Mostra: Parameter Colorization

Summary

Mostra is an Autodesk Revit add-in designed to help BIM teams quickly visualize model data by grouping elements according to shared parameter values and applying color-coded graphics across the model. Instead of manually creating filters, assigning colors, or building separate coordination views, users can select a category, choose a parameter, pick a color palette, and generate visual results in seconds.

Core Purpose

The primary purpose of Mostra is to make model information easier to understand, review, and communicate. Revit models often contain valuable parameter data, but reviewing that data element by element or building visual filters manually can be slow and error-prone. Mostra turns parameter values into immediate visual groupings, making it possible to see patterns, gaps, inconsistencies, and distribution across a model without writing filter rules by hand.

Workflow and Interface

When Revit loads, Mostra adds two ribbon buttons to the AvantLeap Tools tab: MOSTRA and MOSTRA PRO. The standard MOSTRA button supports a focused, single-category workflow. Users choose one element category, select one visible parameter such as Level, Phase, Fire Rating, Assembly Code, or another available Revit parameter, choose a color palette, select an operation, and click Execute.

MOSTRA PRO expands the workflow by supporting multiple categories and named presets. This allows BIM teams to save recurring configurations and reload them in future sessions with one click. Presets are especially useful for repeated coordination checks, design reviews, or quality-control workflows that rely on the same categories, parameters, palettes, and output operations.

Visualization Operations

Mostra offers four main operations: Create Views, Apply Filters, Apply Overrides, and Reset View. Create Views can generate isolated 3D views based on parameter groups, helping users separate model elements by shared values. Apply Filters creates persistent parametric filters so the visualization can remain part of the Revit view setup. Apply Overrides directly changes graphics in the active view for quick visual analysis. Reset View removes the applied visualization changes when the review is complete.

Schema: View Layout Manager For Project to Project Organization

Summary

Schema is a Revit add-in designed to streamline BIM project setup by automating the reuse of standard sheet and viewport arrangements. It addresses a common source of repetitive work for BIM managers, template administrators, and project teams: rebuilding the same drawing set structure on every new model. Instead of manually laying out sheets, viewports, and schedules project after project, teams can define a standard arrangement once and apply it consistently across future Revit models.

Core Purpose

In many BIM environments, drawing set organization is standardized across projects, but the setup process still requires substantial manual effort. Sheet names, viewport placements, schedule locations, and drawing arrangements are often recreated from scratch even when a proven layout already exists. Schema captures the structure of an established drawing set and converts it into a portable schema file that can be reused without transferring model geometry, project-specific content, or full template files.

Two-Step Workflow

Schema works through a two-step process: first capturing a layout from a source model, then assembling that layout in a target model. This approach separates drawing set standards from project-specific data, allowing teams to maintain reusable documentation layouts that can be safely shared, versioned, and applied across different projects.

Edit Schema: Capture the Source Layout

The workflow begins in a Revit model that already contains the desired sheet and viewport arrangement. Using the Edit Schema command, Schema scans all sheets, viewports, and schedule instances and displays the complete drawing set on an interactive canvas. Viewports appear as gold rectangles, while schedule instances appear in blue, giving users a visual representation of the exact geometric arrangement of their documentation set.

Within the Schema Editor, users can review the detected layout and make adjustments to viewport or schedule positions if needed. Once the layout is approved, it is saved as a portable .schema.json file. This file stores sheet names, viewport positions, viewport sizes, view types, and schedule placement data, but it does not include model geometry or sensitive project-specific information. As a result, the schema can be safely shared across teams, archived for future use, or managed in version-control systems.

Spazio: Extract and Regenerate Rooms Across Floors, Buildings or Projects

Summary

Spazio is a Revit workflow tool designed to eliminate one of the most repetitive tasks in architectural practice: rebuilding room layouts that have already been designed, coordinated, and documented in other projects. Instead of manually recreating common room types—such as hotel guestrooms, hospital wards, apartment units, or other repeatable spatial modules—Spazio allows teams to capture the layout once and reuse it across future projects.

