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Thursday, December 27, 2018

Critical Mass – 5-Star Rated Add-ins* on the Autodesk App Store for End-of-Year 2018, Now Expanded!

Peer reviews can help one to decide on apps to use or purchase. Unfortunately, reviews on the Autodesk App Store can be hard to come by. Apps that have thousand of downloads can have just a few reviews. Furthermore, the App Store's sort-by-rating function doesn't take the number of reviews into account.

Listed below for your convenience are the 5-star rated Revit-related add-ins on the App Store with at least four reviews, sorted by number of reviews, highest to lowest. Add-ins are also separated between free and paid.

This is our second biannual listing. This time out, we've added add-ins for the other applications on the App Store that we cover: Navisworks, BIM 360, Advance Steel, and Robot Structural Analysis.

The add-in that gained the most votes since our last listing was Enscape™  with 14 (for 38 total). For free add-ins, TransferSingle received 10 new votes (for 42 total). The add-in debuting with the most votes is DPR Model Slicer with 12.

And remember, reviews are important. Please take a few minutes to share your own experiences with apps on the App Store by submitting reviews!

Revit

Free

COINS Auto-Section Box
Brings fluidity to the Autodesk® Revit® section box when modifying complex areas of a model. Saves seconds when communicating, costly minutes when modeling, and valuable hours throughout a project | Free
 (99 reviews +2 )

Palladio X BIM WindowsLayout
Arrange windows by a scheme | Free
 (61 reviews +6 )

Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk ® Revit®
Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk® Revit® 4.0 is a proof of concept add-in to connect Revit and Unity® gaming development platform | Free
 (47 reviews +5 )

TransferSingle
Advanced way to transfer content and standards between one file and another (or multiple) | Free
 (42 reviews +10 )

Align
Quickly and easily align elements, tags, and texts for perfect models | Free
 (40 reviews +6 )

RQuick Select
Select elements by family type and their properties | Free
 (32 reviews)

Technology demonstration plug-in that enables Autodesk® Revit® users to browse SketchUp® 3D Warehouse | Free
 (27 reviews +4 )

Sheet Duplicator
Creation of new sheets is completed in only 3 steps. 1. Select sheet template 2. Import Excel 3. Create sheets. It cannot be easier than this! | Free
 (26 reviews)

Create finishing details for architectural rooms | Free
 (24 reviews +1 )

Visualize and verify the information in a model with color | Free
 (21 reviews +1 )

Re-assign the number properties, or other, of multiple elements in the order that the user selects by picking | Free  
 (20 reviews +4 )

This filter is a simple command for filtering of the selected elements in more detail | Free  
 (19 reviews +1 )

Advanced filter with expand capabilities and selection keeper | Free
 (18 reviews +1 )

Save time by automatically generating saved print sets directly from items in a sheet index or sheet list schedule with the click of a button | Free  
 (16 reviews +4 )

Automatically synchronize your open 3D views for pan, zoom, and orbit. Great BIM coordination tool! | Free
 (16 reviews)

Export Autodesk® Revit® Analytical Model into CSI's ETABS | Free
 (15 reviews +1 )

3D Section Box - an application, which helps you to find elements in 3D models. Create section box around selected elements. Very useful when you have to work with 2D and 3D | Free  
 (14 reviews +1 )

Interrogate and Manage Links in Autodesk® Revit® projects without having to open them | Free
 (13 reviews +7 )

Family Editor Interface helps users create/change content faster in the Family Editor by adding an easy to use layer of sliders that control the family parameters | Free
 (13 reviews +3 )

ReviTea Select Tools includes a set of tools that can help you browse, select and filter Autodesk® Revit® elements efficiently | Free
 (13 reviews +1 )

DPR Model Slicer New!
Section your Autodesk® Revit® models automatically and repeatedly by using preconfigured settings, which allow multiple different 3D sectioned views to be created within a single interface | Free
 (12 reviews)

Flipper
A tool to flip the work plane of multiple selected items | Free
 (12 reviews +1 )

This set of tools speeds up your work if you are creating pipe or duct systems. Family generators for piping manifolds and air handling units as well as powerful routing assistants are a must have | Free
 (12 reviews)

Automatically copes many beams/columns at once | Free
 (12 reviews)

This tool is used to purge unused views, sections and plans in a project | Free  
 (11 reviews +2 )

