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Friday, June 6, 2025

ClimateStudio — Advanced Daylighting, Electric Lighting, and Thermal Analysis

ClimateStudio is the fastest and most accurate environmental performance analysis software for the Architecture,  Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector. Its simulation workflows help designers and consultants optimize buildings for energy efficiency, daylight access, electric lighting performance, visual and thermal comfort, and other measures of occupant health.

FAST AND ACCURATE

Built on EnergyPlus and a novel RADIANCE-based path tracing technology, ClimateStudio is the fastest and most accurate simulation software on the market. Yes, faster than cloud-based tools. Finally, reliable results at 1000x the speed.

Thursday, June 5, 2025

Product Roundup – CTC Software Part 1: BIM Project Suite

About CTC Software

We’ve been working as a Revit Solutions Provider since before Autodesk acquired Revit Technologies. Our team of architects, engineers, and software developers work to create leading productivity tools on top of the Revit, Civil 3D and Autodesk Forge platforms. Custom application development and software integration keep our deep bench of full-stack developers sharp, working exclusively on AEC industry solutions. CTC is a member of the Autodesk Developer Network and has been making add-ins available for Revit and Civil 3D since 2010.

Our software development services can help your company maximize productivity with custom applications and tools. Our experienced development team can create plug-ins, standalone applications, or entire platforms which integrate Autodesk technology, including Forge, into existing workflows and processes. We work with your team to identify and create the right solution for your needs and budget. Our vast experience in the AEC space, along with our full-stack development team ensures you are working with the right company to deliver your project on-time, to specification, and on budget.

BIM Project Suite

BIM Project Tools Make Everyday Revit® Tasks Easier. The BIM Project Suite™ for Autodesk Revit contains over 19 of the best Revit add-ins available. This collection helps users automate routine tasks, analyze complex modeling scenarios, extract model data and much more in a lot less time, all within the Revit environment. BIM Project Suite is meant for everyday users of all skill levels, and is used by firms of all sizes. | USD 410.00/year

  • Update parametric data in Revit® models as easily as editing a spreadsheet 
  • Manage project revisions more efficiently 
  • Create schedules and tables just Ike Microsoft® Excel® 
  • Quickly and accurately apply standards to all Revit® project models 
  • Manage rooms and spaces more easily and effectively 
  • Analyze Revit® project models for occupant safety and efficiency 
  • Find and select Revit® project elements quickly 
  • Renumber doors, rooms and other elements
This product is compatible with Revit® 2025 as well as 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024

Purchase or download a free trial of the BIM Project Suite for 14 days. After the trial period, the free tools will continue to work.

Thursday, February 6, 2025

IMAGINiT Utilities for Revit 2025 Includes More than 50 Tools!

From the IMAGINiT website:

IMAGINiT Utilities for Revit

The Indispensable Time Savers for the Autodesk Revit Platform

All of the IMAGINiT Utilities for Revit are designed to enhance your capabilities within Autodesk Revit. Created by IMAGINiT’s software development team in response to common client requests, these utilities seamlessly integrate into Revit, streamlining tasks and eliminating the need for manual, time-consuming work. The IMAGINiT Utilities are available in Standalone or Network versions, each available as a subscription or perpetual license. Annual licenses are available free to clients who have an annual or multi-year subscription to Autodesk products with IMAGINiT.

More Than 50 tools to Improve your Revit Experience!

Schedule from Excel

The new Excel Import feature caters to a wide range of Revit users, allowing easy integration of nonBIM data into the building information model (BIM). This tool effortlessly incorporates Excel checklists, abbreviations, general notes, keynotes, and other data into the model, with fast and precise calculations, eliminating countless hours to recreate data

Project/Template Report

Power users, such as BIM managers and project coordinators will appreciate the Project/Template Report tool which automatically documents necessary data, eliminating manually running comparisons and documenting standards

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Speckle – The Free Platform For 3D Data

From the Speckle website:

The world runs on 3D: designers, engineers, hackers and entire organizations rely on us for interoperability, automation and collaboration to deliver better, together.

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RV DeepClean – All Revit Model Cleaning Functions in One Place

From the RV Boost website:

Is your Revit file size getting out of control? Use RV DeepClean to make your Revit model light, fast and easy to share again! Get a free trial below to enjoy:

Over 40 (and growing!) battle-tested cleaning functions, All in one place,

Options to clean your Revit file as much or as little as you want,

Applying your BIM standards while reducing file size.

GET IT FREE HERE!

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Pirros – Serious Detail Management

From the Pirros website:

It’s time to modernize your firm’s detail management

Pirros is a modern approach to detail management – analyzing the thousands of new details you design every year, and aggregating the right ones into a cloud-based library of details.

Your details have the potential to be your firm’s superpower

Only a fraction of information gets captured in your firm's detail library. Pirros unlocks all the information that you currently can only access by digging through past projects.

Efficiency

Our advanced search engine allows you to search all the metadata associated with a detail to locate it in under a minute, then pull it into Revit just as quickly — no waiting for a model to open or upgrade.

Autodesk Content Catalog – Centralize BIM Content with Cloud-Based Digital Asset Management

From the Autodesk website:

Improve efficiency and reduce rework

How can Content Catalog help you?

Content Catalog is a cloud-based digital asset management tool that enables customers to easily manage, distribute, and find the most up-to-date versions of their BIM content, like Revit families and AutoCAD blocks. It’s a single source of truth for storing, versioning, and accessing content and data—accessible at no cost to users with existing subscriptions that include Autodesk Docs.

Why use Content Catalog? 

Centralize digital assets 

Gain better control and accessibility by connecting your assets in a common data environment.

