Your first sketch should not die in a file-format cul-de-sac.

Twenty-five years after BIM promised to connect every dot, most project teams still redraw the same building multiple times. First to explore ideas, then to make it “Revit-Ready”, and then progressively for each analysis that follows.

Project teams are compelled to restart rather than evolve their designs, burning not just hours but breaking the creative momentum that drives great architecture. Each handoff scatters the very data BIM was meant to unify.

Snaptrude was built so you could evolve a design instead of restarting it.

The Journey to BIM Mode

Over the past six weeks, we've been rolling out what we call the "continuous runway" - four interconnected modes that keep your design, data, and narrative synchronized:

Program Mode gives you a live requirements table that talks directly to your 3D model. Change the program, watch the building respond.

Design Mode lets freehand creativity and parametric precision share one canvas. Sketch like you think, build like you mean it.

Present Mode keeps client-ready visuals in lockstep with design changes. No more "that drawing is from last Tuesday's iteration."

Today, we add the final piece: BIM Mode turns yesterday's massing study into walls, slabs, doors, using your own Revit families all inside the same browser tab where your ideas began.

The changes we want for you

Instead of starting over, you level up. Click into BIM Mode and watch masses become full assemblies. Walls automatically know their layer compositions. Slabs understand their overhangs. Rooms inherit the program data that birthed them. Your concept intent and building data live in one model, not two.

Instead of manual coordination, you get parametric flow. Drag a wall in plan, quantities, areas, and presentation drawings update instantly. Hours of coordination become seconds of confidence.

Instead of stale template libraries, you get living assets. Drop proven room layouts or FF&E sets into any project. Manage parameters once, reuse everywhere. Import standard or custom Revit families and keep them perfectly synchronized.

Instead of fractured files, you get true collaboration. Push your model to Revit for detailing, pull changes back the same afternoon, and track every modification in Snaptrude's changelogs.

Instead of presentation lag, you get real-time alignment. The plan you mark up with a client is the exact drawing your team dimensions later. Stakeholders always see the latest design, not yesterday's export.

Why This Matters Now

Architecture faces an acceleration problem. Budgets shift faster, codes evolve quicker, clients rethink sooner. In traditional workflows, each pivot demands an export, a redraw, and a prayer that the numbers still match.

Inside Snaptrude, the model, the data, and the story stay fused. When one changes, everything changes with it. This is the promise BIM once made, now delivered.

But this isn't just about efficiency—it's about preserving the thread of creative intention from first sketch to final detail. The best buildings emerge from ideas that are allowed to evolve, not restart.

What Happens Next

BIM Mode completes the foundation for Snaptrude v3, launching in just a few weeks. We're not just adding another tool, we're completing a new way of practicing architecture.

For existing customers and Early Access users: new BIM capabilities will appear in your workspace over the next few weeks. No migration, no new learning curve - just deeper capability in the same place you're already designing.

For everyone else: Join thousands of architects on our waitlist at snaptrude.com. We're onboarding new users thoughtfully to ensure everyone gets the support they deserve.

A Personal Note

Three years ago, we started Snaptrude because we believed architecture deserved tools as fluid as architectural thinking. Not software that forces you to think like a computer, but technology that amplifies how you already work.

Everything we've built from live program tables to parametric sketching to now, full BIM capability, stems from one conviction: the distance between idea and reality should be measured in moments, not months.

Thank you for proving, project after project, that when architects have the right tools, they don't just build better buildings, they reimagine what's possible.

The future of architectural practice isn't about working harder. It's about tools that finally match the speed of imagination.

See you in the product!

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