Collection of useful commands that simplify tedious and repetitive tasks, saving valuable time throughout the life of a project | Free  
 (11 reviews +2 )

Isolate and highlight elements in the model with warnings | Free  
 (10 reviews)

Export an open schedule from Autodesk® Revit® direct to Microsoft Excel either in CSV or XLXS formats from an open schedule view | Free  
 (9 reviews +2 )

This tool helps easily trim/extend Grids and Levels, turn on/off multiple bubbles of Grids and Levels | Free  
 (9 reviews +1 )

Exporting Autodesk® Revit® schedules to Excel files | Free
 (8 reviews +1 )

AUGmentecture is a service helping you to view 3D models on a mobile device. With the help of this plugin, you can upload your 3D models and floor plans directly from Revit® to your AUG account | Free
 (8 reviews +2 )

Always up-to-date luminaire library from Winled | Free
 (8 reviews +1 )

Microdesk Accelerator New!
Suite of useful tools that help in drafting and BIM management | Free  
 (8 reviews)

Purge CAD Plugin for Autodesk® Revit® enables users to purge all the Autodesk® AutoCAD® links/imports with just a simple click | Free  
 (8 reviews +2 )

Quickly reorders all or selected scope boxes in the project so the list in properties is ordered | Free
 (8 reviews)

Duplicator sheets with different settings and a unique system for setting names | Free
 (8 reviews +2 )

Show ID is a small but helpful tool for Autodesk® Revit® users to extract element IDs from Revit file and store in the element's project parameter, which is shown in the Properties Panel | Free  
 (8 reviews +1 )

To help with aligning views in the same location across sheets | Free  
 (7 reviews)

DoNotPlot allows you to pick categories and subcategories that will not plot/print for each Autodesk® Revit® model. This information is stored in the Revit model for all users of the addin | Free  
 (7 reviews +2 )

A note writing assistant, NoteBuilder gives Autodesk® Revit® live spell check, drafting standards check, change case of notes, it updates all identical notes in a drawing, and more note writing tools | Free  
 (7 reviews)

BIM Track™ is a web-based collaboration platform that empowers your team with better coordination workflows. It provides a central hub for all coordination information from design to construction | Free
 (6 reviews)

Turn your Autodesk® Revit® CAD designs into Augmented & Virtual Reality with just one click | Free
 (6 reviews)

If you manage construction models, this addin will revolutionize how you directly leverage design model geometry. Browse design models, clone & manage editable design geometry in just a few clicks | Free
 (6 reviews +2 )

In one click, create a consistent & clear preview image for your open Autodesk® Revit® family! No other add-in will provide this much satisfaction with so little effort! | Free  
 (6 reviews)

This tool is designed to extract revision schedules from all sheets of an Autodesk® Revit® project and export it to an Excel spreadsheet | Free
 (6 reviews +1 )

The STL Exporter is designed to produce a stereolithography file (STL) of your building model | Free  
 (6 reviews +2 )

The toolkit is a suite of tools that supports the BIM process and allows structural engineers to analyze structures from within the Autodesk® Revit® environment | Free
 (6 reviews)

Advance Steel 2017 Extension enables BIM data exchange between Autodesk® Revit® 2017 and Advance Steel 2017, through a complete set of functionalities like import, export or synchronize | Free
 (5 reviews -1 )

CG Finder 2018 New!
An Add-In for Autodesk® Revit® 2018 to calculate the centroid of a solid element or group of solid elements | Free  
 (5 reviews)

Cold-formed steel design tool that intelligently builds wall types with detailed properties, such as UL assemblies based on fire rating requirements, STC sound ratings and limiting height design | Free
 (5 reviews)

For people who manage Autodesk® Revit® content and projects, BIM Manager Suite contains tools to help standardize, protect, and quickly change Revit families and projects. For Revit 2016-2019 | Free  
 (5 reviews)

Quickly change the wall join type for each Wall in an Autodesk® Revit® selection | Free
 (5 reviews)

Quickly purges unused Scope Boxes from your Autodesk® Revit® project, but can also be used to get an overview of views and elements are using which Scope Box | Free  
 (5 reviews)

Transfer Family Parameters New!
Copy family parameters from one family to another in an Autodesk® Revit® Project | Free  
 (5 reviews)

