What was Hot on Revit Add-ons in May 2019

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews. Presently though, we're playing catch up with posts to cover February through May, 2019.

In May 2019 we published 56 posts. For our efforts, we received 60,033 pageviews.

Warning Manager topped the list for the month. Other new add-in related posts that made our shortlist were Smart Unhide Elements at #2, Place Views on Sheets at #4, Replicate Legend/View on Sheets at #6, glTF Exporter at #7, and Interior Designer at #8.

What was Hot on Revit Add-ons in April 2019

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews. Presently though, we're playing catch up with posts to cover February through May, 2019.

In April 2019 we published 14 posts. For our efforts, we received 55,499 pageviews.

Our post explaining why we posted so infrequently in March and April topped our shortlist for the month.

What was Hot on Revit Add-ons in March 2019

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews. Presently though, we're playing catch up with posts to cover February through May, 2019.

In March 2019 we published 20 posts. For our efforts, we received 60,702 pageviews.

By a comfortable margin, PropertyWizard topped our shortlist for the month. Other posts related to new add-ins that made the list were Express Family Layout and S.T.A. DATA at #2 and 4 respectively.

What was Hot on Revit Add-ons in February 2019

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews. Presently though, we're playing catch up with posts to cover February to May, 2019.

In February 2019 we published 89 posts. For our efforts, we received 65,507 pageviews.

The free Naviate Rebar Extension topped our shortlist for the month, and it wasn't even close.

What’s Hot in Revit Add-ons for February 2019

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

In January 2019 we published 88 posts, slightly below our goal of 3 per day (for 93 total).

For the first time, we broke the 70,000 pageviews per month barrier, with 72,994 pageviews.

For our shortlist, this month we included posts that received at least 400 pageviews.

Schedule to Excel topped our list. It was the only new add-in related post that charted.

Rarely do Navisworks-related articles make our shortlist, but, this month, the IrisVR-related post Navisworks to Google Cardboard: How to View Clashes in VR came in at #2.

What’s Hot in Revit Add-ons for January 2019

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

In December 2018, we published 43 posts and received 60,840 pageviews.

Our second post in our bi-annual series on 5-star rated add-ins on the Autodesk App Store tops our list for the month. Other original Revit Add-ons content to chart are our What's Hot article from last month at #2, our announcement of our end-of-year advertising sale, which, coincidentally, ends today, at #4, our week-that-was article for Dec 3-9 at #5, and our week-that-was article for Nov 19 - Dec 2 at #10. These five articles make up a larger percentage of our list than usual.

The #3 post is a Dynamo-related one, Free Unjoin All Framing Dynamo Scripts from StrucSoft Solutions.

Newly published add-in related posts to chart are rvt2VR at #6, LODmanager at #7, SOFiSTiK Analysis + Design at #8, and Auto Numbering at #9.

The sole update-related post that made the list is BIM Repeat Remapper v1.1 at #11.

What’s Hot in Revit Add-ons for December 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

In November 2018, we published 47 posts and received 62,872 pageviews, our second highest tally to date.

Our post on Lumion 9 topped our list for the month. The #2 post was also update-related, Autodesk BIM Interoperability Tools for Revit v7.

Posts related to new products were Guardian at #3, SheetLink at #4, ENGyn, a rare Navisworks-related charting post, at #5, BCF Export, a rare BIM 360-related charting post, at #6, LINKo7 (fittingly enough) at #7, and Drawing List Manager at #8.

Rounding out our list for the month was our thank you to our readers and advertisers.

What’s Hot in Revit Add-ons for November 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

In October 2018, we published 44 posts and received 61,819 pageviews, our 3rd highest tally to date.

The new HotGear Project - Sheet Manager topped our list for the month. Other new add-ins that made the shortlist were Unity Viewer for Autodesk® Revit® at #5, BIM-M Content Pack Integrated with BIM List Browser at #7, and Curtain Walls & Panels at #8.

Updates that made the cut were Family Editor Interface v2.0 at #2, IFC Model Exchange with ARCHICAD for Revit 2019 at #3, LTM® - Landscape Terrain Modeller v3.0 at #4, and Bonus Tools v20.18.09.26 at #6.

What’s Hot in Revit Add-ons for October 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

In September 2018, we published 61 posts and received 55,295 pageviews.

Our post about the Autodesk-authored Revit add-ins that are still missing for the 2019 version topped the list for the month at #1. Other Revit Add-ons originated posts that made the list were our outsized roundup of Revit-related add-ins on the Autodesk App Store for July 16 to September 9 at #5, and our "What's Hot" article for September at #8.

