Manage Families with Content|Studio

Content|Studio for Autodesk® Revit® is a digital library solution used to collect, manage and share Revit® families in a quality controlled environment.

Content|Studio offers much more than conventional filing systems: information is stored in an intelligent, quality controlled library making it easy to capture, manage, share and use Autodesk® Revit® files within your company.

Access your files quickly and with confidence.

Learn more at the Content|Studio website.

Easy Family Loader

Loading families is a frequent task when using Revit. However, trying to find desired families is frustrating because of folder structure complexities. This tool lets you find your families easily. It adds search capabilities for filtering the path name and the file name.

This add-in may be downloaded from the revitapp website.

Credit: The Revittize blog

Show Occupancy Loads in Room Tags

On his blog Revit Sticky Notes, Rahul Shah has released a free add-in to show calculated room occupancy loads in room tags - a feature not natively available in Revit.

The add-in may be download from the Revit Sticky Notes blog.

Credit: RevitOpEd

From Autodesk Labs: Point Cloud Feature Extraction - Automatically Extract Geometry From Point Clouds

Point Cloud Feature Extraction for Autodesk® Revit® 2012 software is a free* technology preview that allows you to work with point cloud more easily in Revit. This plug-in automatically extracts useful geometry features from point cloud of buildings and creates basic Revit elements to aid the building modeling in Revit.

WHAT TOOLS DOES POINT CLOUD FEATURE EXTRACTION PLUG-IN FOR REVIT PROVIDE?

Point Cloud Feature Extraction for Autodesk Revit 2012 provides the following tools to facilitate the point cloud editing after it is inserted into Revit:

• Crop / Uncrop: Temporarily hide the points outside a rectangle or polygon
• Hide Point Cloud: Temporarily hide the whole point cloud object to facilitate the inspection of the feature extraction result
• Adjust Axis: Transform the point cloud data so that floor can be aligned with XY plane and major walls are parallel to Z axis

Moreover, this plug-in includes some main features specifically for Revit so that the extracted features / geometry can be smoothly integrated into the BIM workflow:

• Datum Extraction: Extract both level and orthogonal grid
• Site Extraction: Extract both terrain surface for ground surface creation and building footprint on terrain surface for building pad generation
• Wall Extraction: Extract both straight wall layout and arc wall
• Floor Extraction: Extract floor from selected points on the floor plan level

The add-in can be downloaded from the Autodesk Labs product website.