BIMIT is Integrated Projects' (IPX) scan-to-BIM product. You upload a registered point cloud of a building, and BIMIT turns it into a Revit model, floor plans, CAD drawings, and a quality report. It's sold as a standardized product with published prices, not as a custom modeling engagement. IPX launched BIMIT 4.0, a new engine, on October 15, 2026. It offers three settings. BIMIT 100 and 200 are fully automated, and BIMIT 300 adds an architect's review. IPX says its starting price is 4¢ per square foot for fully automated models, delivered in hours.
Note on sources and scope: BIMIT is an online ordering and delivery service, and what you get back is a Revit model (.rvt) that you open in Revit as normal. This summary is based on IPX's own BIMIT pages, its help center, developer documentation, and launch posts. I found no independent reviews or hands-on tests, so the speed, cost, and accuracy figures below are IPX's own claims.
What BIMIT Is, and Isn't
IPX's help center describes BIMIT as a fixed-price product that turns a point cloud into a usable building model, built to confirm square footage and equipment counts quickly. IPX is explicit about what it is and isn't:
- It is: A product with standardized, predictable pricing. It's built for fast, on-time delivery and can combine architecture, furniture, and MEP in one model file. It's intended for verifying floor areas, room dimensions, and element counts.
- It isn't: A custom service with a unique quote for every job, work priced by the hour or as a lump sum, or a set of separate files from different consultants.
- Not construction-grade: IPX says BIMIT should not be used as a definitive guide for construction. Point cloud registration from devices such as the Matterport Pro2 or Leica BLK360 has accuracy limits. Licensed professionals should always field-verify.
- No materials or specifications: The model has geometry but no material information or construction details. Non-graphical data is kept generic, so you can customize it yourself.
Key Facts
- Developer: Integrated Projects (IPX), which also offers SCANIT, an on-site 3D laser scanning service. SCANIT crews are on site in 3–5 business days, and BIMIT can model either a SCANIT scan or your own.
- Input: A registered point cloud. The ordering guide lists .e57, .xyz, .las, and .laz files, and a Matterport MatterPak import. Imports from FARO Sphere XG, NavVis, Cintoo, OpenSpace, and Prevu3D are listed as coming soon.
- Output: A Revit model, IFC and DXF files, floor plans as PDF and SVG, and a quality report.
- Revit versions: You pick the Revit version for the model in the order wizard. The pages I found don't list the supported versions.
- Settings: BIMIT 100 (LOD 100) and BIMIT 200 (LOD 200) are fully automated. BIMIT 300 (LOD 300) is architect-assisted.
- Pricing: From 4¢ per square foot for BIMIT 100, 8¢ for BIMIT 200, and from 27¢ for BIMIT 300, with live itemized estimates and volume discounts.
- Track record (IPX figures): More than 6,000 buildings and 47 million square feet digitized, with 95% on-time delivery. A January 2025 IPX article cited 10 million square feet converted, so the volume has grown quickly.
- Delivery and sharing: A secure browser-based platform for ordering, viewing, and sharing, with export to Autodesk Forma.
How Ordering Works
BIMIT is ordered through the IPX platform's order wizard, the same one used for SCANIT scans. The difference is that you upload a point cloud instead of scheduling a site scan. You need to be an organization admin or have order permission.
- Open the wizard: Under Services, click Get verified as-builts, and switch the service type to BIMIT.
- Upload the point cloud: Drag and drop the file or import a MatterPak.
- Set scope and deliverables: Choose the location, building levels, and square footage. Architecture is required and included by default (LOD 300 in the platform's ordering guide: walls, floors, ceilings, doors, windows, and stairs). Add furniture (LOD 200) or MEPF, plus exterior and site scope. Then choose the Revit version, point cloud, and floor plan deliverables.
- Review and sign: Optionally invite teammates, check the summary, and sign the Service Authorization Form.
- Pay the deposit: Pay 50% to confirm the order. The balance is invoiced when the deliverables are completed.
The itemized estimate updates live as you change the order. Every scope, deliverable, and add-on shows its own cost, price per square foot, and timeline. IPX says the estimate you see is the price you pay. Estimates can be emailed and are honored for up to 15 days. Unfinished orders are saved as drafts.
What's New in BIMIT 4.0
BIMIT 4.0, announced October 15, 2026, is described as a "spatial intelligence engine" that reads a scan level by level and builds each element in Revit, wall by wall and room by room. IPX highlights these points:
- Trained on real Revit work: It's built from 9,000 Revit models made to the BIMIT 300 standard, using 184 standard Revit elements from the IPX Element Catalog, IPX's modeling practices, and a 107-point QA/QC checklist. For example, it knows that a wall with few scan points behind it may be glass, and it avoids in-place modeling.
