Roundup – New and Updated Revit Add-ins on Autodesk Exchange Apps for the Week of 6/14/2015

It was another busy week on Autodesk Exchange Apps with updates of 11 apps and 1 new one.

Other highlights include updates from current Revit Add-ons advertisers ArchVision, RevitWorks, and Xrev, as well as former advertiser PopIcon Software.This week also saw updates to the popular and free HatchKit add-in.

NEW

DoNotPlot
DoNotPlot allows you to pick categories and subcategories that will not plot/print for each Autodesk® Revit® model. This information is stored in the Revit model for all users of the addin | Free


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FREE ArchVision RPC Entourage Starter Pack
2016 now supported! Download and Drag & Drop RPC Content into Autodesk® AutoCAD, Autodesk® Revit® & Autodesk® 3ds Max. Place, edit & render thousands of RPC People, Trees, Cars & Objects | Free

Scope Box Synchronizer
Quickly imports and synchronizes Scope Boxes between different projects as well as reorders Scope Boxes in the project | Free

3DPDF Exporter for Revit®
3DPDF Exporter For Autodesk® Revit® exports your model to secured and encrypted 3D PDF file | Trial

Xrev Transmit
Xrev Transmit is the ultimate print, export & transmittal tool for Autodesk® Revit® users. Publish drawing sheets and the model in numerous formats all at the same time, with the settings you need | Trial

Free DoNotPlot Add-in

From the Autodesk Exchange Apps website...

 DoNotPlot allows you to pick categories and subcategories that will not plot/print for each Autodesk® Revit® model.

This addin will store the categories and subcategories you choose into your Revit model. Whenever you or anyone else with this addin installed prints, the categories and subcategories will be turned off and therefore not printed.

The best use of this addin, is to create your own subcategories inside your families and put content on them that you do not want to print but want to be visible in your model. For example: create a subcategory called "DONOTPRINT" and place some content you wish to not print onto that subcategory. Then add the "DONOTPRINT" subcategory to the list in DoNotPlot addin. Then everytime you print, the "DONOTPRINT" subcategory will be turned off during printing.

The free DoNotPlot add-in is brought to you by Troy Gates.

There's more information available on the Autodesk Exchange Apps website.

Further reading: Other printing-related add-ins.

Using Dynamo to Automate the “I” in BIM (Update 2)

Nearly a decade ago, Rob Snyder of Bentley Systems, when speaking to me about Bentley’s then groundbreaking computational modeling product Generative Components (GC), told me, “I foresee a day when people will deliver computational modeling definitions as add-ins rather than traditional macros or apps.” I think that, with Dynamo, that vision is becoming a reality.

Luke Johnson recently presciently wrote in a post on his What Revit Wants blog that generative modeling tools excel at what their platform applications excel at. For GC+MicroStation and Grasshopper+Rhino, that’s advanced freeform modeling. For Dynamo+Revit, that’s leveraging, managing and documenting the “I,” or information, in "BIM."

I first saw an example of Dynamo being used to manage BIM information when I posted about the BIM Troublemaker using Dynamo to link Revit with Excel. Lately, I’ve noticed a groundswell of other practical applications of Dynamo as evidenced by the following tweets, several of which come from a post on What Revit Wants.

Renumbering in #Revit got you down? This tutorial by @williamwong will cheer you up #DynamoBIM http://t.co/F38yaydetL pic.twitter.com/vXlgENDgSz

— CASE (@case_inc) March 12, 2015

Video Demo of Enscape in Action – Real-Time 3D Rendered Walkthrough for Revit (Updated)

I previously posted about Enscape, the real-time 3D rendered walkthrough add-in for Revit projects. Here's a nice demo video of the application in action.

Updated 6/18/2015 to include an Editor's Choice Award. Congratulations to the folks at Inreal Technologies GmbH!




Pretty slick! And Enscape is priced at just 45.00 USD monthly. Now that's compelling.

A trial version of Enscape can be downloaded from Autodesk Exchange Apps or from the Enscape website.

Credit:

"Shut up and take my money now!" - Real-time rendering for #Revit using #Enscape! http://t.co/EGvfcKB5LJ #awesome

— Jason Howden (@RTVTools) June 17, 2015

Free Excel Export/Import Add-in for Revit

From the BIM One website...

