New Features in ALLPLAN 2027 Release Candidate

Status as of July 21, 2026

ALLPLAN 2027 - AI-enabled, Engineering-led BIM authoring and delivery platform for modeling, detailing, collaboration and standards-ready execution

From design to documentation, ALLPLAN 2027 turns BIM data into actionable sustainability insights that help AEC firms minimize waste, strengthen compliance, and future-proof their BIM investments.
ALLPLAN 2027 positions as the AI-enabled, most open Engineering BIM platform, bridging gaps between architects, engineers, and authorities, offering scalable collaboration and exchange workflows.

ALLPLAN AI MAX - AI Enabled platform

Boost efficiency and productivity in daily drafting, modeling or visualization workflows.

IDEATION

  • AI Visualizer: Transforms photos, BIM screenshots, sketches, and text prompts into high-quality design visualizations, with new diffusion models for stronger reasoning and multi-image prompting. It accelerates early design phases, supports co-design workflows, and improves communication with clients by creating compelling imagery in seconds rather than hours.

EVALUATION

  • AI BIM Analyst: Filters, selects, and extracts data from ALLPLAN BIM models based on prompts and project context to generate valuable insights. This replaces hours of manual data filtering and report generation with minutes of prompting, improving decision-making and project health and maximizing the value of ALLPLAN BIM models.

MODELING

  • AI BIM Modeler: Automatically generates simple ALLPLAN BIM models from 2D floor-plans for LCA and cost estimates. This significantly reduces the manual effort of rebuilding designs in BIM, speeds up model-based workflows where Millimeter-accuracy isn´t needed.
  • AI Formula Writer: AI Formula Writer converts plain text descriptions into ready-to-use ALLPLAN formulas, accompanied by clear explanations of the underlying logic. ALLPLAN Formulas help models update automatically with changes or automate the creation of labels. Crafting complex formula expressions or understanding the logic of existing formulas used to be reserved for experts alone and is now available to everyone.

DOCUMENTATION

  • AI Coach: The AI Coach turns every user into a power user. Get fast, accurate answers to all your ALLPLAN /FRILO/SCIA/SDS2 questions. With a strong industry background and access to our entire knowledge-base, the AI Coach is the in-house AEC expert who is available 24/7.
  • AI Drafter: Highlights collisions, and automatically repositions labels, and dimension lines to optimize annotation placement. This turns manual reworking of plans into an automated step, ensuring clean, consistent, and readable layouts for delivery. AI Drafter functionality is now also used for the automatic creation of multiple associative labels placement at once. Labels are positioned optimally relative to the associated element.

Agentic Engineering

  • ALLPLAN MCP Server – Agent Integration, makes it easy to connect ALLPLAN to AI agent platforms and agentic engineering workflows. It helps planners build their own automations between ALLPLAN and other tools, and let LLMs answer natural-language questions by accessing ALLPLAN data and functionality. In practice, you simply add the ALLPLAN MCP Server to your preferred AI agent platform. This gives customers flexibility and freedom of choice, so they can use the AI agent solution that best fits their needs while integrating ALLPLAN with minimal friction.

Digital modeling & General Workflows

New or improved features & workflows

Building Modeling

  • Streamlined Creation & Modification of Door/Window Openings: Introducing unified workflow for creating and modifying door and window openings directly with consistent Property Palette, replacing legacy dialogs and enabling faster, more intuitive modeling. This enhancement streamlines building workflows, supports favorites and full geometric control, and significantly improves usability - accelerating creation tasks up to two times.