Core Purpose

In many architectural and BIM workflows, recurring room types require significant duplicated effort. Designers and modelers often need to redraw boundaries, reposition furniture, reload or re-specify families, and place fixtures and equipment from scratch even when the layout has already been resolved elsewhere. Spazio addresses this inefficiency by turning a completed room layout into a portable package that can be stored, shared, filtered, previewed, and placed in another Revit model.

Extract and Export Workflow

The workflow begins inside a Revit model containing placed rooms. With the Extract & Export command, Spazio scans the model and identifies each room along with the related layout information. It collects furniture, lighting fixtures, electrical equipment, plumbing fixtures, mechanical equipment, and boundary walls associated with the selected rooms. The extraction window presents the available rooms with their areas and element counts, helping users decide which layouts are worth packaging.

After selecting the desired rooms and assigning a filename, Spazio exports each room as a standalone .spazio file. These files use a plain JSON format, making them portable, readable, shareable, and suitable for archiving or version control. This approach allows firms to build reusable room libraries without locking the information into a single Revit project.

Enlazo: Parameter Link Propagation

Summary

Enlazo is an add-in for Autodesk Revit designed to automate the transfer of parameter values from parent elements, such as structural columns, beams, walls, or slabs, to nearby child elements in any Revit category with writable instance parameters. Instead of requiring users to manually copy values from one element to another, Enlazo uses spatial proximity detection to identify related elements and apply the appropriate parameter values in a controlled, repeatable workflow.

Purpose and Problem Solved

The add-in addresses a common BIM coordination problem: many Revit elements need parameter values that reflect their relationship to nearby structural or spatial elements, but those relationships are not always explicitly stored in the Revit data model. In typical workflows, BIM coordinators, structural engineers, or MEP coordinators must visually inspect the model, determine which elements belong to the same zone or structural relationship, and then enter values one element at a time. This process is slow, repetitive, and prone to inconsistency, especially on projects with hundreds or thousands of related elements.

Workflow

1. Select the parent category and the parent parameter to read.
2. Click Find Parent and select the source element in the model. Enlazo highlights the parent element in orange and displays its current parameter value.
3. Select the child category and the writable child parameter that should receive the value.
4. Click Find Children. Enlazo samples points along the parent geometry and detects nearby elements within the configured search radius, highlighting detected children in blue.
5. Review the detected child elements in the tree view, remove any elements that should not be updated, or add elements manually when needed.
6. Confirm the value to assign, then click Save Data. Enlazo writes the selected value to all selected child elements in a single Revit transaction.

For a typical parent element, this workflow can be completed in less than a minute, making it significantly faster than manual parameter entry across repeated or connected model elements.

Ecco: Logistics Planning

Ecco is a Revit add-in that creates simplified logistics proxies from assemblies, families, and groups by converting their combined geometry into unified DirectShape elements. Each proxy is represented as a single solid, making it easier to support quantity takeoff, delivery sequencing, procurement tracking, and truck-loading workflows directly inside Revit without exposing the full complexity of the design model.

The workflow begins with Create Proxies. Users select assemblies, family instances, or groups, and Ecco recursively gathers all subcomponent solids from the selected elements. It then boolean-unions that geometry into one solid, aligns the resulting proxy according to the source element’s facing direction, and places it at a user-defined staging offset. Each proxy is linked back to its original source element using Revit ExtensibleStorage, creating a bidirectional relationship that helps keep the logistics model connected to the design model.

The Rotate Proxy tool supports visual staging and truck-fit review by allowing selected proxies to be rotated in 90-degree increments around the X, Y, or Z axis. Because the tool is modeless, users can keep it open while rotating multiple proxies without repeatedly restarting the command.

The Set to Truck workflow is designed for fast assignment of proxies to trucks or containers. When opened, it automatically isolates proxy elements in the active view so users can focus only on logistics objects. Proxies can then be assigned continuously to a truck or container ID without reopening the window for each assignment, and the view is restored when the workflow is closed.

