u/MilkResponsible9242

I'm a solo developer building a Windows CAD tool specifically for small MEP fabrication shops — it takes an IFC model straight to spool drawings without needing a professional license.

Looking for 2-3 people who do MEP detailing or fabrication work to give honest feedback on the workflow. Happy to share a demo video first so you know what you're looking at.

If that's you, PM me or drop a comment.

I'm a solo developer building a Windows CAD tool specifically for small MEP fabrication shops — it takes an IFC model straight to spool drawings without needing a professional license.

Looking for 2-3 people who do MEP detailing or fabrication work to give honest feedback on the workflow. Happy to share a demo video first so you know what you're looking at.

If that's you, PM me or drop a comment.

Is anyone interested in providing feedback for my small BIM program?

if so, please PM me.

Is anyone interested in providing feedback for my small BIM program?

if so, please PM me.

I am working to fill some industry gaps with my own developed BIM Software.

What are the gaps you can think of in current BIM professional software's?

Right now my software can import IFC files and get IFC data. i am focusing on manipulating IFC data at this time.

Can run the program on Windows.

I've been deep in this problem for 18 months and I'm genuinely curious what the community's experience is.

The specific workflow I've been researching: a small MEP contractor (5-20 people) receives a structural or architectural IFC from the design team, needs to coordinate their systems against it, and produce fabrication-ready output.

From my research, the options seem to be:

1. Full authoring software — powerful but expensive and complex for small shops

2. Free IFC viewers — great for review but you can't author on top of them

3. Nothing — just PDFs and manual coordination

A few questions I'd genuinely like the community's view on:

→ Is the "received IFC, need to route MEP on top" workflow common at small shops, or is it mostly large contractors?

→ What's the biggest friction point between getting an IFC and getting to fabrication?

→ Are there tools solving this that I'm not aware of?

I've been building something to test my assumptions about this gap

https://preview.redd.it/x4kp8xa8gmah1.png?width=1512&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee1161fc2f9073a6c4c12aa957d554d7a36e995e

but I'm more interested in whether I've got the problem right than in promoting the solution.

Happy to share technical details about the IFC parsing approach or MEP routing decisions if

that's useful to anyone.