Information Modeling & Management

  • Mark Numbering: Automated, unified, and fully configurable mark numbering system that instantly scans, groups, and numbers all building and precast elements by shared properties across mixed types, with tolerance-based grouping, smart prefixes/suffixes, and conflict-free ID assignment for every unique component. This next-generation workflow dramatically accelerates mark creation, reduces overall labeling effort, strengthens cross-discipline collaboration, and keeps all views, schedules, and tender exports continuously accurate through automatic renumbering on every design change.
    One or more mark numbering schemas can now be selected and saved as favorites. Saved schemas can be loaded and reused across different projects.
    Tolerances can now be defined for selected geometric attributes (such as length, area, and volume) that influence mark numbering. This allows small attribute variations to be ignored when they are not significant for mark number calculation.
  • New Information Table - Cloud-enabled Information Management: Introduces a new cloud-enabled Information Table - "Cloud BIM Manager" (Information Palette 2.0) that centralizes inspection, filtering, and editing of BIM data and quantities, giving you a faster, more transparent workflow for information management directly inside ALLPLAN. This modern data layer not only improves your daily QTO and BIM data handling, but also enables us to deliver new information‑management features more quickly and reuse the same capabilities across future ALLPLAN cloud and desktop solutions, so your projects benefit from continuous innovation and users save what matter the most - time.
  • BIM Ready tooltip - object info showing attributes: Extended Tooltop displays selected BIM attributes such as object name, material, and key custom properties directly on hover, alongside existing CAD data, with fully configurable attribute lists per user or project and responsive performance on large models. This enhancement makes it easier to read information directly from the model, reduces the need to open palettes, improves BIM data quality and compliance by surfacing attributes in context, and increases user satisfaction through smoother, more efficient interaction with complex BIM projects.
  • International Calculation Rules (Trade and IQR Attributes): Introduces International Quantity Rules (IQR) and TRADE management that make area, volume, and quantity calculations transparent, configurable, and safely editable via a rule editor and managed TRADE catalogs, complemented by regional starter templates that can be adapted without touching system files. This new system increases trust in results, reduces manual overrides and “file hacking”, empowers international offices to align quantity takeoff with local norms, and positions ALLPLAN as a globally ready BIM platform by combining clear calculation rules with powerful, GUI‑driven customization.

Interoperability & Collaboration Workflows

  • ALLPLAN Cowork: A new cloud-based collaboration service that replaces ALLPLAN Share and lets distributed teams work in one shared project state with safe, reliable synchronization, stable performance, and simple user and project management in the cloud. This modern collaboration layer increases stability and predictability in daily work, cuts IT effort by removing on‑premise servers, speeds up onboarding of internal and external partners, and scales smoothly from small teams to enterprise‑level projects.
  • Unblocked IFC exchange in TeamWork environment: Enabling IFC export in TeamWork (Workgroup or Cowork) scenarios so teams can keep working during export operations and improved safety with IFC import. This reduces collaboration bottlenecks and improves productivity in multi-user project environments.
  • IFC Xref in Sections/Views: Support for displaying IFC external references directly in views and sections, so referenced IFC models appear correctly in derivations, layouts, and print/export without needing full import. This strengthens openBIM coordination by allowing you to perform reinforcement detailing on referenced IFC structures in context with your native ALLPLAN model, improving cross‑discipline alignment and everyday collaboration.
  • Certification IFC4 Import: Delivering superior-quality openBIM collaboration with modern classification and georeferencing import support for IFC4 models. This improves data quality and reduces cleanup effort, cuts coordination and re‑import cycles, and strengthens your qualification and competitiveness for public and openBIM tender projects.
  • Centralized coordination of Georeference settings: Introduces centralized coordination of georeference settings, bringing all key geo information into a single, user‑friendly Property Palette so users can clearly define and control project coordinates with Base point, Survey point and also ALLPLAN origin. Completely refined IFC workflow that elevates IFC import to the next-level and more specialized DWG/DGN/DXF export options. This makes georeferencing workflows smoother and more understandable, improves data precision and alignment with other applications, and enables georeferenced PDF export so authorities and project stakeholders can easily inspect a project’s location and coordinate context directly in compatible viewers.