Workset creator will let you handle workset names and create multiple worksets in just a few clicks. WorksetbyAverage will let you assign workset to multiple elements based in category, family or type | Free
 (5 reviews)

Autodesk® Revit® addin for placing Detail Items and Annotation Symbols with a modified interface to enhance productivity | Free
 (4 reviews)

CTB Link New!
Need to import your CAD drawings (DXF, DWG) into Revit but also use a CTB to transform them before importing? This is the add-in that does just that. Supports colors, line thickness and much more! | Free
 (4 reviews)

CTC BIM Project Suite 2019 New!
Automate tedious tasks, use the power of Excel with Revit, manage content, compare a project at 2 points in time, validate families in rooms and much more. For Revit 2016 to Revit 2019 | Free
 (4 reviews) 

Converts existing concrete columns which are present in Floor plan to reinforcement | Free  
 (4 reviews)

Reports the sizes of loadable families within the Autodesk® Revit® Project in Kilo Bytes | Free
 (4 reviews)

This application helps you with your day to day work in Autodesk® Revit®. Simple and representative user interface will help you find all Revit commands | Free  
 (4 reviews)

Tools for automated renaming of Autodesk® Revit® elements | Free  
 (4 reviews)

ReviTea Select Tools 2018 New!
ReviTea Select Tools includes a set of tools that can help you browse, select and filter Autodesk® Revit® elements efficiently | Free  
 (4 reviews)

SOFiSTiK BiMTOOLS are a set of free tools for Autodesk® Revit® Structure which enhances the productivity for elaborations of views up to 50% | Free  
 (4 reviews) 

View Creator New!
Create 50 views in 10 sec. Here you are! | Free
 (4 reviews)


Paid

Enscape™ – Real-time 3D rendered walkthrough plug-in with live integration inside Autodesk® Revit®. Show and communicate designs in your team or to your customers effortlessly | Trial
 (38 reviews +14 )

File Upgrader will batch upgrade previous versions of Autodesk® Revit® files to the latest Revit format. The tool can upgrade families, template files, and project files | USD 99.00  
 (21 reviews)

XYZ Coordinate App to extract and schedule the X, Y, Z and Easting and Northing Coordinates from the “Selected Revit Model elements category” | Trial
 (15 reviews +1 )

You are unique. Make your Autodesk® Revit® appearance look as unique as you. Give Revit your own personal style!! | USD 4.99  
 (14 reviews +9 )

Advanced Revision Cloud New!
This add-in will help you manage your Revision Clouds with Advanced Tools, create Excel Reports, and manage your BIM project better | USD 25.00  
 (12 reviews)

UNIFI is the single source, cloud platform to control, manage, analyze and create digital building content among leading architectural, engineering and construction organizations | Trial  
 (12 reviews)

Xrev Transmit is the ultimate print, export & transmittal tool for Autodesk® Revit® users. Publish drawing sheets and the model in numerous formats all at the same time, with the settings you need | Trial  
 (12 reviews +3 )

Bonus Tools contains 120 apps and can help any practice save time. Download, test and experience time saving tools that allow you to focus on the important tasks at hand | Trial
 (10 reviews)

This add-in will duplicate existing sheets to make new sheets with more powerful function: duplicate views with duplicate option, apply view template | USD 35.00
 (10 reviews)

Simple, intuitive keynote file editing directly within Autodesk® Revit® | Trial  
 (10 reviews)

Quickly imports and synchronizes Scope Boxes between different Autodesk® Revit® projects | USD 20.00
 (10 reviews)

In one click, replace those ugly preview images with consistent & clear images for your entire library! No other add-in will provide this much satisfaction with so little effort! | USD 139.00/Y  
 (9 reviews +3 )

Rockit™ Autodesk® Revit® productivity tools to assist BIM managers & anyone with a huge collection of utilities Bulk Rename, Quick Search Project/Category/Materials, Parameters, Publish PDF & more | USD 8.50/M  
 (9 reviews +1 )

DWG Explorer lets you instantly see, select, delete or show all CAD files in their host Revit views. It can also list and open each of all Revit views & sheets where a CAD file is visible | USD 4.95/M  
 (8 reviews)

Project Sweeper is a collection of tools that allow a user to quickly and accurately remove clutter from Autodesk® Revit® projects | USD 2.00/Y  
 (8 reviews +2 )

