diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 7f6808f8..44cac6d8 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "/js/bimsurfer"]
-	path = /js/bimsurfer
-	url = https://github.com/opensourceBIM/BIMsurfer.git
 [submodule "js/bimsurfer"]
 	path = js/bimsurfer
 	url = https://github.com/opensourceBIM/BIMsurfer.git
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1f15b75d..89c01eff 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ if you do a plain checkout your missing the bimsurfer package (wich is implement
 to utilize this do the following:
 
     $ cd <Path to bimvie.ws>
+    $ git submodule init
     $ git submodule update
     Cloning into 'js/bimsurfer'...
     remote: Reusing existing pack: 3329, done.
diff --git a/js/bimsurfer b/js/bimsurfer
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..878334bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/js/bimsurfer
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 878334bf3572df475dd20ff53204e89eb57d6be1