General

  • Improved Associative Text Leaders: Introduces automatic text leaders for associative labels in Views/Sections, creating and maintaining leaders together with labels that stay connected as geometry changes, while allowing you to choose whether they point to the centroid, nearest point, or a custom location. This enhancement significantly reduces manual work for adding and recreating leaders after updates, making annotation workflows faster, cleaner, and more reliable in everyday documentation.
  • Graphic Override - Layout element creation: Introduces per-element Graphic Overrides on layouts, enabling to assign, preview, and output distinct Graphic Override combinations for each layout element directly in the Property Palette, including a dedicated “Graphic Override” property that replaces the former property dialog. This gives planners flexible presentation control on a single sheet, avoids duplicated or modified drawings just for styling, reduces file clutter, and continues the uniform transition to the modern Property Palette, while ensuring that layout-level overrides do not affect global model views and that exports match on-screen previews exactly.
  • Dynamic Contours for General 3D Objects: Introduces dynamic, view‑dependent contours for general 3D objects, delivering precise contour display and snapping for complex curved geometries such as edited steel profiles and bridge structures across all standard viewports. This enhancement extends contour and snap support beyond simple primitives to merged and edited B‑Rep shapes, making modeling, detailing, and dimensioning of advanced 3D forms more accurate and intuitive.
  • Variable Representation of Objects in horizontal Views/Sections: Adds more control over how objects (Smartsymbols, PythonParts, SmartParts) appear (floorplan representation) in horizontal views and sections. This helps customers produce clearer, standards-aligned documentation while reducing manual drawing rework.
  • Toolscape UI Configuration: What if ALLPLAN adapted to the way you work — instead of you adapting to it? That's the idea behind Toolscape Configuration. Toolscape is our vision for a fully customizable and unified workspace in ALLPLAN. Built on years of user feedback, it brings together the best of all previous UI configurations into one flexible successor — with toolkits you can dock anywhere, favorites in your own order, global search, and a structure that finally follows real workflows. ALLPLAN 2027 — Toolscape arrives as a new configuration option, with a sharp focus on Toolboard — the heart of the Toolscape experience. We'll be listening closely, gathering feedback, and refining every detail to further improve this experience and bring even more flexibility.
  • Improved product Quality and Stability: Focuses on product quality improvements to reduce instability and frequent user pain points. Customers benefit from a more reliable day-to-day experience with fewer interruptions and less risk of lost work.
  • Opening layers support: Opening layers can now be viewed and edited directly in both the Object Palette and the Information Palette (Cloud BIM Manager).
  • The attributes 'Reference ID' and 'Reference Name' are now available as calculated attributes.
  • bSDD class import enhanced: A new attribute 'bSDD URI' is automatically populated to store the class URI value.

Engineering (Rebar Detailing) Workflows

New or Improved features & workflows

  • Smarter Reinforcement Modification and Default Attributes for Instant BIM Workflows: Enhanced rebar detailing with 13 new modification palettes (bar placements, bar groups, mesh placement, bar & mesh labels) covering all steps of the reinforcement workflow and new, default‑attribute–driven placement workflows for faster, more consistent rebar setup. These improvements drastically reduce repetitive work, workaround steps, and waiting times, making reinforcement easier to modify, report, and export so users can save thousands of clicks per day and focus on higher‑value tasks. In addition, default reinforcement attributes are assigned automatically, so essential BIM information is available immediately, so filter, analyze, and coordinate reinforcement information is faster without extra manual setup.
  • Smarter Beam and Wall Automated Reinforcement - More Reliable, More Flexible, More Powerful: Delivers automated reinforcement improvements with a modernized Automated Beam Reinforcement, extended with smarter support recognition, anchorage logic, overlap handling, and a richer set of stirrup and bar options. In addition, 3D bodies can now be used as inputs for Automated Wall Reinforcement, enabling 3D element‑based wall detailing workflows that further increase compliance with typical layouts and make reinforcement across beams and walls more flexible and efficient for everyday projects.
  • Reinforcement AI Drafter: Automates the placement of rebar labels to reduce manual annotation work in reinforcement drawings. This improves labeling workflows and saves significant time in drawing preparation.
  • Handling of Group Clashes: In complex reinforcement models, many individual clashes can quickly become difficult to understand and slow down coordination. With the new Group Clash functionality, it is much easier to maintain a clear overview and make informed adjustments.

