Free Cupix Reality Importer: Import Standard Point Cloud Files Directly into Revit

Summary

Cupix Reality Importer is a free Autodesk Revit plug-in developed by Cupix Inc. that allows users to import standard point cloud files directly into Revit. It is designed to simplify scan-to-BIM workflows by removing the need to convert point cloud data into Autodesk ReCap format before bringing it into a Revit project.

Purpose and Design Intent

The main purpose of Cupix Reality Importer is to make reality-capture data easier to use inside Revit. Native Revit workflows typically rely on indexed point cloud files created through Autodesk ReCap, which can add extra conversion steps to a scan-to-BIM process. Cupix Reality Importer addresses this by supporting direct import of several standard or Cupix-specific point cloud formats, helping users move reality-capture data into Revit more quickly.

Supported File Formats

The Autodesk Marketplace listing states that the add-in supports PLY, XYZ, E57, and CPC files. CPC is Cupix’s own Cupix Point Cloud format. The plug-in imports coordinate data and color attributes when those attributes are present in the source file, helping preserve the visual and spatial usefulness of the point cloud inside Revit.

CupixWorks Alignment Data

Starting with version 1.1.1, Cupix Reality Importer supports optional automated point cloud positioning through CupixWorks alignment data. This alignment data is provided as a JSON file exported from CupixWorks. When the JSON alignment file is selected during import, the point cloud can be placed at the exact position aligned with the BIM model, eliminating the need for manual placement in many cases.

If alignment data is not provided, the point cloud is imported with its origin positioned at Revit’s internal origin. In that situation, users may need to reposition or align the point cloud manually using standard Revit tools. The alignment-data workflow is therefore most valuable when point clouds are exported from a CupixWorks project that has already been aligned to a BIM file.

Typical Workflow

A typical workflow begins in CupixWorks, where users process or manage reality-capture data and export a point cloud file. If the project includes BIM alignment, users can also export the Cupix Alignment Data JSON file. In Revit, users install the appropriate Reality Importer version, open the target Revit project, run the import command, select the point cloud file, optionally select the alignment JSON file, and import the data into the model environment.

Product Roundup: IB-BIM

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Get Linked IDs

Extract element IDs and properties from linked Autodesk® Revit® files.

Export to Excel with Category, Family, Type, Link File, Level, Workset, and Mark details. | Free

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Export and import Autodesk® Revit® schedules to Excel. Edit parameters in Excel and update your model instantly. | Free

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Visibility Manager: Manage View Filters and V/G Overrides Across Views, View Templates, and Projects

Summary

Visibility Manager is a professional Autodesk Revit add-in developed by IB-BIM / Itzik Bejarano for managing view filters and Visibility/Graphics overrides across Revit views, view templates, and projects. It is designed to reduce the manual effort required to copy, remove, export, and import view-filter settings and category-based V/G overrides, especially in large models with many views, templates, disciplines, and documentation standards.

Purpose and Design Intent

The add-in addresses a common Revit production challenge: keeping visibility settings consistent across many views and templates. Native Revit tools can manage filters and V/G overrides, but applying the same settings repeatedly across many targets can be slow and error-prone. Visibility Manager provides a structured interface for bulk operations, allowing BIM teams to standardize project appearance, streamline coordination views, and manage template-driven graphics more efficiently.

Core Workflow

Visibility Manager works from the currently active Revit view. Users launch the tool from the IB-BIM ribbon tab or the Add-Ins tab, choose whether to work in Filters Mode or V/G Overrides Mode, select source settings from the current view, and then choose target views or target templates. The tool is organized around three main areas: the current source view, target views, and target templates. This layout makes it clear where settings are coming from and where they will be applied.

Dual Operation Modes

Filters Mode

Filters Mode allows users to copy or remove Revit view filters in bulk. The add-in preserves filter settings, rules, criteria, conditions, parameters, graphic overrides, and complex logic so that filters can be replicated accurately from a source view to multiple views or templates. This is useful for coordination filters, discipline filters, phasing filters, system-color filters, issue-review filters, and other office-standard graphics.

