BILT NA 2019 – Boost Your BIM's Harry Mattison is Granting Revit API Wishes!

Who wants to play the #BILTNA Revit #API wishlist game this year?
Send your ideas about how to make #Revit better, faster, easier and some will get coded and posted for free at https://t.co/mP0eNn9dTn
Wishes from past years at https://t.co/jIGJdH2KSK

— Boost Your BIM (@BoostYourBIM) July 18, 2019

Place View – Place Multiple Views on Sheets Automatically

From the Autodesk App Store:

The version 1.0.1 of Q'Apps for Autodesk® Revit® has added the Place View tool.

This tool is designed to quickly place multi Views on a Sheet automatically, or place Views at a pick point on a Sheet.

This tool has a friendly interface, is easy to use, and is highly effective for work.

The interface of Place View tool.

Duplicate Sheet

From the Autodesk App Store:

The version 1.0.1 of Q'Apps for Autodesk® Revit® has added the Duplicate Sheet tool.

This tool is designed to quickly duplicate Sheet with many features:

• Duplicate the selected Sheet into multiple Sheets to have the same parameter values as the original Sheet.       
• Create at the same time multiple Sheets from Sheet Number and Sheet Name on Excel.
• Automatically set the Sheet Number and Sheet Name for new Sheets.
• Allows copying Views/Legends/Schedules/ Text/Revision Cloud from original Sheets to new Sheets.

This tool has a friendly interface, easy to use and highly effective for work.

This is the location of Duplicate Sheet tool in Q’Apps Solutions.

Rename View

From the Autodesk App Store:

The version 1.0.1 of Q'Apps for Autodesk® Revit® has added the Rename View tool.

This tool is designed to quickly rename View and includes these features: add a prefix to View Name, add a suffix to View Name and find & replace text value in View Name.

This tool has a friendly interface, easy to use and highly effective for work.

This is the location of Rename View tool in Q’Apps Solutions.

Rename Sheet

From the Autodesk App Store:

The version 1.0.1 of Q'Apps for Autodesk® Revit® has added the Rename Sheet tool.

This tool is designed to quickly rename Sheet Number and Sheet Name. It includes adding a prefix, adding a suffix to Sheet Number or Sheet Name, and find & replace text value in Sheet Number and Sheet Name.

This tool has a friendly interface, is easy to use and highly effective for work.

This is the location of Rename Sheet tool in Q’Apps Solutions.

Duplicate View

From the Autodesk App Store:

The version 1.0.1 of Q'Apps for Autodesk® Revit® has added the Duplicate View tool.

This tool is designed to quickly duplicate views with features. It allows you to enter the number of views to be duplicated, and customize the name of the views to be created.

This tool has a friendly interface, is easy to use and highly effective for work.

The interface of Duplicate View tool.

Free Transfer Template

From the Autodesk App Store:

The Transfer Template add-in for Autodesk® Revit® is a free application which helps you to transfer/copy only selected view templates from a Revit linked document file to the current Revit document with a few simple clicks. It is compatible with all recently released Revit versions (tested on Revit 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020).

Transfer Template on Revit 2020

Free BIMaven – Batch Reload Revit Links

From the Autodesk App Store:

This app is a productivity improvement tool. It is a tool that consolidates all the useful functions that we as BIM specialist require and use on a daily basis.

We developed this tool based on our workflow, however, feel free to join us with our plugin development.

We will spend time to develop plugins and we hope to provide value to fellow BIM users as well.

Currently, we have the following function in place:

• To solve recurring usability issues with batch reloading Autodesk® Revit® links.

We plan to add on the following functions as well:

• CAD files batch reload
• Generation of the site boundary
• Clash detection management

So do join us and stay tuned to further developments.

Roundup – For July 1-7, 2019, New and Updated Revit-Related Add-Ins on the Autodesk App Store

Revit

New

Batch Join , Unjoin Elements with custom order
A tool to help you join and unjoin quickly multiple elements selected by Category, Family and Types | USD 8.00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 7/2/2019 – The first release.