Scan Terrain New!
Creates an Autodesk® Revit® Toposurface from a laser-scanned point cloud with the option to isolate the ground terrain | USD 4.99
 (8 reviews)

Batch print, Content management tools (parameters, subcategories, library analysis), selection manager, sheets handling tools. Library browser (web enabled), project upgrader, copy element types | Trial  
 (7 reviews -1 )

DWG Explorer lets you instantly see, select, delete or show all CAD files in their host Revit views. It can also list and open each of all Revit views & sheets where a CAD file is visible | USD 4.95/M
 (7 reviews -1 )

LinkLess New!
Open your Autodesk® Revit® file without loading any link to other RVT files | USD 5.99
 (7 reviews)

Pile Coordinate App to extract and schedule the X, Y, Z and Easting and Northing Coordinates from “Structural Column and Structural Foundation | Pile” | Trial
 (7 reviews)

Smart manage revisions, clouds and sheets | USD 15.00
 (7 reviews)

Topo Align 2018 New!
Align topography to elements picked in the model | USD 3.00 
 (7 reviews)

Set of productivity tools for Autodesk® Revit® Architecture and Autodesk® Revit® MEP - job-time tracker, door/wall legends, text replacements, renumbering, sheet formats, RFA library | Trial  
 (6 reviews)

The most advanced publisher tool for construction professionals. Exports PDF, DWG, IFC and drawing lists in 1 job, with your office standards and intelligent detection of size and orientation | Trial
 (6 reviews)

DWG Explorer lets you instantly see, select, delete or show all CAD files in their host Revit views. It can also list and open each of all Revit views & sheets where a CAD file is visible | USD 4.95/M  
 (6 reviews)

Ideate BIMLink lets you pull data from an Autodesk® Revit® file into user-friendly Microsoft Excel and push Excel data into Revit with equal ease | Trial
 (6 reviews)

This tool makes the task of allowing (or disallowing) the joining of many walls at once into a simple one command task | USD 4.99
 (6 reviews)

A set of 5 tools designed to easily check and convert elements to either uppercase, lowercase, title case or sentence case | USD 4.99
 (6 reviews)

CADdaddy Tools is a productivity pack with powerful and unique tools: family exporter, renumbering tools, hide elements in selected views, associate family parameters, and toggle reference planes | Trial  
 (5 reviews)

Set of productivity tools for Autodesk® Revit® 2017 - job-time tracker, door/wall legends, text replacements, renumbering, sheet formats, RFA library | Trial  
 (5 reviews)

Adds one-line riser diagrams, feeder and branch circuit wire sizing, fault calculations, voltage drop calculations, and arc-flash calculations to Autodesk® Revit® MEP | Trial  
 (5 reviews)

Family Names New!
FamilyName – Easy to use plug-in that helps you in standardizing naming of families and types according to your set of rules | USD 29.00  
 (5 reviews) 

Batch Add Shared Parameters to your families’ library with auto backup cleaner & progress bar | USD 20.00  
 (5 reviews)

Save hundreds of hours with productivity tools including synchronizing data with Excel, filtering elements using parameter data, automatically creating elements around space boundaries, and much more! | USD 99.99  
 (5 reviews)

Whenever you want to reuse / copy view filter overrides between views or view templates in Autodesk® Revit®, this application will do it in seconds, saving hours of tedious manual work | USD 90.00
 (5 reviews)

Auto Insulation Creator New!
Create batch insulation for ducts and pipes and theirs corresponding connectors and accessories automatically with given insulation settings of type and thickness | Trial
 (4 reviews)

Upgrade multiple Autodesk® Revit® Projects (*.rvt) or Revit Families (*.rfa) in a folder to the most current version | USD 20.00
 (4 reviews)

BindSharedParam New!
Add multiple Shared Parameters to Projects, Templates and Families | USD 10.00
 (4 reviews)

Bird Tools' Tag Alignment Tool New!
Aligns Autodesk® Revit® tags and text notes automatically | USD 1.00/M
 (4 reviews)

With the investigative power of the Parameter Report tool you can find, figure out, and fix – fast! Drastically reduce repetitive parameter edits and minimize time to investigate modeling issues | USD 9.99  
 (4 reviews)

cove.tool New!
Exports building geometry to cove.tool projects | Trial
 (4 reviews)