Unlock reliable data 

Avoid unnecessary rework by ensuring team members have access to the latest approved version of each digital asset.

Find content faster

Save time with a robust search system that uses a variety of filters and display options to locate BIM content quickly.

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Autodesk Informed Design for Revit – Design with Known-Manufacturable Building Products

From the Autodesk website:

Autodesk Revit 2024 or a more recent version, as well as Autodesk Docs are required to use Informed Design for Revit.

Download now

What is Informed Design for Revit?

Empower your designs with customizable, manufacturable building products for unparalleled certainty and quality. 

  • Template Discovery: Explore building product templates for seamlessly incorporating manufacturing-level detail into your design files.
  • Customization: Tailor building products to align with your building's requirements, ensuring compliance with manufacturers' specifications.
  • Certainty: Confirm design decisions are accurate and manufacturable to reduce project risk and prevent errors. 

See Revit 2024 system requirements:

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Free Data Exchange for Dynamo (Early Access)

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The Autodesk® Dynamo® Connector allows you to create, share, and bring in exchanged data to and from other Autodesk and non-Autodesk applications, such as Autodesk® Revit®, Autodesk® Civil 3D®, Autodesk® Inventor®, Rhino, Grasshopper, Tekla Structures, and Power Automate.

For more information on how to get started and work with Data Exchanges, such as creating, updating, and loading the latest Data Exchanges, Please visit the Documentation section under resources on Autodesk Feedback Community Portal. 

Authentication: 

This app uses 3-legged Authentication for accessing ACC Accounts and projects for creating and loading exchanges.  

Monday, August 19, 2024

PushIt!

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

PushIt! will allow you to move elements to closer obstacles in a 3D View.

It will stop any visible element in the selected 3d view.

You can use the bounding box as the limit and also apply offset from the detected collision point.

Movements are restricted to horizontal and vertical main directions.

Sunday, August 18, 2024

4D BIM – Simulate the Work Schedules of Projects Within Revit

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Simulate the work schedule of your project (4D) in Autodesk® Revit®. Now you can create a S-Curve graphic of your project. 

Also you will be able to save drafting views with you Gantt graphic.

Export your 4D programming from Autodesk® Navisworks® or create it in Revit from scratch

Option 1:

In any Navisworks project, define your Planning 4D. Now you can export the 4D schedule of your project from Navisworks to Revit and view the execution of your project in your source BIM model:

Step 1: Export the information from Navisworks.

Step 2: From Revit load the information to your project.

Step 3: Simulate the schedule of your project and visualize the items in the form of a table and Gantt chart (4D)

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Our Newest Advertiser – CTC Software!

CTC Software has become Revit Add-ons latest advertiser, and the first to take advantage of our donation in lieu of pay offer. The offer is simple: instead of paying Revit Add-ons for advertising, donate the same amount to the charity of your choice. CTC donated to Meals on Wheels, and I must say, it made us feel good–as I'm sure it must have made them.

Our latest offer includes a 50% discount, so, if you've ever wanted to advertise on Revit Add-ons, there's never been a better time!

This is a return for CTC, as they advertised with us in the past, and we're happy to have them back! We've posted extensively about their products here on Revit Add-ons, their powerful suites, most of which include free tools. We just realized though that we've never done a product roundup of their offerings. We'll correct that oversight soon, maybe over the coming weekend. With their array of tools, it'll take awhile. Anyway, look for that in the coming days.

Welcome CTC Software, and thank you!

Want to know more about advertising on Revit Add-ons? Hit up this page. And remember, we're offering 50% off the published rates!

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

NCeption Viewer – For Use With NCeption Exporter

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

For use with NCEPTION EXPORTER (Sold Separately), Nception provides a fast, easy-to-use solution to take your projects to VR with a click of a button. 

Working with the light and materials settings in Autodesk® Revit® Nception lets you visualize and explore your designs in first-person, interactive 3D.

Perfect for testing various design scenarios before committing them to plan. Nception works on projects of all sizes and disciplines.

In Nception viewer access all the information about an object just by selecting it while you walk through your model.

Nception helps you quickly move from Revit to real-time with absolutely no additional effort. 

Understand your projects as never before and get things right from the start with Nception.

Viewer is now available for all Windows-based PCs.

Nception Exporter – Take Projects to Interactive, First-Person 3D Models That Include All the Project Data

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Note: Prerequisite Nception Viewer  app to be installed (Free app, download separately)

Nception provides a fast, easy-to-use solution to take your projects from Autodesk® Revit® to an interactive, first-person 3D model that includes all of the project data. 

Working with the light and materials settings in Autodesk® Revit®, Nception lets you visualize and explore your designs in first person, interactive 3D. Perfect for testing various design scenarios before committing them to plan.

Nception works on projects of all sizes and disciplines. In the Nception viewer access all the information about an object just by selecting it while you walk through your model.

Nception helps you quickly move from Revit to real-time with absolutely no additional effort.

Understand your projects as never before and get things right from the start with Nception. The Viewer is now available for all Windows-based  PCs (here).

Prerequisite: The Nception Viewer app must be installed to explore your .vim files

Full User Guide now available!

Thursday, July 25, 2024

TabManager – Colorize and Wrap Project Model Tabs Into Multiple Rows

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

TabManager: Open up new horizons in tab management!

In a world of rapidly changing technology and the need for prompt access to information, our latest TabManager add-on offers incredible possibilities for efficient work in Autodesk.

Color Highlighting: Distinguish project tabs from family tabs with intuitive color solutions. Active tabs stand out especially, so you can always quickly switch to the required document.