model checked, every missing property traced to its element, using the example models in the free education plans.
Free plan, no card. The 14-day Pro trial includes model checking.
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What automated BIM model checking saves
95%Less time spent validating modelsJTC Corporation, Singapore: from weeks of model checks to hours
11,000Excel rows replaced by automated checksJTC Corporation, Singapore: 2,000+ object types across 27 model categories
60%Less time tracking scope and verifying modelsJonathan Griffiths, Senior VDC Engineer, reiSource
How it works
How Verify checks every model against your requirements, step by step
Set the rules once
A PDF of requirements can't check anything. Write each property the project needs - name, rule, value, unit and property set - against the elements and milestones it applies to.
One set of rules, for people and software
Bring the models in
No more models arriving by email. Upload IFC, Revit or any of over 60 formats, or connect Autodesk Construction Cloud and BIM 360 so new versions come across by themselves.
Every version in one place
Check every element
Nobody has time to click through every element. Verify checks each linked element automatically: the property is there, its value and unit meet the rule, and it sits in the right property set.
Pass or fail, element by element
Fix it and report it
Each team sees its own failed checks as tasks on the Kanban board. The charts update automatically as they fix them, and a PDF report can go out every week by itself.
Evidence of who fixed what
Watch the overview
See a model checked against its requirements
From the free Level 1 course
The Verify overview
The Kanban board, the 3D model, the elements linked to each task and the share of checks each task passes. It's the first Verify lesson of the free Level 1 course.
Charts that update themselves
See how complete every model is, without building a report
Requirement completions
Correct, incorrect or missing, at a glance
"How are the models looking?" shouldn't cost you an afternoon in Excel. Add a chart to any document in Docs and it counts every requirement check on the linked model elements as correct, incorrect or missing. Filter it by milestone, team, team member, status or work package, so each person sees the part they're accountable for.
Requirement completions, task status and scope task status charts
Side by side or stacked, as donuts or bars
No export to Excel or Power BI, and no filters to rebuild
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Updated automatically
Fix the model, move the task, and the charts follow
When a team fixes what failed and moves its task across the Kanban board, the dashboard updates automatically. Nobody refreshes it, copies numbers into a spreadsheet or rebuilds a slide, and everyone sees the same picture of who has fixed what.
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Shared every week
A progress report that sends itself
The project dashboard shows live charts of document and task statuses to everyone on the project. Export your model checking dashboard to PDF once, set it to go out every week - Monday at 9am, say - and your team gets the latest statuses without you lifting a finger.
BIM validation that fits how your project already works
IDS checking
One set of requirements for every checker
Requirements in a PDF get skimmed once and forgotten. In Plannerly they live as data, and you can export them as a buildingSMART IDS (Information Delivery Specification) file. Authors check their own models against it in tools such as Solibri or Archicad before they submit, and Verify checks the delivered model against the same rules. Nobody checks against a different version of the truth.
Export your requirements as a buildingSMART IDS file
Authors check before they submit, in their own tools
Verify checks the delivered model against the same rules
Checking last week's emailed copy wastes everyone's time. Your ACC or BIM 360 administrator enables the Plannerly app once per hub, then someone with Manager permission in Plannerly connects the hub in Verify and links the models you need. New versions come across by themselves, and the permissions you already have in ACC still apply. In File Manager, CDE Connect syncs the Autodesk folders you choose.
ACC, BIM 360, Autodesk Docs and Forma Data Management
Your existing ACC permissions still apply
Part of Pro, including its 14-day trial, and Company
A free 45-minute webinar on 5 November, from How to survive as a BIM Manager.Delivered files matched to the requests they fill, and dashboards that move as they arrive.
Free download
Check your first model this week: a starter project and three free PDFs
Free download
Model Checking Survival Kit: a starter project and 3 PDFs
Everything to check models the way this page does: a starter project with example requirements ready to check, the IDS checking guide, the model checking slides from BIM Boot Camp and the ISO 19650 tracking and compliance step.
1 starter project
3 PDFs
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Model checking starter project
Example requirements in Scope, ready to export as an IDS file and to check your first model in Verify.
How JTC cut model checking from weeks to hours, and two more teams that check this way
A government agency in Singapore that replaced 11,000 Excel rows with automated checks, a transport department in Australia checking its supply chain's models, and a consultancy bringing Plannerly and Solibri together across three countries.
Two government owners checking supply-chain models against requirements they set themselves: JTC made model validation 95% faster, and Queensland's transport department checks what its suppliers deliver.
How owners now check what their contractors deliver, property by property - and what that means for the models you hand over.
How owners now check design models, property by property - and what that means for your next issue.
AdRem brings Plannerly and Solibri together for government compliance in three countries, alongside the owners who set the bar.
Three real model checking programmes your students can study: what was required, how it was checked and what failed.
Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads · Government owner
Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads uses Plannerly Verify to check supply-chain model data against defined information requirements, giving the team more certainty that model deliverables contain the information they expect.
It highlights the need for due diligence when pulling all of the pieces of the puzzle together.
Integrated Plannerly with Solibri's Accessibility Code Checker for automated CORENET X compliance in Singapore, and now rolling out ISO 19650 certification across Malaysia and Indonesia.
Plannerly is critical to our information compliance standards and now with the tracking reports built in, we can spend more time ensuring better quality deliverables and less time collecting compliance statistics with screenshots.