Updated

CAD Files Explorer 2019
Instantly shows, selects, or deletes all linked or imported CAD files in Autodesk® Revit®. Lists and opens all views & sheets where a CAD file is visible. Scans all loaded families for nested CAD | USD 7.95/M
★★★★★ (3 reviews)
About This Version: Version 2019.2, 7/5/2019 – Family Scan feature added.

Splashtop Streamer v3.3.2.0

From the Autodesk App Store:

Secure Remote 3D Desktop solution, optimized for NVIDIA Quadro® / NVIDIA GeForce®. Remote access your 3D workstations from any computer (Windows, MAC, Linux) and mobile device (iOS, Android, Windows Phone). Both On-premise / self-hosted and cloud versions available.

• Winner of NVIDIA's "Company to Watch" award in 2013 and 2014.
• Blazing Speed – NVIDIA optimized remote desktop app, supporting 3D / HD at 60 fps+, sub-30ms latency.
• Optional:  On-Premise / Self-hosted option offering Active Directory integration and multi-factor authentication, with no data goes across the Internet.
• Simple – Just log in and connect; seamless remote access across any network -- 3G / 4G, WIFI, firewalls.
• Broad device support -- iOS, Android, Windows, MAC, Linux, Chromebook, etc.
• Multi-monitor to multi-monitor support for applicable services

iPad Remote Access 3D Apps

Batch Join, Unjoin Elements with Custom Order

From the Autodesk App Store:

Autodesk® Revit® automatically joins the elements with its default rule. If you want to switch the join order between elements you have to do it manually.

If you have a project with thousands of elements that need to be switch joined, this would be a huge task.

This tool will help you to quickly Join and Unjoin as many elements as you like with your defined order.

The main User Interface

Introducing CadMouse Pro Wireless & CadMouse Pro Wireless Left

Our good friends at 3Dconnexion, the world leader in advanced 3D navigation devices and makers of the SpaceMouse and CadMouse product lines, have released two new versions of their mice designed for CAD professionals, the CadMouse Pro Wireless and CadMouse Pro Wireless Left.

These two new devices join the original CadMouse Wireless and the (wired) CadMouse, which, shortly after its release, we reviewed here.

The new CadMouse Pro Wireless is a full-sized mouse for the modern workstation, as is the CadMouse Pro Wireless Left, which holds the distinction of being the first CadMouse designed specifically for left-handed users.

Shortly, we'll be reviewing the CadMouse Pro Wireless, along with the CadMouse Wireless, SpaceMouse Enterprise, and SpaceMouse Wireless. Look for our review to drop early next week soon. In the meantime, check out all the great 3Dconnexion products on 3Dconnexion.com.

The CadMouse Pro Wireless and CadMouse Pro Wireless Left are priced at $119.00 US each.

For continued reading: 3Dconnexion's CadMouse Pro Wireless press release

Coming to Seattle? (Updated)

By Tim Grimm
July 11, 2019

DBEI, the Digital Built Environment Institute, is having its 2019 North American events in Seattle next week. These are:

• July 15-16 – DBEI Hackathon NA
• July 17-18 – Design Technology Summit 2019
• July 17-18 – Data Day 2019
• July 18-19 – BCS (Building Content Summit) NA 2019
• July 18-20 – BILT NA 2019 

That's quite a schedule of events! And BILT is consistently my favorite technology conference of the year.

Seattle is my adopted hometown, so I'd be remiss if I didn't provide some information about this beautiful city for our out-of-town friends. First off, expect the weather to be mild and very pleasant. The current forecast calls for temperatures in the 67°-76° F range (19°-25° C), with plenty of sun breaks. There is rain forecast for late in the week, but, honestly, it's too early to rely on that. If it does rain, our rainfall is usually light, as opposed to the torrential downpours often portrayed in film. Proof of this is that Seattleites almost never carry umbrellas.

For sightseeing, the premier attraction is of course the iconic Space Needle. Built for the 1962 World's Fair, the Space Needle has an observation deck at 520 ft (160 m). On a clear day, not only can Mount Rainier be seen, but also Mount Baker to the north and even Oregon's Mount Hood to the south.

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.