The Create Schedule command generates a Revit schedule named Ecco — Logistics Schedule, listing proxy elements by truck or container assignment. This allows logistics and procurement teams to review delivery groupings directly in Revit instead of relying on manually maintained spreadsheets.

Famiglia: Composite Family Round-Trip

Famiglia is a Revit add-in designed to streamline composite family creation, separation, and placement workflows without scripting or manual Family Editor work. It provides three ribbon-based tools: Join Family, Separate Family, and Place Along Curve.

Key benefits include a complete round-trip composite family workflow, accurate preservation of position and orientation, automatic Generic Model template discovery, configurable curve-based placement, and diagnostic log files for troubleshooting.

Join Family combines multiple selected project instances into a new composite family file. It automatically creates the family document, loads each selected component, preserves their positions and rotations relative to the group centroid, saves the new family temporarily, and reloads it into the project at the correct location. This reduces a workflow that might normally take 30–60 minutes manually to roughly 30 seconds.

Separate Family reverses this process by breaking a composite family instance back into its original individual components. It restores each component to its exact world position while preserving horizontal rotation and elevation. Once all eligible components are placed successfully, the composite family is removed. Components that cannot be placed by coordinate, such as some face-based elements, are skipped and reported with warnings.

Place Along Curve lets users select a model curve, choose a family type, and specify spacing in millimeters. The tool then places family instances evenly along the full curve length.

HMK Tools: Productivity Add-ins & AI for Revit

From the HMK Tools website:

The tools that should always be there.

A deep suite of productivity add-ins for Autodesk Revit, plus Pilot AI — an assistant that lives inside Revit and drives Revit, AutoCAD, and Civil 3D from your favorite LLM. All the things your design software should already do, in one place. 

Pilot AI

Pilot Chat

An AI assistant that lives inside Revit.

Pilot Chat is a dockable chat panel right inside Revit. Ask questions about your model, run audits, and automate edits in plain language — without leaving the application. It understands your active document and can act on it directly.

Highlights

• Dockable pane that stays out of your way
• Analyze, automate, and audit your model conversationally
• Bring your own API key — you stay in control
• Works on any open Revit document

How Revit MCP works →

Ceiling Walls: Quickly Create Walls Between Two Ceilings

This plug-in quickly creates walls between two ceilings, making a normally time-consuming task much faster on large projects such as hotels. Users can generate the wall by setting a few options, and it can also create hidden linear lighting at the same time when needed. 

Free Custom Tile Hatch Pattern: Create Custom Tiled Patterns with Specified Gaps

This application creates custom tile hatch patterns with adjustable tile sizes and horizontal or vertical gaps. It helps contractors and designers accurately represent tile layouts on floors or walls by including the required spacing between tiles in the drawing.

PARS-BIM: Architectural Tools & MEP Tools Bundle

Over the past couple days, we posted about PARS-BIM: Architectural Tools and PARS-BIM: MEP Tools. Individual pricing is listed in those posts. The developer also offers a bundle of the two add-ins, priced at $40/month or $240/year. 

There's more information available on the Autodesk Design and Make Marketplace »

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PARS-BIM: MEP Tools

From the Autodesk Design and Make Marketplace:

Common Tools (Included in all versions)

• View & Template: Bulk duplicate views and easily import/export templates between projects.
• Sheet Automation: Batch-create sheets from Excel, auto-renumber, and manage sheet organization.
• Family Placement: Automatically place families onto CAD blocks, native, or linked ceilings.
• Selection & Filtering: Isolate elements via custom rules, group by level, and auto-generate V/G filters.
• Clash Coordination: Sync Navisworks reports or review internal clashes with direct 3D jump-to-clash navigation.
• Annotation & Data: Automate element marking, sync parameters, batch-tag, and clean up schematic line crosses.