Construction Workflows

New or Improved features & Workflows

  • Construction Stages: Introduces integrated tools to simulate construction phases within a coordinated workflow, enabling more accurate representation of build sequences, strengthening planning reliability, and supporting the management of complex site conditions within a single model.
  • Borehole input: Following the ALLPLAN and DC-Software merger, Version 2027 will also deliver a fully integrated soil layer workflow that lets users turn borehole input into calculated soil layers directly within ALLPLAN’s BIM environment, eliminating the need to switch applications or maintain a local DC-Integra installation.

Infrastructure Workflows

New features & workflows ALLPLAN Civil

  • Parametric grid of any shape - parametric array: Introduces a Parametric Grid for civil structures, letting you place and adjust repetitive elements—such as cross-frames, lamp posts, truss components, or columns—along reference lines and axes with just a few parameters. This new workflow stores all input data for later editing, supports both “by number of elements” and “by spacing” distributions, and makes it easy to change step sizes or stationing without deleting and recreating objects, delivering precise, consistent, and highly efficient positioning.

New features & workflows ALLPLAN Road and DTM

  • Combine two DTMs: Two digital terrain models can now be combined more efficiently while preserving important detail, saving time on terrain preparation and get a stronger foundation for accurate downstream design work.
  • Advanced 3D Cross-Section Detailing: Enhances 3D cross-section detailing with more flexible reference handling and control points. This allows to model more complex road situations accurately and maintain better consistency between design intent and resulting geometry.
  • Vertical Signalization: Adds more automated vertical signalization handling with geometry-aware placement and orientation. This improves the accuracy of road signage design and reduces manual adjustments when the alignment changes.

Third Party Developer Focus

New or Improved Python API Capabilities

  • PythonPart Versioning: PythonPart versioning gives customers more control when updating custom scripted objects. This reduces the risk of unwanted model changes and helps keep projects stable over time.
  • ALLPLAN & project related Python API Events: Event-based Python API triggers can now automate actions at key ALLPLAN and project moments. Customers can reduce manual effort, support quality checks automatically, and create smarter background workflows.
  • Customize PythonPart context menu: PythonPart context menus can now be customized so the most relevant actions are easier to access. Customers get a smoother workflow, quicker access to tools, and a better experience when working with custom objects.
  • Support dimension objects for generating 2D drawing with Python API: Dimension objects can now be created and handled through the Python API for automated 2D drawing generation. This helps customers reduce repetitive drafting work and build faster, more scalable documentation workflows.

CLOUD Focus

Bimplus

New or Improved features & workflows ALLPLAN Bimplus

  • BCF 3.0: Enabling full import and export of BCF version 3.0 for improved issue exchange and interoperability.
  • Cropping in overlay manager: Precisely define and focus on a specific area of the layout/drawing to improve clarity and visualization.
  • Orthographic View: Better coordination of 2D Overlays and 3D models. The view is also stored in the scenes of Issue Manager and Project Slideshows and is considered in BCF workflows.
  • IFC file to model: Seamless transfer of selected IFC files from the Document Management section to the Models section.
  • Bluebeam integration: Support for German servers, allowing users to choose between the US and German Bluebeam Studio servers.

New or Improved features & workflows ALLPLAN Bimplus Add-Ons

  • MS Excel application: Now featuring Dynamic View for displaying and working with only selected objects in the Excel table as well as automatic Base Quantity Calculation for calculating missing quantities of building elements during import.
  • MS Excel SAF application: Optimizations and compatibility improvements.

New or Improved features & workflows ALLPLAN Model Viewer

  • Model Viewer now also supports the formats glTF, GLB, OBJ files in addition to IFC.

Connect

New or Improved features & workflows

  • Project Space: Distributing layout files via ALLPLAN Connect directly from ALLPLAN.