The Trimble 0–60 Challenge 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 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, 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.
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!
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!👋