Type Manager Pro: Batch Rename Revit Types

Summary

Type Manager Pro is a commercial Autodesk Revit add-in developed by IB-BIM Tools / Itzik Bejarano for batch renaming Revit types. Unlike family-data management tools that focus on Type Catalogs or Lookup Tables, this add-in is centered on the practical day-to-day task of renaming existing Revit element types inside a project with controlled preview, validation, Excel export/import, and undo support.

Purpose and Design Intent

The add-in is designed to help BIM managers, coordinators, and Revit power users rename many Revit types quickly while avoiding common naming mistakes. Revit type names are often managed manually across walls, doors, windows, furniture, equipment, annotation objects, and other model or documentation categories. Type Manager Pro provides a dedicated interface where users can select a category, filter available types, preview proposed changes, validate results, and execute all approved renames in a single Revit transaction.

Core Workflow

Users open a Revit project, go to the IB-BIM Tools ribbon tab, launch Type Manager Pro, and choose a category from the dropdown list. The tool displays all types in that category with selection checkboxes and a live preview column. Users can select individual types or all visible types, apply a renaming operation, review the preview results, and then execute the valid changes. The execute button changes color to communicate status: gray when no items are selected, green when valid renames are ready, and red when all selected items contain errors.

Rename Operations

• Prefix: Adds text before the current type name.
• Suffix: Adds text after the current type name.
• Find/Replace: Replaces matching text inside type names.
• Wildcard support: Supports wildcard patterns such as asterisks and question marks in find-and-replace operations.
• Search filtering: Allows users to filter the displayed type list before selecting and renaming items.
• Live preview: Shows proposed new names before changes are applied, with valid changes and errors visually distinguished.

Free ScheduleLink: Round-Trip Element Information Between Schedules & Excel

Summary

ScheduleLink is a free Autodesk Revit add-in from IB-BIM that creates a round-trip connection between Revit schedules and Microsoft Excel. It allows users to export Revit schedules to professionally formatted Excel workbooks, edit schedule values in Excel, and import the changes back into Revit so that the underlying Revit elements are updated directly.

Purpose and Design Intent

The add-in is designed for Revit users who prefer to review, edit, and coordinate schedule data in Excel while still keeping the Revit model as the source of truth. Instead of manually changing many parameter values inside Revit schedules, users can use Excel’s familiar editing environment for bulk changes, then use ScheduleLink to validate and synchronize those edits back to model elements.

Core Workflow

ScheduleLink works through a simple export-edit-import process. Users launch the tool from an open Revit project, choose any schedule from the project list, preview the schedule parameters with color-coded editability indicators, export the schedule to Excel, make edits in the workbook, and then import the modified file back into Revit. During import, the add-in checks the workbook, applies only changed values, and provides a detailed results summary.

Key Features

• Exports Revit schedules to Excel with a WYSIWYG approach so the workbook reflects the schedule’s sorting, grouping, filters, and column order.
• Allows users to pick from all schedules in the current project without opening the schedule view first.
• Includes fast dynamic search for locating schedules by name.
• Displays a parameter preview with color-coded columns that indicate editable, type, calculated, and read-only fields.
• Imports modified Excel data back into Revit and updates only values that changed.
• Uses smart pre-checks to detect whether the Excel file contains changes before beginning import.
• Provides project validation to help prevent importing data into the wrong Revit project.
• Includes detailed import progress, error reporting, and copy-to-clipboard results.
• Supports full undo behavior by applying imports in a single Revit transaction.
• Includes right-to-left language support for Hebrew, Arabic, and other RTL languages.

Free Get Linked IDs: Get Element IDs for Linked Elements & Export Them to Excel

Summary

Get Linked IDs is a free Autodesk Revit add-in from IB-BIM that extracts element IDs and related properties from linked Revit models. The tool is aimed at users who work with complex multi-discipline linked models and need a fast way to identify, copy, document, and export information about elements that exist in linked files rather than in the active host model.

Purpose and Design Intent

The main purpose of Get Linked IDs is to make linked-model coordination easier. In Revit, identifying an element in a linked architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, or plumbing model can be more cumbersome than identifying elements in the current file. This add-in simplifies that task by letting users select elements from linked Revit files, view their IDs in a results window, copy those IDs, and export a more complete data set to Excel.