VLVoon Lok, Managing Director · AdRem IT Solutions
CORENET X
Solibri
ISO 19650
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What teams say
Owners, consultants and Autodesk on checking models in Verify
In their own words: what changes when every requirement is checked automatically and every check is on the record.
Owners on making every requirement traceable, and on the checks their suppliers now pass.
Contractors and consultants on spending less time verifying models.
What owners and their consultants now expect from every model you issue.
Consultants on running model checking for government clients.
What owners, consultants and Autodesk say about model checking, for your students to weigh up.
5 out of 5
Compliance checks used to be a black box. Now, every requirement is traceable and auditable.
JKJohn KiongDirector, Future of Building & Infrastructure · JTC Corporation
5 out of 5
Plannerly cut the time we spent tracking scope and verifying models by 60%.
When you're helping governments go digital, you need a platform teams actually understand. That's Plannerly.
VLVoon LokManaging Director · AdRem IT Solutions
5 out of 5
It highlights the need for due diligence when pulling all of the pieces of the puzzle together to make sure there are no errors in the definition of our information requirements.
BMBryan McSweeneyManager - Special Projects, Digital Systems · Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads
5 out of 5
Verify's integration with Autodesk Construction Cloud helps make BIM management more seamless for customers.
JCJames CookHead of Integrations · Autodesk
Setup guides
Set up model checking in Plannerly, step by step
Learn it properly
Level 1 · BIM Management Basics
The Verify assignment: check a model yourself, then download your free certificate
BIM model checking and validation: your questions, answered
What is BIM model checking software?
Software that checks whether a BIM model contains what the project asked for. Plannerly Verify checks the information in the model - each element's properties, values, units and property sets - against your project's own information requirements, and shows the result element by element. It answers the question that matters at handover: does this model carry the data we specified? The model checking guide walks through the whole job.
What does BIM validation check in Plannerly?
Three things for every linked element: the required property exists, its value meets the rule (unit included), and it sits in the property set or requirement group the requirement names. If the value is right but it's in the wrong property set, Verify reports it as missing, so the model follows the structure your project defined. How property sets and requirement groups are validated.
Are models checked automatically?
Yes. Once a model is processed and its elements are linked to their tasks, every check runs automatically and the charts update automatically as teams fix what failed. Processing runs in the background and emails you when it's done; a 150 MB Revit file typically takes 5 to 20 minutes. Linking models for auto-checking, a free lesson, shows how.
What should a BIM model validation checklist include?
For each element and milestone: the properties it must carry, the rule each value must meet (a number between two values, one of a list, true or false, or simply not empty), the unit, and the property set it belongs in. Add your file and naming checks from your quality control process. Written in Plannerly, that checklist becomes the checks themselves, so nobody ticks it by hand. The UK BIM Framework guidance covers what to ask for.
What is IDS checking, and does Plannerly support IDS?
IDS (Information Delivery Specification) is the buildingSMART standard for writing information requirements as a file that checking software can read. In Plannerly you write the requirements once and export them as an IDS file. Authors check their own IFC models against it before they submit, and Verify checks the delivered model against the same requirements. IDS: the complete guide and how to create an IDS file.
Which file formats can Verify check?
Over 60 model file formats, IFC, Revit, DWG and DWF among them. Before processing you can already walk through, measure, section and inspect a model; processing extracts every element and property so the automatic checks can run. What processing does, and how long it takes.
Does Verify work with Autodesk Construction Cloud and BIM 360?
Yes. An administrator enables the Plannerly app once in each ACC or BIM 360 hub, then someone with Manager permission in Plannerly connects the hub in Verify and links the models. New versions come across by themselves, and the permissions you already have in ACC still apply. Connecting ACC is part of Pro, including its free 14-day trial, and Company. Link your ACC or BIM 360 account, then see CDE Connect for files.
Can I see model checking progress in a chart?
Yes. Add a chart to any document in Docs to show requirement completions (correct, incorrect or missing), task status or scope task status, and filter it by milestone, team, team member, status or work package. The charts update automatically as models are checked and tasks move, and you can export the dashboard to PDF and have it sent every week by itself. Build a model checking dashboard and filter charts by work package.
Why does a property show as missing when it's in the model?
Usually because the names don't match exactly - a trailing space, or a lowercase l where the requirement has a capital I - or because the property sits in a different property set, or on a parent assembly rather than the element itself. Checking is exact by design. Why a property is connected but not checking, and why properties turn red after grouping.
Is Verify a clash detection tool?
Not yet, though it's on the way. Today Verify checks the information in the model - whether each element carries the data you asked for - rather than clashes between geometry. Keep your clash detection tool for clashes for now, and use Verify to show the model's data is complete and correct. What a model check finds.
Can I validate a model offline, or before it's shared?
Verify runs in your browser, so checking in Plannerly needs a connection. Before anything is shared, give your authors the IDS file: they can check their models offline in their own tools, such as Solibri or Archicad, or bring the IDS into Revit. Verify then checks the delivered model against the same rules.
Can I try model checking for free?
Yes. On the Free plan you can write your requirements and explore Verify. Checking your own models is part of Pro, and the 14-day Pro trial includes model checking, with no card. The free education plans come with example models. Start free, or compare the plans.
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