Posts about new add-ins that made the list were PF Printer PDF at #2, NameConvention at #3, Grid Manager at #4, Auto Elevation By RoomSpace at #6, CSI Link Plus at #9, and EZ-Iso at #10.

A single update made the list, Master Purger v2.0 at #7.

What’s Hot in Revit Add-ons for September 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

We published just 12 posts in August 2018, well below our minimum target of an average of 1/day (having one's 8 y.o. twin sons for summer vacation will do that to a fella). We still received a very respectable 56,467 pageviews for the month.

GeoToCAD, for interoperability between Revit and ArcGIS, topped our list for the month. CCupgrader, for upgrading multiple Revit files, came in at #2. The free Construction Material Library for the European Union charted at #3. Lastly, the Revit Add-ons inspired SpankMyRevit landed at #4.

Here's the list of this month's shortlisted posts, along with the add-in/content originators:

1. Free GeoToCAD™ for Autodesk® Revit® – Bi-Directional Connection with ArcGIS® from AMC Bridge
2. CCupgrader – The Self-Proclaimed "Fastest Way of Upgrading Multiple Files" from  cadconsulting
3. Free Construction Material Library for EU from FlowBIM
4. Free SpankMyRevit! For Real this Time! (Updated) from Bird Tools

Thanks and congratulations to all the content originators!

What’s Hot in Revit Add-ons for August 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we take a look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

We published 33 posts in July 2018, and received 50,882 pageviews.

From the 33 posts, we chose to include the top 10 in this month's shortlist. Ordinarily, we wouldn't include such a high percentage, but there was little separation between the #3-10 posts.

The new add-in Formwork for Concrete Structures topped the list. Other new add-ins that charted were Bird Tools' Tag Alignment Tool (#2), BIM BOQ Quantifier (#3), EnR3D Generation (#5), and Avoid Clashed (#10).

Updates that charted this month were Transfer Single v1.4.0 (#6), IFC 2019 (#7), and Dimensions by Line v1.5.0.0 (#9).

Revit Add-ons original content that charted were our roundup of the Autodesk App Store for Jun 18 - July 15 (#4), and July's What's Hot article (#8).

What's Hot in Revit Add-ons for July 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we take a look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

We published 19 posts in June 2018, a down month for us, and received 44,919 pageviews.

Our roundup of 5-star rated add-ins on the Autodesk App Store seemed to rate well with readers as it came in at #1. Landscape Terrain Modeler, Align v1.4.0, and Section View Aligner came in at #2, 3, and 5 respectively. Our roundup of new and updated add-ins on the Autodesk App Store from June 22 also charted, at #4.

What's Hot in Revit Add-ons for June 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we take a look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

We published 41 posts in May 2018, and received 59,377 pageviews.

Uncharacteristically, two of our regular weekly articles made the cut this month, the May 1st edition of New and Updated Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store at #1 and the May 2nd edition of The Week that was in Revit Add-ons at #5. This latter article was the last of the series that we've published so far as your faithful editor has been struggling with some health issues of late. Hopefully we'll get back on track soon.

Our post about the Revit 2019 releases of the Omnia Revit Scope Box add-ins charted at #2. At #3 was our Product Roundup of free add-ins from CADD Microsystems. This was the first product roundup that we'd done in quite some time. We'll try to get more in the pipeline soon.

Our posts about Renumber Elements, Revizto v4.7, and SPIT i-BIM rounded out the month at #4, 6, and 7 respectively.

What's Hot in Revit Add-ons for May 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we take a look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

We published 68 posts in April 2018, and received 59,148 pageviews.

Revit 2019 was released in April, and along with it came our most popular recurring post, Revit Product Enhancements from Autodesk. Predictably, it was our most popular new post of the month, by far. A couple other Revit 2019 related posts also made the cut, the new Infraworks to Revit Interoperability Add-in from Autodesk at #3 and Roundup – Updated Revit Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store, Special Revit 2019 Supplemental Edition at #6.

Two of our April Fools prank posts also made the cut, SpankMyRevit at #2 and Building Designer for Autodesk® Revit® at #7. In  response, SpankMyRevit as a real app is currently under development. Stay tuned!

The release of Dynamo v2.0 was big news too, and our related post charted at #4.

What's Hot in Revit Add-ons for April 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we take a look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

We published 41 posts in March 2018, and received 52,570 pageviews.

News about the free Sheet Copy v1.2 topped our leaderboard this month. As usual, Dynamo-related posts proved popular as they took the #2 and 3 spots. We rarely see add-ins related to products other than Revit or Dynamo chart on our leaderboard but, this month, a Navisworks add-in came in at #6.

