topic Re: poor quality layouts in bimx in BIMx

poor quality layouts in bimx

cocoloco — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:10:26 GMT

hii

I’m testing BIMx for presentations for the first time and I think it’s super cool! However, I noticed that the layouts (floor plans, renderings, and elevations) are showing up in poor quality and with off colors in the BIMx model.

I’m on a Mac, so I used the print settings workaround to save the layouts as a PDF, and there the quality and colors were flawless. But when I save it as bimx hyper model, they appear slightly blurred and darker colors.

Since one of the main goals is to use BIMx for presentations, I’m a bit confused about the poor layout quality.

Is there a way to export or save the layouts in higher quality into the BIMx Hyper-model?

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

Oleksandra Vakariuk — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:24:39 GMT

Hi @cocoloco,

Thank you for your feedback!

Please report the issue using the Mail icon on the BIMx Home Screen, and our BIMx support team will check it. In your report, please attach some screenshots of the issue as well as a link to the BIMx model and its source PLA (support can also provide a link to upload your files).

Kind regards,

Oleksandra

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

cocoloco — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:23:56 GMT

Hi Oleksandra, nobody responded to me ... 😕

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

Oleksandra Vakariuk — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:19:28 GMT

Hello! I see that my colleague has responded in the meantime. Thank you for your patience, and apologies for the delay.

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

brzmidobrze — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:43:18 GMT

hello, is there any chance that BIMx will start to use vector files instead of those pixelized exports to PDF?

honestly whole thing becomes unusable as a one-click-solution to transfer files

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

cocoloco — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:03:03 GMT

The issue still persist in archicad 29

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

brzmidobrze — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:42:52 GMT

Hello maybe someone can reply? PDF's are still raster, not vector!

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

brzmidobrze — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 14:16:08 GMT

maybe we deserve any reply about this raster pdf thing?!

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

cocoloco — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:07:46 GMT

Unfortunately I have never heard back about resolving this issue, apparently is in the list to check on it but its been months and no progress.

To further explain: I have no other way to save quality pdf on MacBook in archicad other than through Print to accomplish a good quality (nice colors and not blurred elevations, yeah...). I can't do it through standard way like many of these folks through publish set. Reason is, the quality is extremely poor for elevations, and especially renderings (darker colors etc) so I have to go through file > print instead.

Now, when I save project for BIMX (Publish BIMx Hypermodel) ... the quality and look of the renderings/elevations etc is EXACTLY poor and it has exact look as I would save it through Publish set. (instead the nice quality if I would go through file/print). Which makes me think that the BIMX is opening the file through the standard archicad way and does not account for MacBook users who have to go through unreasonable way of workaround to save file in high quality...

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

Benjamin Dani — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:41:51 GMT

Hello,

Thank you all for your input!

@cocoloco, the issue about darker colors has been fixed in Archicad 29 version 3000. Please confirm colors appear properly in BIMx Hyper-models exported from the latest Archicad.

@cocoloco @brzmidobrze, regarding the resolution of the layouts in Hyper-models, there have been related wishes in the past, however it's not yet entered to our public wishlist. Please feel free post it there, describing the problem and your solution ideas!

Note that one of the biggest benefits of BIMx is opening even very complex and large layouts fast on any, even low-end mobile device. This is why layouts are rasterized during BIMx export with 250dpi, well-balanced for digital use on mobile devices. Larger resolution would increase export and loading time, file size, and memory usage significantly. Another option would be the vectorial export indeed, which would be great. Let's continue this on the wishlist.

Best regards,

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

cocoloco — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:33:14 GMT

Hi Benjamin

thank you! We will likely step into the archicad studio, the issue is fixed there as well? Very happy about it

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

brzmidobrze — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 08:30:58 GMT

@Benjamin Dani I work with DDScad and overall adding additional PDFs may be option. When it comes to interaction with site, especially on small / medium tasks, possibility to giving access to freshest set of drawing is essential. There is always a laptop / PC onsite. So uncompressed PDF's are essential.

In general you advertised in ~2022 Archicad tight workflow and tight integration with BIMx, content from marketing videos is still impossible to achieve. Releasing MEP hyper model without possibility to cut / disable / hide certain walls makes it unusable in practice. There is also no connection between floorplans and models. I can be OK with it but after all even essential feature like batch transferring of PDFs to site is also not that well done. There is a publisher set feature, designed especially to BIMx integration (there is no other option for batch exporting of PDFs!) and it's killed by degrading of quality.

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

brzmidobrze — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:33:21 GMT

still unsolved and layouts in pdf's looks like piece of garbage

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

brzmidobrze — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:28:47 GMT

hello, how you can mark this topic as solved?

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:00:18 GMT

I have reviewed the post marked as a solution and decided to unmark it as it did not offer any solution to the starting post of the topic.

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

ryejuan — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:48:24 GMT

regarding to bimx also, is it required to be signed in to view the files in the app?

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

brzmidobrze — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:10:39 GMT

Thank you.

How this quality can be even satisfying anyone? Smallest font from this title block is finally 2,5mm (scaled down by 0,5 instead by upscaling 1:100 part model).

It's a joke, isn't it?

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

brzmidobrze — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:12:54 GMT

I should wish for something that should be essential in AEC software? Are you kidding or what 🙂

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

JaredBanks — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:27:31 GMT

Today on the BIMx app (android), I've noticed all the layouts are pixelated and illegible. Complete unusable garbage. On macOS and iOS, the same layouts read fine, so it's not a file issue. And the issue exists on both new BIMx files (created today) and old ones (that have been on the phone for 18+ months). I use BIMx regularly on my phone (Pixel 9 pro) and have never seen this issue before.

Re: poor quality layouts in bimx

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:56:37 GMT

Guys, please post a wish on the Wishlist. That is the only way to find out how much support this wish has, and then that can be forwarded to Graphisoft for consideraton:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Wishlist/idb-p/wishlist