<h2 id="bao8q5rzct4" data-toc-id="bao8q5rzct4">Excel import of catalogs</h2><p>If you have an existing catalog as Excel file and want to transfer it to LastBIM, please contact us. We can import the Excel file for you and check if your Excel file is compatible for this.</p><p>There is already a Beta version of the import available. You can use it when creating a new catalog within a project or standard. A detailed documentation of the configuration will come soon. 🔜</p><div data-type="horizontalRule"><hr></div><h2 id="ftx0b500wfa" data-toc-id="ftx0b500wfa">BIM Portal property import</h2><p>If you only want to import properties of a public organization you can use the BIM Portal property import.</p><blockquote><p>Learn more about the BIM Portal property import here: <span data-type="mention" class="dark:bg-border bg-[#E9ECF1] px-1 py-0.5 text-sm shadow-none rounded-md" data-id="eyJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiI0NjYyNDE1IiwiaGVscENlbnRlcklkIjoiN25xMGtyMnpiYTNkaWE0YiIsIm9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbklkIjoiNjgxNDg0ZDA4ZDdmZjMzYzAxMGVkMTYyIiwibG9jYWxlIjoiZW4iLCJzdGF0ZSI6ImxpdmUifQ==-article" data-label="Create &amp; Update Properties">@Create &amp; Update Properties</span></p></blockquote><p></p>

Building the complete catalog manually can be tedious if you already have it in another format - even if you do it with LastBIM. That's where our imports come into play.

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Get started with some video-based tutorials that guide you through the first steps and find out where you can learn more about the discussed topics.

Getting started

LastBIM will help you to communicate your information requirements across BIM projects, give you tools to speed-up the attribution of models and check the quality of your models.

What is LastBIM?

Get an overview of everything you can do in LastBIM.

Product Overview

Get started in LastBIM by following these simple steps.

Create Your First Project

Videos & Webinars

Get an overview of the different symbols on the LastBIM platform.

Symbol Legend

As admin of your organization you can manage the members and licences of your organisation. Learn more about it in this section.

Organizations

Learn more about members, roles and licenses in your organization.

Manage members & licenses

Learn to manage your project with its users and project specific requirements and when and how to use standards.

Projects & Standards

Get an overview of the usage of projects and standards.

Overview

Learn to control the specific access rights of the different project members.

Access management

Catalogs contain the actual information requirements. Learn more about specifications, properties and information levels.

Catalogs

Get to know the specification overview and how to navigate through the specifications

Specification Overview

There are three ways to classify a specification in LastBIM: with classifying properties, IFC mappings and Revit mappings. Learn how to use the different classification types.

Classification

Learn how to define which properties are required for which specification.

Assign Properties to Specifications

In the property overview you can manage all properties in the catalog. Learn here how to work with this view.

Property Overview

Create & Update Properties

Revit mappings enable you to map properties on LastBIM to different parameters in Revit. They can be either mapped to built-in, type or instance parameters.

Property Revit Mappings

Learn to control how the property is supposed to be in the IFC model with the IFC property mappings.

Property IFC Mappings

You can make changes to properties that apply only for a single specification that the property is assigned to. Learn how to work with these overwrites in this article.

Property Overwrites

Assigning domains (DE: Disziplinen) to properties help you to clarify who is responsible for the property - for managing on the platform and delivering in the model. Learn everything about how to use the domains in properties and specifications

Domains in Properties & Specifications

Learn how you can use tags to categorize and filter your catalog in LastBIM!

Import Catalogs

Learn what you can import from your Excel file, how to prepare your Excel file and get guided through the import configuration steps.

Import Catalogs from Excel

This article holds a collection of tips and tricks to adjust your Excel file to be compatible with the Excel import on LastBIM.

Tips for the Excel Import

Integrations help you with translating requirements on the LastBIM platform, to information inside your models. Learn how to attribute and validate your models using our integrations here!

Integrations

Find out how to access our PlugIns in Revit and Desite.

Install our Integrations

Learn how to set up the plugin before diving into the attribution or modelcheck.

Configure your Plugin

Learn how to attribute with the LastBIM integrations.

Attribute with our Plugins

Learn how to check if your model matches the information requirements using LastBIM.

Validate with our Plugins

The attribution in Revit has a few special features. Learn more about the Revit plugin in this article.