MagiCAD Cloud FAQ

MagiCAD Cloud is Europe’s largest Building Information Modelling (BIM) library for Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) objects. BIM objects on MagiCAD Cloud are verified by the manufacturers and contain accurate dimensions and comprehensive technical information for MEP calculations.

MagiCAD Cloud serves the needs of MEP designers, engineers preparing specifications, contractors, as well as others in the construction industry when designing for BIM.

MagiCAD Cloud subscription is free, with no hidden costs. By subscribing to MagiCAD Cloud, users can browse a full catalogue of more than 1,000,000 BIM objects and view product-specific technical data and 3D previews on the objects. MagiCAD Cloud subscribers can also download a portion of the BIM objects for use in projects. Full access of the MagiCAD Cloud is provided with the purchase of MagiCAD software for MEP. Depending on the manufacturer, the downloadable objects on MagiCAD Cloud are available in Revit RFA format, AutoCAD DXF format, or both.

Subscribing to MagiCAD Cloud is easy and takes only a minute of your time, go to address www.magicad.com/en/cloud/subscribe and fill in your details. You will receive an email from MagiCAD Cloud with a link for completing your registration. Click the link, complete your registration and define a password for your MagiCAD Cloud account. When you have completed the registration, you have instant and free-of-charge access to all of MagiCAD Cloud’s downloadable content on www.magicad.cloud/products

MagiCAD Cloud contains more than 1,000,000 high-quality BIM objects of MEP products from 290 leading manufacturers. BIM objects within the database are complete with accurate dimensions and comprehensive technical data for MEP calculations.

A portion of the BIM objects are downloadable to subscribers free of charge. Depending on the manufacturer, the downloadable objects on MagiCAD Cloud are available in Revit RFA format, AutoCAD DXF format, or both.

Depending on the manufacturer, the downloadable objects on MagiCAD Cloud are available in Revit RFA format, AutoCAD DXF format, or both. Revit RFA files support two (or in some cases, four) of the latest Revit versions.

Very accurate for design purposes. You can be sure that manufacturer-specific objects available through MagiCAD Cloud have been checked for quality by the manufacturer of the physical MEP product or device.

Yes, you can. The objects available through MagiCAD Cloud do not require the use of MagiCAD. MagiCAD Cloud is intended for all MEP designers who use AutoCAD and Revit technologies. A portion of the BIM objects are downloadable to all MagiCAD Cloud subscribers. Depending on the manufacturer, the downloadable objects on MagiCAD Cloud are available in Revit RFA format, AutoCAD DXF format, or both.  However, if you are a MagiCAD for MEP software user, you have access to all of MagiCAD Cloud’s over 1,000,000 data-rich objects through MagiCAD’s Product Browser and MagiCAD Connect. MagiCAD also enables you to make full use of the technical data stored in the BIM objects, enabling advanced calculations and more accurate MEP design.

The 3D preview is very detailed to give an accurate visual impression of how the product are in real life. Once the product is loaded into a project, an optimised version of the same 3D object is created for the purposes of optimising the project size. This optimised version has all the same physical dimensions, characteristics and data as the more visually-detailed preview, but because of the optimisation, the hard drive space required by the object is considerably smaller. This is one of the benefits of MagiCAD, as it provides products with accurate characteristics and data and at the same time ensures that the project does not become too cumbersome in terms of system performance. MagiCAD projects work with optimal performance even when thousands of BIM objects have been added into the projects.

IFC is an excellent, platform-independent data transfer and information exchange format for BIM projects. We are an active partner of BuildingSmart and we have adopted the IFC format into our data export processes already in the early stages of IFC development. However, IFC is intended specifically for data sharing and compatibility, and as such it is not a complete BIM file format for design and calculation purposes.

For the moment, there is no existing BIM design software which could import a product in IFC format. More specifically, Revit is the most commonly used BIM tool for MEP design worldwide and it does not support the import of products in IFC format.