SYNCHRONIZE DATA BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN REVIT AND EXCEL

The Import/export Excel allows you to synchronize data back and forth between Revit and Excel. It also means you can alleviate the data management process by delegating tasks related to the model to team members that don’t use the model. You can export schedules as well as Revit standards to manage them in Excel. Once modified, you import the data back to Revit and your schedules or standards are going to be updated.

• Data management without managing the 3D model
• Better segregation of duties
• Reduced training costs on BIM softwares

The free Excel Export/Import add-in is brought to you by BIM One.

There's more information available on the BIM One website, and on the Autodesk App Store.

Related:
Other Revit/Excel add-ins
Other free add-ins

IMAGINiT Utilities for Revit 2016 Includes 2 New Tools

From the IMAGINiT website...

The Indispensable Time-Savers for Autodesk Revit

IMAGINiT Utilities for Revit 2016 supports only Revit 2016 products. We do also offer versions for Revit 2013, 2014 and 2015. The IMAGINiT Utilities are available in either Standalone or Named-User versions.

NEW in Utilities for Revit 2016*:

Dependent View Copy
Automate the creation of dependent views in your model, based on an example set. This utility handles view naming, crop regions, splits and more.

Adjust Pipe
Pipes in Revit can be finicky – if two segments are out of alignment by a tiny fraction of an inch – they cannot be joined together. This tool provides a wide variety of ways to adjust pipes so that they will trim together, and you can keep on piping.

*These tools only in IMAGINiT Utilities for Revit 2016, which will be available beginning June 19, 2015.

Other tools include:

View Cleanup - Helps reduce file size and reduces the time you need to clean up excessive views from Revit models. It’s especially helpful when working with multiple consultants.

What's Hot in Revit Add-ons for May 2015

From May's Revit Add-ons statistics, it seems that stairs continue to be an area of potential improvement for Revit add-in developers.

The following descriptions are those of the add-in developers.

Stairs Builder
Stairs Builder is an application based on Autodesk® Revit®. It provides powerful capabilities and friendly features for stairs creation with following characteristics:

• Fourteen kinds of the most common stairs are supported.
• Stairs can be created across more than one level. 
• Levels with different intervals are supported for stairs creation with Stairs Builder. 
• Landings and Openings can be created automatically. 
• And more!

Roundup – New and Updated Revit Add-ins on Autodesk Exchange Apps for the Week of 6/7/2015

With a whopping 27 new or updated add-ins, the week of June 7, 2015 was one of the busiest I've seen on Autodesk Exchange Apps in the 8 months that I've been publishing these weekly roundups.



NEW

Scope Box Synchronizer
Quickly imports and synchronizes Scope Boxes between different projects as well as reorders Scope Boxes in the project | Free



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Vabi Financial Simulator
Vabi Financial Simulator™ App enables Return on Investment (ROI) calculations, monitors the financial impact of design decisions and supervises achievement of owner and developer financial goals | Trial

CTC SuperDoor Configurator 2016 (Purchase)
SuperDoor Configurator includes both Autodesk® Revit® families and software which provides a wizard interface that guides users through quickly and easily creating quality doors. For Revit 2014-2016 | USD 370.00

CTC SuperDoor Configurator 2016 (Trial)
SuperDoor Configurator includes both Autodesk® Revit® families and software which provides a wizard interface that guides users through quickly and easily creating quality doors. For Revit 2014-2016 | Trial

2D Placer
Autodesk® Revit® addin for placing Detail Items and Annotation Symbols with a modified interface to enhance productivity | Trial

Free Scope Box Synchronizer

From the Autodesk Exchange Apps website...

The application is able to import all or selected Scope Boxes from a linked Autodesk® Revit® project into your project, as well as checking if yours and the linked Scope Boxes are the same - if they are different you're able to Synchronize your Scope Boxes to match those in the linked project. Similar to the built-in Copy/Monitor functionality, but on Scope Boxes.

After importing or synchronizing you also have the possibility to reorder the Scope Boxes either automatically or with drag and drop.

The free Scope Box Synchronizer is brought to you by Omnia Revit.

There's more information available on the Autodesk Exchange Apps website.

Related: Roundup – Free Scope Box Add-ins from Omnia Revit

Autodesk Results Connect 2016 for Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis

Release Date: 2015-05-11

Results Connect is an application that allows designers and engineers using Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis to seamlessly access data and results with Microsoft® Office® Excel®.

