# From SketchUp to BIM: How Qonic tackled the Trimble 0–60 Challenge

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**Created:** [October 6, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.qonic.com/t/from-sketchup-to-bim-how-qonic-tackled-the-trimble-0-60-challenge/229 "2025-10-06T13:40:51Z")\
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# **From SketchUp to BIM: How Qonic tackled the Trimble 0–60 Challenge**

The [Trimble 0–60 Challenge](https://www.linkedin.com/company/0-60/posts/) is all about acceleration: taking an idea and turning it into a working innovation in just 60 days.

For Qonic, that meant focusing on one of the biggest friction points in today’s AEC workflows: the handover from early design to construction-ready BIM.

 ![The problem of Connected Design](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/qonic/original/1X/39ebbfff2d326efd088ebf00e75fa83a28dd1ada.png)

## **The challenge**

Design teams love tools like **SketchUp** for their speed and freedom. They’re perfect for exploring form and intent.

But when those models move downstream, often via **Trimble Connect** , they rarely contain the structured data needed to make them buildable.

That means there’s no reliable information for quantities, classifications, or construction details, it’s just geometry. So when projects move from concept to execution, teams are forced to rebuild, reattach and recheck everything.

So we asked ourselves:

> **What if you could give your SketchUp model BIM superpowers: structure, IFC data, and collaboration without redrawing ?**

You could already import SketchUp models into Qonic, _[read how here](https://community.qonic.com/t/turn-your-sketchup-model-into-bim-in-minutes/220)_, but with the Trimble 0–60 Challenge, we’ve gone further.

## **The solution**

As part of the Trimble 0–60 Challenge, we developed a workflow that connects SketchUp directly to **Qonic’s cloud-based BIM platform** through **Trimble Connect**.

This connection allows designers and contractors to take a SketchUp model and turn it into **construction-ready BIM.**

Qonic automatically adds structure and enriches elements with IFC data. This enables:

- Easy **Quantity take-offs**

- **Construction drawing generation** directly from the model

- **Design coordination and clash detection**

- **4D planning and data-linked scheduling**

In short: **use what’s already there and make it work better.**

[![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/qonic/original/1X/2771be916b179bc22f7a1316afd94e5a90ddbea5.jpeg "From Sketchup to BIM part 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v08mPBBVv4)

## **The impact**

What makes this workflow powerful is its simplicity.

Instead of exporting, translating and cleaning up data across tools, Qonic keeps everything synchronised.

Every edit, every parameter, every connected model stays in one environment accessible through the browser, without hardware limits or manually rework.

## **Why it matters**

BIM was meant to unite design and construction, but too often it divides them.

By connecting SketchUp’s speed with Qonic’s precision, we’re bridging that gap and enabling real collaboration between concept and execution.

## **Looking ahead**

Being **selected as a finalist for the Trimble 0–60 Challenge** was an incredible experience to collaborate, learn and see how far openBIM can really go.

We’re proud of what we built: making design data usable from day one and helping teams move from concept to construction without starting over.

We’re heading to **Las Vegas** for [Trimble Dimensions 2025](https://www.trimble.com/nl-nl/our-company/events/dimensions/overview) **!**  
Visit us at our booth from **November 10–12** and don’t miss our live session on **Tuesday, November 11** , during the **Trimble 0–60 Challenge Demo Day**.

If you’re there, come say hi! 👋