Core Workflow

The workflow is intentionally simple: the user launches the command, selects one or more elements from any linked Revit file, reviews the collected element IDs in a styled dialog, and then either copies the IDs to the clipboard or exports the selected element information to Excel. Version 1.1.0 also includes an Export & Open option, allowing users to save the Excel file and open it directly from the add-in.

Key Features

• Select multiple elements from linked Revit files.
• Display all selected linked element IDs in an organized results window.
• Copy all collected IDs to the clipboard with one click.
• Export selected linked-element data to Excel.
• Include detailed information such as Element ID, Category, Family, Type Name, Link File Name, Level, Workset, Phase, and Mark.
• Use Export & Open to save and open the Excel output directly.
• Use safe file export logic intended to handle locked files more reliably.
• Create Excel files with color-coded headers, auto-filter, and freeze panes for easier review.
• Access the command from the IB-BIM Tools ribbon tab.

Planary for Autodesk Revit: Feasibility Studies Using Simple Filled Regions

Summary

Planary for Autodesk Revit is an early-stage design, feasibility-study, and urban-planning add-in developed by AgileForm. It is intended to help architects and planners test massing concepts, evaluate site-planning scenarios, and generate planning metrics directly inside Revit. The add-in focuses on transforming simple 2D planning geometry into 3D parametric massing studies with live statistics, making it especially useful during concept design and pre-design feasibility work.

Purpose and Design Intent

Planary is designed to simplify feasibility studies by keeping the planning workflow inside the user’s familiar BIM environment. Instead of building detailed Revit models too early or manually calculating development statistics, users can draw planning areas with Revit Filled Regions and let Planary convert those regions into measurable, visual, and editable development studies. This helps project teams quickly compare options before committing to more detailed modeling.

How Planary Works in Revit

Planary uses Revit Filled Regions as the basis for planning geometry. Each filled region can be assigned planning parameters such as the number of floors, floor height, space use, and building-part type. Planary combines the 2D geometry with those parameters to generate 3D parametric buildings, land-use areas, and feasibility statistics. As the user continues editing the 2D regions in Revit, Planary updates the study through a live link so that changes to the plan are reflected in the metrics and 3D visualization.

Key Features

Live Feasibility Metrics

One of Planary’s core strengths is its ability to provide immediate feedback while the user is still sketching or adjusting the project concept. The tool can report feasibility metrics such as Gross Floor Area, Floor Space Index, Building Coverage Ratio, number of units, parking requirements, cost, and other project-planning statistics. Recent product descriptions also highlight floor-by-floor breakdowns such as total floor area, gross floor area, and net sellable area, giving users more granular insight into how a proposal performs.

Kobi Toolkit for Autodesk Revit: A Broad, All-in-One Productivity Suite

Summary

Kobi Toolkit for Autodesk Revit is a productivity add-in from KobiLabs designed to enhance BIM workflows, reduce repetitive tasks, and extend Revit’s native capabilities. According to KobiLabs and the Autodesk App Store listing, the toolkit includes nine toolsets and more than 40 individual tools focused on BIM management, QA/QC, analysis, reinforcement, annotation, modification, view control, selection, and content administration.

Purpose and Positioning

The toolkit is intended for Revit users who need practical utilities that save time during model setup, documentation, model checking, data editing, and content management. Rather than focusing on one narrow workflow, it functions as a broad all-in-one productivity suite for design and BIM teams. Its strongest value is in helping users complete common model-management tasks faster and with fewer manual steps.

Main Toolsets

Kobi Toolkit is organized into nine toolsets: BIM Manager, QA & QC, Analysis, Reinforcement, Annotate, Modify, View, Selection, and Content Admin Kit. This organization makes the toolkit applicable to multiple stages of a Revit project, including project setup, model production, coordination review, documentation, reporting, and content library maintenance.

Key Features

BIM Query

BIM Query is one of the toolkit’s central features. It allows users to edit type and instance properties for selected Revit categories in a spreadsheet-style interface. The built-in editor supports common Excel-like functions such as sorting, filtering, and copying parameters. Users can also export schedule or model data to Excel, update it externally, and bring the revised data back into Revit. This makes BIM Query valuable for bulk parameter editing, schedule review, model data cleanup, and reducing repetitive manual property changes.