Here's the list of this month's shortlisted posts, along with the add-in/content originators:

1. Free Sheet Copy v1.2.0.0 from ModPlus
2. Test Fit – Dynamic Floor Plans with Dynamo from Clifton Harness of testfit.io
3. Insert Multiple Shared Parameters with Dynamo with Interactive User Input from Ernesto Pellegrino
4. Lumion v8.3 with Improved LiveSync for Revit + LiveSync for SketchUp from Act-3D B.V.
5. SimLab GLTF Exporter for Autodesk Revit from Simlab Soft
6. Free BIMSens v1.28 – Read and Write Between Navisworks and External Data Sources from The Striped Horse

Thanks and congratulations to all the content originators!

What's Hot in Revit Add-ons for March 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we take a look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

We published 32 posts in February 2018 – that's down near our minimum target of an average of at least one per day – and received 46,404 pageviews.

As we expected, our interview with Flux CEO Jamie Roche about the sad news that they are discontinuing their current platform and apps received the most pageviews. Two frequent contributors to the Autodesk App Store also scored this month, BIM SOFT SOLUTIONS at #2 and BIMODEL at #5. Two Dynamo-related posts made our shortlist, at #3 and #6, including one from Architect Machines, which had content chart on our shortlist for the third month in a row. A Navisworks add-in also charted, at #4, a rarity here on Revit Add-ons. Also, two of the six charting posts related to MEP.

What's Hot in Revit Add-ons for February 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we take a look back at the preceding month to see which posts published during the month received the most pageviews.

We published 58 posts in January 2018, and received 53,708 pageviews for our efforts.

In our previous What's Hot article, Ryan Cameron of Architect Machines had the top two performing posts with Dynamo Templates and Cost Analysis Dynamo Script, respectively. This time, Ryan again scored the top spot with Dynamo Program Checker QA Review, as well as placing two others in the top 10, Dynamo Building Program Generator and Using Dynamo to Create Room Length and Width Parameters w/Tags, at #6 and 7 respectively. Impressive! We've got to get more of his stuff up this month so his work can go for the three-peat... 😊

Who doesn't like free stuff? (The US government for one, but that's another story...). Free add-ins owned the #2, 3, 4 and 9 spots with Purge CAD, Autodesk Enhanced DWG Exporter for Revit, CTB Link v1.1.0, and rvt2skp v2.0 respectively.

What's Hot in Revit Add-ons for January 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we take a look back at the preceding month to see which posts published during the month received the most pageviews.

We published 45 posts in December 2017, and received 47,554 pageviews for our efforts.

With the top four most viewed posts, Dynamo ruled the month. A special shout out to Ryan Cameron of Architect Machines, who held the top two spots. Great job Ryan!

Here are links for the posts that made the cut, along with the originators:

1. Dynamo Templates by Ryan Cameron of Architect Machines
2. Cost Analysis Dynamo Script by Ryan Cameron of Architect Machines
3. Batch Add Shared Parameters From a Text File with Dynamo by Mostafa El Ayoubi of  DATA|SHAPES
4. Handling Revit Warnings with Dynamo by Lawrence Hooker of Revit Structure
5. Dim Offset – Automatically Offset Dimension Text that Overlaps Extension Lines from ModPlus
6. Free CTB Link – Transform CAD Imports to Look Like They'd Plot from AutoCAD from Efficient BIM
7. BIM Track™ v1.14.0 for Revit and Navisworks from Virtual construction and technology BIM One Inc.

Congratulations and thanks to all the content originators!

What's Hot in Revit Add-ons for November 2017

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we take a look back at the preceding month to see which posts published during that month received the most pageviews. We took a break from this series in October but return with vigor for November.

We published 106 posts in November 2017, the fifth month we've topped 100 posts per month in 2017, and received 59,000 pageviews for our efforts.

Last month, we covered Autodesk BIM 360 add-ins for the first time and spent a fair amount of time posting about them. As a result, half the posts that made the cut were related to BIM 360, including four of the top five, and the most viewed post of the month.

What's Hot in Revit Add-ons for September 2017

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we take a look back at the preceding month to see which posts published during that month received the most pageviews.

We published 112 posts in August 2017 and received 65,482 pageviews for our efforts, our highest monthly total to date.

We spent a lot of the month posting about AGACAD's numerous products, and our AGACAD product roundup received the most pageviews for the month.

Here's the full list of posts that charted on What's Hot for the month:

1. Product Roundup – AGACAD
2. Place Structural Framing on Complex Surfaces in Revit Using Dynamo from Marcello Sgambelluri
3. Poll: For What Other Products Should Revit Add-ons Cover Add-in Applications?
4. bimsync
5. Sheet Copy from ModPlus
6. Revit Holoview
7. Smart Details from AGACAD
8. DEWALT HangerWorks from GTP Services

Congratulations to all the add-on originators!