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Thursday, September 30, 2021

L4R Walls Editor Pro

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

L4R Walls Editor Pro is an add-on for managing walls in Autodesk® Revit® that will help you increase your productivity and save costs. L4R Walls Editor Pro allows the user to automatically split walls into customizable groups of layers, adjusting the top and bottom offsets and also selecting the host for their elements (e.g. windows).

In addition, it contains a useful selection operation that allows the users to quickly select any walls according to several criteria: wall type, their location, exterior or interior, type of elements attached to it, ...

L4R Door and Window Schedules

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

L4R Door and Window Schedules is an Autodesk® Revit® addon to create door and window legends with the plan and section views of all doors and windows in your projects. You can use the default included tag or adapt your own tag to show the values computed automatically (e.g. the number of instances of a specific door in the project).

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

L4R Sheet Creator Assistant

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

L4R Sheet Creator Assistant is an add-on to create sheets quickly and easily in Autodesk® Revit® that will help you increase your productivity and save costs.

The tool is able to create the sheet and the views which define a room, dimensioning the walls and the furniture in the views. The user can select the views that will be included in the sheets: sections, floorplans, 3d views… as well as the title block and the scale that he wants to use.  

L4R Family Legend Creator

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

L4R Family Legend Creator is an Autodesk® Revit® add-on that allows the user to automatically create a legend using a schedule.

L4R Family Legend Creator is capable of creating symbols from an object instantiated on sheet. The user automatically can instantiate the legend in the selected plane sheet. This legend will be created with the instance of objects on the sheet selected by the user.

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Fordify — Improves 4D and 5D Workflows

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Fordify was developed to improve existing 4D & 5D BIM workflows between Autodesk® Revit® & Autodesk® Navisworks®, acting as a Primer for rapid 4D & 5D workflows between Revit & Navisworks. A step towards “Model-driven construction planning & scheduling” approach to construction planning, a radical approach compared to the conventional way of drawing up Gantt charts from zero.

  • Simple controls to dictate precedence of elements during the simulation. 
    • Select your Groupings ordered by Categories, Levels, Zones and/ or Rooms.
    • Organize each Group's precedence in respective settings.
    • Customise desired task label output using Prefix, Suffix & Delimiters
  • Use Fordify for tag annotations as well !
    • Generate sequenced tag labels for documentation within seconds !

Check out our video demonstration to understand how Fordify works !

Clash Handler 3D

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Easy and fast advanced management of all the clashes in your project.

Improve your efficiency.

Uses Clash Handler to find and solve clashes quickly and easily in a 3D View. 

Clash Handler will apply a SECTION BOX around the elements that CLASH. 

Clash Handler also works with linked files.


Monday, September 27, 2021

Create Electrical Wire from Lines or CAD Files

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

This tool is designed to convert Autodesk® Revit® lines into an electrical wire. The tool will work for Revit model lines or lines imported from CAD. 

The tool is useful for the users who are transferring CAD to Revit. Instead of creating the wires one by one, the tool can convert the CADwires into Revit Wires. 

Also, the tool can work in Revit lines and convert it to wires.


Quick Joins

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Quick Joins is a plugin for Autodesk® Revit® to easily and efficiently Join/Switch join/Unjoin multiple elements of the active view of any Revit project at a time. The plugin can be applied to various architectural and structural kinds of elements.

The plugin helps boost your productivity by helping you process thousands of join geometry commands in batch while you can step out and enjoy a hot cup of coffee

You can perform the following tasks in batch:

  • Join Geometry
  • Unjoin Geometry
  • Switch Join Geometry

The following elements are supported:

  • Walls
  • Floors
  • Ceilings
  • Columns
  • Structural Framing
  • Structural Columns
  • Structural Foundations

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Tag the Second Connector

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

This tool is designed to tag the second connector in the electrical fixtures or lighting fixtures that contain 2 electrical connectors. 

As known, you can create one circuit tag for the electrical fixtures or the lighting fixtures families but you can't tag the second connector if it exists.

This tool will do the following: 

  1. The tool will create a shared parameter called "Circuit_Number_2".It will be defined under the electrical fixtures category and the lighting fixtures category as instance and text parameter. 
  2. The tool will load the circuit tag family which is prepared to tag the second connector it called "Circuit_Number_2.rfa. 
  3. After running the tool the  "Circuit_Number_2" the parameter will be filled with data from the second connector. 
  4. You can easily tag the fixtures using the loaded tag "Circuit_Number_2.rfa.

Free Schedule Plus — Export to Excel or Copy to Clipboard

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Schedule Plus gathers several commands that will help you manage your data from Autodesk® Revit®, and make you save a lot of time exporting and processing schedules and quantities.

