Bueno Labs · Redmine plugins · Built in a metalworking plant
Open the CAD file inside the Redmine issue.
A CAD 2D/3D viewer that opens a DWG drawing, a STEP model or a laser scan inside the issue itself — with no per-seat proprietary licence, no viewer to install, no file to download. It leads a family of Redmine plugins written on the shop floor: free Community editions, paid Pro editions, the source always included.
Three ways to work together
What Bueno Labs does
Ready-made plugins — a free Community edition and a paid Pro one —, plugins written from scratch for what you do, and help keeping an existing Redmine alive across upgrades. All of it in Ruby, all of it with the source in your hands.
Plugins: Community and Pro
Born on the shop floor. The Community edition is free and useful on its own; Pro adds what costs effort to support.
Free today: CAD 2D/3D viewer, time punch and notification bridge. Paid: health & safety. Being built: quality, HR and meeting minutes. Compatibility being validated — target matrix Redmine 6.1.6 and 7.0.3.
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Custom development
A plugin shaped around your process instead of a process shaped around a tool.
Request portals with approval, scored queues, automatic task trees, WIP-limited kanban, planned-versus-actual charts, load plans. Built on your real issues, not on a parallel database, and with no Redmine core files edited.
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Support & migration
Redmine 7.0 broke plugins across the board. Getting yours back is a job, not a gamble.
Installation, upgrade planning and porting of plugins that stopped loading on Rails 8 and Ruby 4.0 — including plugins written by someone else, as long as you have the source.
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Nº BL-101 · redmine_3dviewer · early access
CAD files open where the work already happens
In a survey of all 868 plugins in the official Redmine directory (August 2026), searching for CAD, STEP, STL, IGES, DWG, DXF, 3D or BIM returned nothing — free or paid. This CAD 2D/3D viewer opens drawings, 3D models, point clouds and 3D PDF on the issue page itself, and its Community edition will be free. Early access — join the list to follow the first public release.
DWG and DXF, with their sheets
Model and every layout as tabs, viewports to scale, layers, blocks, hatches, dimensions and text — read by the plugin's own engine.
Measure and search
Distance with snap to the geometry, text search across the drawing and an entity card on click.
3D models
STEP, IGES, IFC and the native files of the major mechanical CAD packages, with section cuts, 3D measuring and the assembly tree.
Point clouds and 3D PDF
Laser scans and 3D PDF in the same viewer and with the same controls.
Thumbnails in the issue
Drawings show the preview they already carry in the attachments block, so a list of files stops being a list of file names.
Nothing leaves the server
Its own engine, no CDN and no external request — checked with the network cable pulled.
Redmine's permissions
It respects the attachment permissions Redmine already enforces. Nobody sees a file they could not already see.
Community free, Pro US$ 9.90
Community views DXF and the open 3D formats at no cost. Pro opens everything above, with measuring and dimensions — compare.
Catalogue
Every plugin, and where it stands
Each plugin is a sheet with its own number. Free ones are free for good; paid ones come with the source and twelve months of updates.
CAD Viewer
Drawings, 3D models, point clouds and 3D PDF inside the issue.
Free + Pro
Time Punch
A punch clock on every page; hours that log themselves.
Free
Notify Bridge
Assignments, updates and approvals in one notification bell.
Free
Health & Safety
Occupational health and safety records, auditable inside Redmine.
Paid · €399
Quality
Non-conformities, corrective actions, audits and deadlines on ISO 9001 lines.
Community + Pro
HR / Payroll
Personnel records, absences, documents and payroll-facing routines.
Community + Pro
Meeting Minutes
Minutes from audio with a fully local AI, and the attendees' hours logged.
Community + Pro
Get them
Download free, or buy and download for a year
Downloads
Community editions: no account, no form.
Download, check the SHA-256 published next to the file, install. Every package carries readable source and a licence file.
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Store
Pro and paid editions, priced per Redmine instance.
A perpetual licence for the version delivered, twelve months of updates and downloads in the customer area, renewal at one third. No per-user fee.
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Who signs it
Built by someone who lives the problem
Bueno Labs is the workshop of Philipe Bueno, a manufacturing engineer with more than 18 years in the metalworking industry in Brazil. Not an agency that learns your process from a briefing — someone who spent a career inside it: welded joints, engineering backlogs, time entries nobody logged, and drawings lost in a network folder.
Every plugin here started as one of those problems. The CAD 2D/3D viewer exists because engineers were downloading STEP files to a workstation just to check which part a request was about. The time punch exists because hours were being reconstructed from memory at the end of the week. The health & safety module exists because occupational medicine records were living in folders nobody could audit. Each one was written for daily use first and polished for release afterwards.
They were written for daily use in industry before anyone thought of selling them. That path — from a real problem to software in production — is what Bueno Labs offers.
Source included, always
A Redmine plugin is a derivative work: the Ruby code is GPL v2 by law, and Bueno Labs treats that as a feature. No obfuscated files, no proprietary blobs, no lock-in.
Install without drama
No forced migrations, no exotic gems, no Redmine core files edited. A plugin that is hard to install is a plugin that gets removed at the next upgrade.
Production, not prototype
Everything here is written for a shift change, a slow network and a heavy attachment first — and for a sales demo never.
Also on the bench
Other platforms
Two systems outside the Redmine world, built with the same rules: open stack, data on your own network, no subscription.
Nexo PLM
Product lifecycle management in Python: multilevel BOM, change control, a drawing vault and a 3D viewer — running fully offline on your own intranet.
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Mover Saúde
A multidisciplinary health platform: records, scheduling and a patient portal, with each specialty seeing only what belongs to it.
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Contact
Tell me what your Redmine is missing
A plugin that broke on 7.0, a process that lives in a spreadsheet file, or a CAD file nobody can open without a workstation. The plugins are in early access: write and I will put you on the list for the first public release. I answer in English or Portuguese.