This tool allows, with simple formulas available in Microsoft® Excel®, to obtain information about a structure model defined in your project.

With Results Connect, you can seamlessly access information on your model such as:

• values of forces for all bars,
• values of nodal displacements,
• information concerning section properties.

You can also use formulas and Microsoft Excel tools to create a data table for structural elements from the project, and display these data as line graphs, histograms, and charts.

Log in to Autodesk Account to access this subscription entitlement.

Roundup – New and Updated Revit Add-ins on Autodesk Exchange Apps for the Week of 5/31/2015

NEW

SPECtrum
Rethink Content... - Manage entire content libraries in batch - Manage system families (Assemblies, Materials) - Deploy managed content from any workstation - Manage Parameters & Values in Batch | Trial

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Detail Filter
This filter is a simple command for filtering of the selected elements in more detail | Free

HVACgbXmlCalc
Cooling load calculation based on gbXml file according to RTS method by ASHRAE | Free

DigiPara® Elevatorarchitect 2016
Free plug-in to create elevator BIM models within Autodesk® Revit® 2016 software | Free

Topo Align 2016
Align topography to elements picked in the model | USD 1.99

Workshared File Notification
Allows user to easily recreate a local file if the local file is outdated. It also prevents user from accidentally opened a central model | Free

Enscape™ Trial
Enscape™ – Realtime 3D rendered walkthrough for your projects in Autodesk Revit. It enables you to show and communicate designs in your team or to your customers effortlessly | Trial


Related: Other roundups.

Lots of Advertising Changes, Including a New Lower Cost Option for Advertisers

I've always tried to make advertising on Revit Add-ons and Civil 3D Add-ons inclusive to all sizes of organizations, and to all budgets. In the hopes of furthering this, I've added a new advertising option: Horizontal Sidebars in a 4x3 aspect ratio instead of the 3x4  aspect ratio I've used exclusively for sidebar ads previously.

Ad sizes and locations

There's an example of a Horizontal Sidebar on the site: The Building Coder ad in the left-hand margin.

The Top and Bottom Banner ads have also changed, but in a different way. Previously, I rotated Top Banner ads monthly. This was rather ungainly, and didn't offer the freshest user experience. I recently did a little programing (shocking I know), and the Top and Bottom banner ads now load a random ad from the rotation with each pageload.

Roundup – New and Updated Revit Add-ins on Autodesk Exchange Apps for the Week of 5/24/2015

NEW

DiffCheck
With just the push of a button, Diffcheck adjusts the height of all ceiling diffusers to the ceiling grid. DiffCheck also checks all ceiling diffusers for conflicts with other ceiling items | USD 25.00

Vabi Spatial Requirements Assistant
Vabi Spatial Requirements Assistant™ App continually monitors that all functional building requirements are met as different design options are investigated | Trial

Vabi Thermal Comfort Optimizer
Vabi Thermal Comfort Optimizer™ App optimizes people’s thermal comfort inside the building by setting the right room by room heating and cooling setpoints across your BIM model | Trial

Vabi Financial Simulator
Vabi Financial Simulator™ App enables Return on Investment (ROI) calculations, monitors the financial impact of design decisions and supervises achievement of owner and developer financial goals | Trial

Surfacer
Surfacer helps users to create surface layer for walls, columns, beams and floors easily | USD 5.00



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Print2CAD 2015 - PDF /JPEG /... to DWG Converter
PDF/JPEG/TIFF/HPGL/... to DWG or DXF Conversion To Full Editable Drawing With The Help of a Stand Alone Program. With Raster Vectorization and OCR Text Recognition | Trial

WorkFlow
Productivity suite for Autodesk® Revit® | Trial

SOFiSTiK 3D-PDF Export 2013 (64-Bit)
SOFiSTiK 3D-PDF Export generates PDF documents with embedded 3D content. Particularly focused on structural models and reinforcement it includes features to create an useful representation of them | USD 9.90

SOFiSTiK 3D-PDF Export 2013 (32-Bit)
SOFiSTiK 3D-PDF Export generates PDF documents with embedded 3D content. Particularly focused on structural models and reinforcement it includes features to create an useful representation of them | USD 9.90

M.L.T.E.
Multi Line Text Editor | USD 5.00