MEP Tools (Exclusive)

• Routing & Automation: Model parallel pipes/conduits with spacing, convert 2D CAD lines to 3D pipes, and automate flexible transitions.
• Crossing Engine: Instantly bypass obstacles using 4 custom vertical routing methods (Single or Multi-elements).
• MEP Alignment & Connections: Match elevations/horizontal spacing, align systems in 3D, and connect branches at 45°/90° angles without leaving 3D views.
• MEP Assistant Utilities: Fix "Undefined" system type bugs, auto-add flanges/accessories to open ends, control pipe spacing, and access rapid Edit tools (Rotate/Extend/Elbow/Disconnect).

PARS-BIM: Architectural Tools

From the Autodesk Design and Make Marketplace:

Built on years of hands-on modelling experience, this plugin is designed to dramatically speed up your workflow while saving both time and costs. With powerful automation tools and smart features, it takes the repetitive, time-consuming tasks out of your hands—so you can focus on design.

Here’s what it can do for you:

Common Tools (Included in all versions)

• View & Template: Rapidly duplicate views and standardize templates across projects.
• Sheet Automation: Re-number, manage, and batch-create sheets from Excel.
• Family Placement: Precision-place families on CAD blocks or ceilings automatically.
• Selection & Filtering: Save selection rules, automate V/G filters, and group elements by level/type.
• Clash Coordination: Sync Navisworks clash reports or manage internal model collisions with instant navigation.
• Annotation & Data: Automate Marks, sync parameters, batch-tag elements, and clean up schematic line intersections.

Architecture Tools (Exclusive)

• Room & Interior: Auto-generate wall/floor finishes and visualize ceiling height legends.
• Auto-Modeling: Convert 2D CAD files to 3D BIM elements (walls/doors/windows) and auto-join structural components.
• Magic Dimensioning: One-click auto-dimensioning for Grids, Windows, and Wall openings.
• Level Automation: Instant creation of single or multi-level building structures based on custom rules. 

Qbitec: Frictionless Point Clouds in Revit

Qbitec enhances Revit workflows by enabling seamless point cloud streaming, visualization, and QA/QC validation for as-built data.

It supports large point clouds from many vendors and formats without requiring file splitting, detail reduction, or local copies.

Users can stream NavVis IVION point clouds and panoramas directly into Revit, including data from public URLs.

Its Quality Analysis tools compare point clouds against Revit geometry to check flatness, deviation, tolerances, clashes, and completeness.

Visualization features such as colored X-ray views, clipping regions, custom point cloud colors, and intensity blending make it easier to inspect model conditions.

Integrated panoramas can be displayed directly in the Revit 3D view and aligned with the model.

Geo-referencing and measurement tools help users align models to real-world coordinates and place reference points from point cloud data. 

Management of huge point clouds and panorama images

Kestrel Compliance Platform: Code Compliance Inside Revit

Kestrel integrates building code compliance checking directly into Revit, analyzing BIM models against applicable code requirements and highlighting potential issues early in design. It maps results to model elements, links each issue to cited code references, and includes Kestrel Chat, an AI assistant for exploring code questions. Built with licensed code content and ICC collaboration, Kestrel supports continuous compliance feedback, helping architects reduce rework and approach permitting with greater confidence while preserving professional judgment. 

Review compliance results directly within Revit.
Kestrel organizes identified issues by category

Understand why an issue was flagged. Kestrel provides
detailed explanations, relevant project context, code citation

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It's been awhile. Those familiar with Revit Add-ons might know that I suspended it when I joined Bentley Systems in 2020 (that proved to be an ill-advised career departure). My buddy Cord Ellison took over for a couple years, but that, unfortunately, ended. 

Back in 2024, I prematurely announced the return of the blog. That's because I had joined Woolpert as a BIM Coordinator (working on Mission Critical projects) and was free to post again. In fact, my hiring was in large part thanks to my past work here on Revit Add-ons! As such, this blog has continued to reward me. But, over those past two years, after an initial spurt, I've only posted sporadically (five times in 2025). What can I say? It's been hard man... But I refuse to let Revit Add-ons die.

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