Comparison with other Solutions

Requirement / criterion BIMcatalogs.net by CADENAS Other solutions
The Company CADENAS has been in the market of Electronic Product Catalogs since 1992. With more than 300 employees in 17 international locations we are the biggest provider in regards to workers and turnover. Our profitability has increased by more than 10% in the past few years. Therefore, there is a guaranteed high protection of investment for your company.
The number of catalogs
Experience from more than 700 sucessful Electronic Product Catalog projects, e.g.:
The data migration / data creation

You already have data?

CADENAS offers companies with existing catalogs and BIM Object families an easy solution to migrate the data and create additional values.

You don't have any data?

For companies that have no BIM Object families as of yet, CADENAS offers the service of creating the data through the CADENAS Content Creation Center or - if you want to undertake the task alone - we also offer the special BIMcatalogs.net eCATALOG software. From a uniform central data model, the BIM catalogs will be created for numerous BIM Architectural software systems, versions, languages, classifications and markets.

The technical, marketing and sales opportunities by a 3D BIM product catalog
The international marketing

With CADENAS you'll be present on more than 80 Vertical Market Places, portals and social communities.

The integration into your company website and 3D preview
Seamless integration und full support of your Corporate Design is possible thanks to PARTcommunity Embedded technology. Thus you can increase the length of time architects will stay on your website and reduce the bounce rate due to external pages. A 3D Preview based on WEBGL (no installation of plug-ins neccessary!) as well as the visualization with 3D dimensioning that is also possible will show architects all information at a glance.
The supported 2D & 3D BIM & AEC CAD formats are based on a MultiBIMcad data model (Single Source Of Truth)
  • AutoCAD
  • Allplan
  • ArchiCAD
  • Autodesk Revit
  • MicroStation + AECOsim
  • IFC
  • Trimble SketchUp
  • VDI3805
  • Vectorworks (in development)
  • DWF
  • DWG
  • DXF

Furthermore you can generate additional formats for plant engineering and mechanical engineering, e.g.:

  • Aveva PDMS / Marine
  • BeckerCAD
  • Caddy
  • Creo
  • IGES
  • Inventor
  • JT
  • Mechanical Desktop
  • MegaCAD
  • NX
  • SAT
  • STEP
  • STL
  • Solid Edge
  • SolidWorks
  • VX
  • Visicad
  • and many more

Additionally we can offer you graphical, rendered and marketing formats:

  • BMP
  • JPEG
  • 3D PDF
  • Animated GIF
  • 3D Studio MAX
  • Photo realistic rendering
  • and many more
The product selection, configuration and search methods
  • Full text search
  • Product selection and configuration
  • 2D Sketch search
  • 3D Geometrical similarity search
  • Filter search by assistants
  • Calculation assistants
  • Request for quotation
The features are available online, offline(DVD)and mobile!
The tender texts TXT, PDF, and many more
The classifications
  • IFC
  • Uniclass
  • Omniclass
  • PDT (UK)
  • RFT (Revit)
  • eCl@ss
  • and many more
The statistics / The sales tool

Opportunities to evaluate all downloads and contact data of users by city, ZIP, country and many more

Know who and where your customers are: Offer products to the right person at the right place at the proper time - Aren't that great opportunities for your sales team?

With the Smart Sales Tool you'll get just this and much more.

The languages
  • Chinese
  • Czech
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • and many more
The Social Media Opportunities Embedding of BIMcatalogs.net product catalogs on Facebook and other social media platforms.
The Tradeshow Entertainment
  • Augmented Reality
  • Virtual Reality
  • Anaglyph/Stereoscopic
  • Holography
  • Kinect and Wii controls for 3D BIM Models
  • iBEACON

Brochure: Ideas for Marketing

The Search Engine Optimization The BIMcatalogs.net Network has a high Google Page rank and a high Domain Authority. Alexa.com ranks BIMcatalogs.net at 57,000 place worldwide. This means that your BIM objects which are listed on BIMcatalogs.net are placed much further up on the search results from Google.