BIM Query

Tagitize: Tag All Across Multiple Views Without Overlaps, Plus Much More

Summary

Tagitize is an Autodesk Revit add-in designed to automate tagging and simplify dimensioning workflows in Revit documentation. Its main purpose is to reduce the manual effort required to place, adjust, audit, and maintain tags across views and sheets, while improving drawing clarity, consistency, and documentation quality.

Primary Purpose

The add-in acts as a more capable alternative to Revit’s native Tag All command. While Tag All is limited to the active view and often requires substantial cleanup, Tagitize extends tagging automation to multiple views and sheets, applies user-defined tagging styles, reduces overlapping tags, and supports conditional tagging based on project-specific rules.

Key Tagging Capabilities

• Batch tagging across views and sheets: Tagitize can apply tags to several Revit views or sheets at once, reducing the repetitive work of tagging each view individually.
• Overlap reduction: The add-in is designed to place tags in cleaner positions so that tags do not overlap each other or obscure the documentation.
• Custom tagging styles: Users can configure tagging preferences, including leader behavior, tag positioning, and style settings, then reuse those standards across projects.
• Conditional tagging: Tagitize can tag only elements that meet specific criteria, such as fire-rated doors, walls over a defined length, or elements that satisfy parameter-based conditions.
• Tag grouping and merging: The tool can group similar or identical tags, including support for multi-leader tags, helping reduce annotation clutter while retaining required information.

Audit and Quality Control Tools

Beyond tag creation, Tagitize includes tools for reviewing and correcting tag-related issues. It can help locate empty tags, review generated tag placements, identify inconsistent results, and allow users to retry alternate tag locations when the initial placement is not acceptable. These features make the add-in useful not only for production drafting, but also for BIM quality control and documentation review.

Product Roundup: W7k

From the Autodesk Design and Make Marketplace:

W7k is passionate about making Revit add-ons, supporting teams in their Bim journey and writing code (python, c# & dynamo) for the AEC industry. We also provide custom solutions for specific needs and challenges in the AEC industry, such as generative design, parametric modelling, simulation, analysis, and fulfilling BIM requirements.

Our add-ons help clients to automate tasks, optimize workflows, enhance visualization, and integrate data across different platforms. With time, we hope to make more plugins available to the public on [the] Autodesk Store.

We are always looking for new opportunities and challenges to improve our skills and deliver value to our clients. We are also committed to learning and staying updated on the latest trends and developments in the AEC industry.

You can visit us at: w7k.pl

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Drafter

Collection of 180+ scripts to make your work faster and more precise! BY A DRAFTER, FOR DRAFTERS! | $16/year

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Boxer

Boxer for Autodesk® Revit® is your friend while working with section boxes. It offers full control over them, ability to save them to memory and allows you to effortlessly switch between 2D to 3D. | $14/year

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Free Extra: Tools to Measure Total Lengths, Perimeters and Areas of Elements

Summary

Extra is a free productivity add-in for Autodesk® Revit® focused on automating small but repetitive measurement and calculation tasks that many architects, engineers, designers, and BIM users still perform manually. The add-in is built around a simple idea: users should not need to leave Revit or use an external calculator for basic totals such as line lengths, filled-region areas, room areas, or perimeters. Instead, Extra provides quick commands that calculate selected geometry and report the results directly, helping users save time during everyday production work.

Core Purpose

The core purpose of Extra is to remove unnecessary manual math from Revit workflows. W7k describes the tool as a response to the common situation where project teams manually add the lengths of lines or calculate areas and perimeters using a calculator. Extra addresses those small friction points by providing lightweight commands that perform the calculations automatically from selected Revit elements. While the individual tasks may be simple, automating them can improve speed, reduce transcription errors, and make day-to-day documentation and checking tasks more efficient.