- Finds each level first: It checks the point cloud and identifies each level before it models anything.
- Speed (IPX claim): More than 27 times faster than drafting by hand. A 10,000 sq ft building takes hours at BIMIT 100 and days at BIMIT 300.
- Accuracy (IPX claim): Typical wall offset of 2.3 cm, compared with 5.4 cm for a leading frontier AI model working alone, which IPX describes as less than half the wall error.
- Upgrades over version 3: According to an IPX engineer, machine learning modules were retrained on the 9,000 fully human-annotated buildings with a training pipeline at least twice as large. A frontier AI model is also used to fix misalignments against IPX's own standards, such as room closing and corner joins.
- Quality report with every model: See below.
The Three BIMIT Settings
IPX's pricing page adds an option to fast-track delivery for about 30% more, for roughly 30% faster delivery. Furniture and equipment, MEPF (standard or complex), and facade and site scopes are priced as separate line items. Architecture is always included.
Deliverables and Quality Report
- Revit model: Every wall, door, window, and piece of furniture is a Revit element. The example shown on IPX's site for one office floor lists 172 walls, 50 doors, 21 windows, and 264 pieces of furniture.
- Floor plans for every level: Drawn from the scan as PDF, SVG, and image files.
- CAD drawing of each level: The same plan as a DXF file for CAD software.
- IFC model: For IFC-compatible platforms.
- Quality report: Each element is marked verified, slightly off, or worth a second look. The report also flags anything the engine saw in the scan but left out of the model, so you know what to review before relying on it. IPX says the engine compares the model with the original scan one part at a time.
- Everything in one place: The model, plans, and report can be downloaded from the IPX platform or bimit.ai, viewed in a browser, shared securely, and exported to Autodesk Forma.
Fit for a BIM Coordinator
- Where it helps: Getting an existing-conditions Revit model for renovation, tenant fit-out, space planning, due diligence, and early coordination, without modeling it by hand. The Revit-native output means you can link or open it in your normal workflow.
- Where to be careful: The model is meant for design and planning. It has no material data, element metadata is generic, and IPX warns against using it for construction. Plan to field-verify, and use the quality report to decide what to check first.
- Model standards: The model follows IPX's own element catalog and QA/QC checklist, not your office's families, parameters, or naming. Expect some cleanup or mapping to your BIM standards.
- Budgeting: Because pricing is per square foot, you can estimate cost before ordering. IPX notes that larger projects earn lower rates and that some small items carry fixed minimums.
Open Questions
- When will BIMIT 200 be available? It's marked "coming soon."
- How are revisions or re-runs handled if the quality report shows problem areas? Does the architect's review in BIMIT 300 cover fixes?
- Are the speed and accuracy claims backed by independent testing? The benchmarks come from IPX.
- How does enterprise pricing differ from on-demand pricing, and what do volume tiers look like?
Bottom Line
BIMIT is a scan-to-BIM service, not a Revit add-in. It converts a point cloud you already own, or one from IPX's SCANIT scanning service, into a Revit model, plans, and a quality report. BIMIT 4.0 adds an automated engine and an element-by-element quality report, and the pricing is unusually transparent at 4¢ per square foot for BIMIT 100 and from 27¢ for BIMIT 300, which adds an architect's review. For BIM coordinators, it's a fast way to get an existing-conditions model for renovation, space planning, and early coordination. IPX describes the output as design-grade, not construction-grade, and recommends field verification. The main things to confirm before ordering are Revit version support and how well the model fits your office standards. Starting with a small test order and checking its quality report is a sensible first step.
Sources
- IPX: BIMIT product page
- IPX: Introducing BIMIT 4.0
- IPX: Scan-to-BIM pricing
- IPX Help Center: What is BIMIT?
- IPX Help Center: How to order a BIMIT model
- IPX Help Center: How pricing works
- IPX Help Center: What is Level of Development (LOD)?
- IPX Developers: BIMIT building elements
- IPX Developers: BIMIT definitions
- IPX Developers: BIMIT Engine
- Autodesk App Store: IPX - Easy Scan-to-BIM
- IPX Blog: BIMIT, the simplest way to convert your 3D site scan to BIM
- LinkedIn: IPX on BIMIT 4.0 quality reports
- LinkedIn: IPX on BIMIT 4.0 versus 3.0
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