Command 1: Export to Excel:

  • Export Revit Schedules to Excel Worksheets in a single click
  • Set up your own XLSX template so that the exported schedules will instantly look fabulous
  • Batch save all selected schedules into one workbook (with multiple worksheets) or multiple workbooks

Available commands

Saturday, September 25, 2021

Free Atkore BIM Toolbar — Place Atkore Product Families

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The Atkore™ Toolbar for Autodesk® Revit® allows you to import BIM models into your designs without having to leave the Revit software to search multiple websites for the products you need. Using Atkore’s  Toolbar simplifies project designs with easy access to Atkore product models. Within the toolbar, you’ll be able to find BIM families and models for Atkore’s sub-brands such as Allied Tube & Conduit, Columbia-MBF, Calconduit, ACS/Uni-fab, AFC Cable Systems, Kaf-Tech, Calbond, Calbrite, Cii, Cope, Eastern Wire + Conduit, Heritage Plastics, Power-Strut, and Unistrut.

Some of the toolbars main functionalities include: 

Access to Atkore product families 

Over 650 Atkore product families are available for import within the Revit Toolbar. Select the product and product type as well as the product category and category type and the toolbar will provide the corresponding BIM model. 

Library Manager 

The toolbar is completely customizable from one project to the next. You have the option to pick and choose which products and product categories you would like to import in the toolbar for each project. 

Contact Support 

The Revit Toolbar provides a direct line of communication via the phone number and email of an Atkore technical sales representative based on your location. You can ask technical and application questions to get more information on the products in the toolbar. 

Free ElementSelector Pro2

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

ElementSelector Pro is a free Autodesk® Revit® Application to Filter, Preview, and Select elements from an active view, a level, current selection, or entire project by its category and a parameter value. And these additional useful features are included:

  • Interaction with Element(s) without necessary to close the dialog.
  • Category and Parameter are optional filters to make a selection.
  • Parameter Rule Filter support all parameter types.
  • Click to a preview item(ElementId) to zoom in on the associated element.


Friday, September 24, 2021

Free Webinar September 29 — Selection Sets with MWF

From the announcement:

Upcoming Webinar: Selection Sets

In next week's webinar, we walk users through how to use Selection Sets in MWF. Join us Wednesday, September 29th at either 10 AM or 2 PM.

We'll cover:

  • What are Selection Sets
  • Creating new Selection Sets
  • How to quickly manipulate your model through Selection by Set
  • Modifying/Combining/Copying Sets

Have more questions? Easily "raise your hand" during the webinar in the GoTo Webinar dashboard. We'll be having a live Q & A at the end of the webinar.

Can't make the scheduled time? Register and the recording of the webinar will be sent after the session.

REGISTER NOW

Previous webinar:

You're busy and that's OK! You can now view the full recording of our "Linking Consultant Revit Files and Using Copy Monitor" webinar using the link below.

If you would like to know more about MWF, including setting up a one-on-one demo with one of our technicians, please do not hesitate to reach out to our sales department at info@strucsoftsolutions.com.

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Free bimproject.cloud BIM Catalog

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

With this app you can create BIM objects as RFA families with generic or real geometry and use it in your BIM model. 

You can add and modify product properties and geometry levels and create either product requirements or full product specifications. In bimproject.cloud BIM catalog you can find thousands of products, but our library contains various types of RFA families like sanitary, construction parts, doors, windows, or MEP BIM object types.

The product database is automatically synchronized so all product data is always up-to-date. 


Thursday, September 23, 2021

Id:window — Create, Add and Modify Windows

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

This add-in allows you, through a graphical interface, to create fully configurable parametric windows from more than ten preset types, add them to your project and modify them easily and quickly.

More information

Main features:

  • Simple, fast and intuitive graphical interface
  • 10+ Window Types.
  • Imperial and metric units.
  • Set frame parameters.
  • Set sash and grid parameters.
  • Set sill and board parameters.
  • Set interior and exterior trim parameters.
  • Create custom windows by combining different types of sash into up to six individual panels.
  • Define the type parameters from the graphical interface.
  • Assign materials to each part of the window.
  • Name of the windows can be defined automatically or custom.
  • Windows created with id:window can be modified and edited with the same graphical interface.
  • All window families have shared parameters that allow them to be included in schedules.
  • Opening line can be shown or hidden.
  • Change family to another from the graphical interface.
  • Three levels of detail: coarse, medium, and fine.
  • Set horizontal cut plane of the custom window that will be shown in the floor plan.


Free ProSheets — Bulk Export Views/Sheets

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

ProSheets is a free plugin for Autodesk® Revit® that allows users to bulk export views/sheets to PDF, DWG, DGN, DWF, NWC, IFC, and IMG (e.g., JPEG, PNG, TIFF, etc).