Key Capabilities

• Measure length of selected lines: Adds together the lengths of selected Revit lines and reports the total length.
• Measure total area of selected regions: Calculates the combined area of selected filled regions.
• Measure outside perimeter of selected regions: Calculates the exterior boundary length of selected regions, focusing on outside loops.
• Measure total perimeter of selected regions: Adds together the full perimeter values of selected filled regions.
• Measure total area of selected rooms: Calculates the combined area of selected rooms.
• Measure total perimeter of selected rooms: Adds together the perimeter values of selected rooms.
• Copy results to the clipboard: The calculated values are automatically copied to the clipboard, making it easier to paste results into notes, schedules, spreadsheets, markups, or correspondence.
• DWG import warning: Version 1.2 adds a warning that alerts users when DWG files are being imported into a project, helping teams avoid an action that can introduce coordination, file-size, and standards issues if not managed carefully.

Viewer: Create and Document Room Elevations

Summary

Viewer is a productivity add-in for Autodesk® Revit® designed to automate the creation of interior views and the placement of those views onto sheets. Its current focus is generating internal elevations from selected rooms, a task that can be highly repetitive on interior design, fit-out, hospitality, workplace, residential, and tenant-improvement projects. Instead of manually creating elevation markers, configuring each view, naming the outputs, creating sheets, and arranging views one by one, Viewer allows users to select rooms and let the add-in generate the required elevation documentation with controlled settings.

Core Purpose

The main purpose of Viewer is to reduce the time and manual effort required to create consistent room-based elevation packages. Interior elevation production can become tedious when a project contains dozens or hundreds of rooms, especially when each room requires four elevations, a consistent view template, coordinated naming, sheet placement, and title-line alignment. Viewer addresses this by turning a repetitive drafting and documentation task into a guided automation workflow that gives users control over both the views and the resulting sheets.

Key Capabilities

• Generate internal elevations from selected rooms: Viewer automates the creation of room-based interior elevations, helping eliminate repetitive manual view setup.
• Choose elevation type: Users can select the elevation type used during generation, supporting better alignment with project or office documentation standards.
• Apply view templates: The add-in can apply the correct view template to generated views, helping keep graphics, annotations, and display settings consistent.
• Control view naming: Viewer provides controls for naming generated views so the output can follow project conventions and remain easy to organize in the Project Browser.
• Handle rotated rooms: When rooms are rotated, Viewer can align the generated views so the elevation set remains coordinated with the room orientation.
• Create sheets automatically: The add-in can create sheets using a selected title block, reducing the need to manually prepare documentation sheets after the views are generated.
• Control sheet quantity and sheet names: Users can manage the number of sheets and their naming, which is especially useful when producing many room-elevation sets.
• Position elevations on sheets: Viewer lets users control the placement of all four elevations, helping standardize sheet layout and presentation.
• Align title lines: The tool includes options to align title lines and control their length, supporting cleaner and more consistent sheet documentation.
• Set top and bottom extents: Users can control elevation top and bottom limits based on offsets from selected levels, allowing the views to reflect the desired vertical range.
• Extend elevations left and right: Viewer can extend elevation views horizontally to capture the required room context.
• Save layout settings: The add-in can save title block positions and sheet sizes, reducing setup time for repeated use.

Leveler: “The Ultimate Tool to Control Levels and Grids”

Summary

Leveler is a productivity add-in for Autodesk® Revit® developed by W7k that provides a focused set of tools for managing levels and grids more efficiently. Its primary value is helping users change element level assignments without unintentionally moving elements in the model. In typical Revit workflows, changing a reference level can require careful offset calculations to keep elements in place. Leveler automates that process by recalculating and applying the correct offsets, allowing users to reassign levels while preserving existing element elevations.

Core Purpose

The add-in is designed for Revit modelers, BIM coordinators, project teams, and production users who need better control over model levels, level names, and grid naming. It is especially useful on projects where elements were modeled against the wrong reference levels, where level naming standards need to be cleaned up, or where multiple levels and grids must be renamed or adjusted consistently. Instead of manually reviewing each element and calculating offset values, Leveler helps automate repetitive level-management tasks and reduces the chance of coordination errors.