Section Plugin for Autodesk® Revit® enables users to draw a section around simple MEP curved objects (like pipes, ducts, cable trays, and conduits) easily without any effort with just one click! | USD 1.99/M
 (4 reviews)

M.L.T.E. New!
Multi Line Text Editor | USD 5.00
 (4 reviews)

PF Printer PDF v4.0 New!
Batch printer - print selected sheets to PDF in one click - supports standard paper sizes and also custom paper sizes - all automatically. Easy set output directory and output file name | Trial
 (4 reviews) 

Rewrite New!
Rename multiple Views, Sheets, Levels, Grids, Reference Planes, Family Types, Families, Family Parameter Values, Rooms, Areas and Materials. Duplicate Multiple Views, Sheets and Family Types | USD 9.00
 (4 reviews) 

Topo Align 2017 New!
Align topography to elements picked in the model | USD 3.00
 (4 reviews)

Topo Align 2019 New!
Align topography to elements picked in the model | USD 3.00  
 (4 reviews)

ViewIT New!
Take back time and eliminate micro-stresses of searching for views when modeling and documenting complex projects using Autodesk ® Revit ® Project Browser. Produce more, focus better, and stress less | USD 20.00/Y
 (4 reviews)

Productivity suite for Autodesk® Revit® | Trial
 (4 reviews)


Navisworks New!

Free

Properties+
A plugin that allows you to see just the properties you are interested in | Free
 (13 reviews)

BIMCAVE Auto Search Set
Auto create Search Sets for the all/selected values of any property. You may create for Entire Project or only for Selected Elements. Useful for Clash Detection, Timeliner attach and Viewpoint create | Free
 (12 reviews)

BIM Track™
BIM Track™ is a web-based collaboration platform that empowers your team with better coordination workflows. It provides a central hub for all coordination information from design to construction | Free
 (6 reviews)

Spools To Search Sets
Automatically creates and maintains Search Sets for unique property values. Also provides further organization of sets into Primary and Secondary folders based on a property value delimiter | Free
 (4 reviews)

Paid

Spot Elevations
Spot the elevation of any element inside Autodesk® Navisworks® in real time. Create SavedViewPoint with Elevation Marks in just one click | USD 12.00
 (11 reviews)

Smart Unhide Elements for Autodesk® Navisworks®
Finally, a smart tool to 'Unhide Elements' by selecting them on a list. You will never have to "Unhide-All" in Navisworks ,or "Reveal Hidden Elements" in Revit, just to find few elements in the model | USD 10.00
 (10 reviews)

Smart Plant 3D Loader for Navisworks 2017
Use this plugin to enable Autodesk® Navisworks® Simulate and Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage to load and view Intergraph Smartplant 3D (.vue) files into your projects | Subscription App
 (8 reviews)

Group Clashes
Automatically sort and group clashes | USD 10.00
 (6 reviews)

Smart Plant 3D Loader for Navisworks 2018
Use this plugin to enable Autodesk® Navisworks® Simulate and Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage to load and view Intergraph Smartplant 3D (.vue) files into your projects | Subscription App
 (6 reviews)

Advance Steel New!

Free

Be able to change the time it takes to show/hide or roll-up/roll-out the palette windows in Autodesk® AutoCAD® | Free
 (6 reviews)

DWG Columns for Explorer Free
DWG Columns freeware shows the DWG and DXF version in Explorer columns or in file dialog boxes within Autodesk® AutoCAD® or other applications | Free
 (5 reviews)

Paid

Sheet Set Manager Properties Editor 30-day trial with full functionality | Trial
 (7 reviews)

Sheet Set Manager Properties Editor | USD 95.00
 (6 reviews)


Robot Structural Analysis New!

Free

The toolkit is a suite of tools that supports the BIM process and allows structural engineers to analyze structures from within the Autodesk® Revit® environment | Free
 (6 reviews)



Add-ins Removed Since our Last Listing

Removed from the App Store

  • Drag Rebars - ToRD
  • File Version Check & Upgrade Warning
  • HotGear Project - Element Merger
  • HotGear Project - Parameter Explorer
  • Quick Commands Search
  • Quickshot Pro
  • SOFiSTiK Reinforcement Detailing 2016

Overall Rating Now Less than 5-Stars

Lumion® LiveSync®

* With four or more reviews.

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