Main features:

  • Auto-detection of the paper size
  • Auto-detection of the paper orientation
  • Auto-generation of custom paper sizes
  • Advanced naming rules (using sheet parameters and project information parameters)
  • Ability to store your favorite settings in a profile.

Notes:

This add-in will automatically install the PDF24 and a custom 'diroots.prosheets' virtual printer. Uninstalling them will make ProSheets stop working.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Environment — Place Models in the Context of a Real Site

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The environment is an application, which helps architects, landscape architects and landscape designers to avoid the routine and complex operations with placing an architectural model in the environment of a real site and gives an opportunity to enjoy a design process.

To this end, we have developed a number of unique tools:

For example, using our technology of automatic attitude to topography, you can place walls and floors on topographies adjacent to the projected building in one click.


Free PointKit — Boost Productivity when Working with Point Clouds

From the DiRoots website:

PointKit 1.0.0.0

A free Autodesk Revit Add-in to boost your productivity when working with Point Clouds.


Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Free Webinar October 12 — Automated Tasks with Dynamo for Revit

From the announcement:

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

1:00 PM ET

Dynamo for Revit is a visual programming environment integrated into Revit that enables designers to create visual logic to explore parametric conceptual designs and automate tasks.

During this webinar, we will:

  • Review what is Dynamo for Revit
  • Discuss what repetitive tasks exist
  • Create placeholder sheets from an excel document to demonstrate reading Excel data, creating Revit content, and filling in Revit parameters
  • Demonstrate reading parameter values from Revit and writing parameter values to Revit

Register for the webinar »


Free Webinar September 22 — Introduction to Family Preview Manager from CTC BIM Manager Suite

From the announcement:

The family preview that is visible from windows and while loading family content is as important as the family name for identifying what is about to be loaded. Sadly, Revit® previews are quite tedious to configure. Each family must individually be touched to ensure a view is configured and established as the preview so when the family is edited, that view is still correct and ready for the updating of the family preview on save. This is something that is almost never consistently done on corporate libraries.

CTC Software Live Webinar

Date: Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT

Cost: FREE

Learning Points:

  • Establish preview generation rules for repeatable preview generation
  • Run test preview generation on active family(ies)
  • Implement Family Preview Generation on all content in library
  • Learn how to obtain the BIM Manager Suite

Register for the Webinar!


Monday, September 20, 2021

Free Quick Rotate

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Essential add-in for all BIM Modelers!

Create your own custom commands to rotate selected elements with a tap of a finger. 

You can think of this app as an improved version of the native "Spacebar rotate command" in Autodesk® Revit®. 

What's different from the native "Spacebar rotate command":

  • You can use it in any kind of view: plan view, elevation, 3D view...
  • Set up in advance your custom rotation angle and rotation axis.
  • Works with a selection of multiple elements
  • Works with more types of elements: model elements, detail items, grids, sections...

App workflow: 

Use this plug-in's settings interface to set up 1, 2 or 3 different Quick Rotate commands.

  • Set their rotation angle
  • Determine their rotation axis

Then, attribute your custom commands to your own keyboard shortcuts, and trigger them with a tap of a finger. 

App workflow: sample cases

Free Links Manager

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The plugin provides an alternative to the built-in Manage Links Tool.

The program has a user-friendly design and allows you to quickly load Autodesk® Revit® Links or reload them from other files.


Sunday, September 19, 2021

BIMright — "A Suite of Powerful Features that Automates Work Within Revit"

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Watch the video on how to create smart schedules in Autodesk®Revit®, and bypass Revit limitations by using BIMright. Click Here

BIMright is a suite of powerful features that automates your work within Revit which saves Revit users hours of time and ensures data efficiency.

Here is the list of features:

Data Reference - A live reference to data in the project, for example, the total of the length parameter of all walls of a specific level, and then you can bind it to a text note to update text in your project as you change the model, or you can bind it to global parameters so you can use it with formulas.

Text Note Binding - This allows you to bind a Text Note to a Data Reference, Project Information or Global Parameter so it will be updated with live project data as you change the model, and you can also bind to a cell in a linked Excel file.

Bind Text Note to Data Reference.

Select By Floor/Roof/Ceiling

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

This app helps you to select multi-elements in the boundary of floor, roof, or ceiling.

Select floors, roofs, or ceilings and modify the top or bottom offset (vertical range).

Click selected button, then elements will be selected in the boundary.


Saturday, September 18, 2021

Type Browser

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Typebrowser is a useful Autodesk® Revit® Addin for modify element type.

With this type browser app, you can select type easily to create or change element's type.

Create elements : select type in the list -> double click -> create mode is active.

Change type of elements : select elements -> select type in the list -> double click -> elements type is changed.

Views Name Batch Editor

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Edit the names of the project view at the same time.

  • Text replace
  • Add prefix or suffix
  • Add serial
  • Change case