Key Capabilities

• Reassign reference levels: Change the level associated with selected elements while keeping their physical location and elevation unchanged.
• Automatic offset calculation: Let the add-in calculate the correct offset values instead of requiring users to determine them manually.
• Closest-level assignment: Automatically assign elements to the closest level based on their elevation.
• Closest level above or below: Assign elements to the nearest level above or below their current position, depending on the desired modeling standard.
• Move level assignment up or down: Change selected elements to the level above or below their current reference level.
• Rename levels: Use tools to rename levels through menus, find-and-replace operations, upward or downward renumbering, and prefix or suffix additions.
• Edit multiple levels: Move multiple levels at the same time, which can help when making coordinated adjustments to project datums.
• Rename grids: Apply similar naming operations to grid lines, including menu-based renaming, upward or downward renumbering, and prefix or suffix additions.

Boxer: “Your Friend When Working with Section Boxes”

Summary

Boxer for Autodesk® Revit® is a productivity add-in designed to make section box creation, adjustment, reuse, and view coordination faster and more intuitive. It focuses on one of the most common navigation and coordination challenges in Revit: moving efficiently between 2D documentation views and 3D model views while maintaining precise control over the area of the model being reviewed. Instead of relying only on standard section box workflows, Boxer gives users a more direct and flexible way to isolate model areas, convert views, and manage section box geometry with fewer manual steps.

Workflow Purpose

The primary purpose of Boxer is to help Revit users work more confidently with section boxes during modeling, coordination, review, and documentation tasks. Section boxes are essential for isolating parts of a model, but they can become time-consuming to create, adjust, rotate, or reuse. Boxer streamlines these actions by placing section box controls into a more accessible workflow, allowing users to focus on reviewing design intent, resolving coordination issues, and navigating the model rather than repeatedly resetting view extents manually.

Key Capabilities

• 2D-to-3D view conversion: Boxer enables users to quickly transition from 2D views such as plans, sections, or details into focused 3D views, helping teams validate design conditions spatially instead of relying only on flat documentation views.
• Section box creation from views: Users can generate section boxes directly from view-based selections, making it easier to isolate the exact portion of the model they are working on.
• Section box memory: Boxer allows section boxes to be saved in memory for quick reuse, reducing repetitive setup when reviewing the same areas across multiple tasks or coordination sessions.
• Geometry control: The add-in supports moving, mirroring, aligning, rotating, resizing, and resetting section boxes, giving users more control over how model areas are isolated and presented.
• View-focused productivity: By simplifying section box setup and navigation, Boxer helps users move between analysis, modeling, and documentation workflows with fewer clicks and less friction.

Drafter: 180+ Productivity Scripts “By a Drafter, for Drafters”

Summary

Drafter is a Revit-focused productivity toolset designed to improve the speed, precision, and overall quality of drawing production. Created “by a drafter, for drafters,” it packages more than 180 Dynamo-based scripts into an accessible collection intended for users who want the benefits of automation without needing to learn visual programming or scripting. Its core purpose is to help teams produce cleaner, more consistent, and better-organized documentation with less repetitive manual effort.

Purpose and Design Philosophy

The tool is built around the idea that high-quality drawings depend on clarity, consistency, and attention to detail. It targets common drafting frustrations such as misaligned tags, inconsistent annotation placement, poorly organized views, and visual issues that become noticeable in exported PDFs. Rather than requiring users to build their own Dynamo workflows, Drafter turns those automations into easy-to-use tools that support everyday documentation tasks.

Key Capabilities

Drafter includes a broad set of scripts that assist with many parts of the Revit documentation process, including title lines, project browser organization, vertical views, viewports, sheets, scope boxes, title blocks, legends, schedules, revisions, text notes, tags, dimensions, filled regions, and family editor tasks. The collection is organized into 20 tool groups, making it easier for users to find scripts related to a specific type of drafting or documentation work.

Workflow Benefits

• Faster drawing production: Automates repetitive documentation tasks that would otherwise require manual setup, adjustment, or cleanup.
• Greater precision: Helps reduce visual inconsistencies such as misaligned tags, text notes, leaders, view elements, and other annotation-related issues.
• Improved consistency: Supports more standardized drawing output across sheets, views, tags, notes, dimensions, and schedules.
• Reduced need for Dynamo expertise: Gives users access to Dynamo-powered workflows through ready-made tools rather than requiring them to create scripts from scratch.
• Better documentation quality: Helps drafters and BIM teams produce drawings that appear more polished, organized, and professional.