Revit Add-Ons: July 2019

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Beta Testers Wanted for KiwiCodes' Family Browser r3

Sneak peek at Family Browser r3 all new UI. Many changes on the way to make this the easiest, fastest Family Browser ever. Want to test? Contact us. #familybrowser3 pic.twitter.com/duNVfbnRWe
— Phillip Miller (@kiwicodes) July 31, 2019

Monday, July 29, 2019

G.Plus – A Productivity Suite for Scheduling, Excel Interoperability and More

From the Autodesk App Store:

G.Plus increases the productivity of the entire project team.

Link an Autodesk® Revit® schedule to an Excel File:

Edit Schedule data either by instance or type parameter.
Create unplaced rooms, spaces, areas, and sheets.
Add and remove Schedule fields.
Add New shared parameters to the Revit file and schedule.

Color filters and legend:

Easily identify the data of your elements in any view by automatically applying a color filter.
Create rule-based filters to mark any category of elements in a view.
Apply filters to the active view template.
Create color legends for the rule-based filters.

From the Autodesk App Store:

About the plugin:

The plugin allows you to publish Revit models to Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.

Android App (to open exported model to AR VR): Epic AR VR

THIS APP IS SUPPORTED ON DEVICES WHICH SUPPORT AUGMENTED REALITY: list of supported devices are: https://developers.google.com/ar/discover/supported-devices

Contact us for:

If you need any custom development on AR and VR
If you want to integrate this plugin to your solution
SDK to read .unitydata file in unity

How it works?

Install this plugin and then open Autodesk® Revit®
In the Ribbonbar you will see the plugin tab. Load any model, set view (this view will be the initial view in VR) and click on "Convert to AR VR" button. It will generate a folder to your system.
Transfer converted folder to your Mobile or Tablet.
Install this Android App to your Mobile or Tablet. IOS app coming soon.
Open the android app "Epic AR VR" and browse the exported file "*.unitydata"
Now select whether you want to load the model for Augmented Reality or Virtual Reality

For your convenience, below is our bi-annual list of the 5-star rated Revit-related add-ins on the Autodesk App Store (with at least four reviews). The list is sorted by number of reviews, highest to lowest. Add-ins are also separated between free and paid.

The add-in that gained the most reviews since our last listing was Color Splasher with 8 (for 21 total).

Eighteen add-ins made their debut on the list this go-round. The add-in debuting with the most reviews was BIM BOQ Quantifier with 9 reviews.

Remember, reviews are important. Please take a few minutes to share your experiences with apps on the App Store by submitting reviews!

Revit

Free

COINS Auto-Section Box
"Brings fluidity to the Autodesk® Revit® section box when modifying complex areas of a model. Saves seconds when communicating, costly minutes when modeling, and valuable hours throughout a project."
★★★★★ (102 reviews⁺³)

Palladio X BIM WindowsLayout
Arrange windows by a scheme.
★★★★★ (63 reviews⁺²)

Giant-Size Roundup – For July 8-21, 2019, New and Updated Revit-Related Add-Ins on the Autodesk App Store

Revit

New

FISA PDF Insertion and scaling
This tool allows you to insert a PDF file into Autodesk® Revit® | USD 89.00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 7/18/2019 – Initial Release.

OnboxApp
Onbox is a free and open-source Autodesk® Revit® app that helps day to day tasks like renumbering elements, creating structural components, topo surface manipulations, and content management | Free
★★★★★ (3 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 7/17/2019 – Initial release. The first version of this tool was released in Q'Apps version 1.0.2

Crop View
This tool is designed to quickly create crop view on View Plan | Trial
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 7/17/2019 – Initial release. The first version of this tool was released in Q'Apps version 1.0.2

From the Autodesk App Store:

This integration brings drawings from the Autodesk® BIM 360™ project into a live markup environment in Bullclip for design and drawing review. Live markups and communication in Bullclip enable faster turnarounds for teams with tight review deadlines, and enhance the BIM 360 Plans and Project Files modules by making every drawing a workspace for instant communication.

Bullclip’s live communication environment provides both transparency to the whole project team as well as a complete version and markup history along the way. While most design review status updates are limited to traditional milestones (such as 30%, 60%, 90% complete), Bullclip allows real-time insight into the status of a particular review at any one point in time, allowing the team to be better positioned to catch errors earlier in the design process. Bullclip brings markups, discussion and issue management onto every live drawing for faster design turnaround.

With your Bullclip integration you can:

Markups - Draw and send design feedback to your team instantly through a live workspace
Discussion - gather timely feedback from the right people, all within context of a particular drawing
Design Issue Management - Create issues, pin them to a drawing, and assign to team members for traceable feedback

From the Autodesk App Store:

Design Master Electrical RT adds electrical calculations to Autodesk® Revit® MEP.

One-Line Riser Diagrams: Automatically generate one-line riser diagrams from your Revit model. Customize the graphics to match your existing one-line diagram. Keep your one-line diagram synchronized with the rest of your project as your design changes.

Feeder Sizing: Feeders are size automatically based upon the upstream overcurrent protection for a piece of electrical equipment. You have complete control of the chosen feeder size and can override it when necessary.

Branch Circuit Sizing: Branch circuit breakers and wire sizes are sized automatically based upon the connected load. You have complete control of the breaker and wire size and can override it when necessary.

Fault Calculations: Available fault current is calculated for each piece of electrical equipment. The calculated fault current can be used to set the AIC rating for the device.

Voltage Drop Calculations: The voltage drop is calculated between each piece of electrical equipment. Feeders that exceed the maximum 3% voltage drop allowed can be easily resized.

Arc-Flash Calculations: Arc-flash calculations are performed at each piece of electrical equipment. An arc-flash schedule can be created that displays the calculated values. Arc-flash warning labels can be printed to be put on devices in the field.

From the Autodesk App Store:

hsbTimber for Autodesk Revit works with native Revit objects by having a seamless transition from architectural design to fabrication. hsbcad enhance the intelligence of Revit families, making your models even smarter. Through continuous integration with the latest production methods hsbcad ensure users are unlimited in their design, extending the possibilities of BIM with complementary hsbcad tools.

hsbcad use native Autodesk Revit structural members and apply complex tools through extended Revit families. Some of the toolset includes dovetail, tenon, slots, drills, convex/concave, chamfer and much more. Autodesk Revit commands such as split, join, stretch, and cut are reactive and can still be applied to structural members.

Utilising native edges, surfaces and structural members, hsbTimber for Autodesk Revit will create a framed result for walls, floors, and roofs with unique intelligent positioning of numbers on the structural members.

All structural members and tools support customizable basic shop drawings and every part of the construction can be exported to a required format using the hsbcad exporter for CNC information.

AutoExcel v5.5.2

From the Autodesk App Store:

With Auto Excel, you will be able to quickly export and re-import any Autodesk® Revit® project schedule to Microsoft® Excel®. The best batch tool to modify lots of parameters at once.

Open any project schedule and click "export"
Modify the Excel generated file
Go back to the same project schedule and click on "import"

Great for modification of tons of parameters in a single step. Use Excel to organize your data and parameters!

From the Autodesk App Store:

Originally created in 2014 as a collection of macros to improve and speed up workflows for multi-story buildings, it had its first public release in September 2016 as an Autodesk® Revit® application. It became very popular in Brazil and other countries like Spain, Mexico, and Portugal, helping AEC students and professionals across 39 different countries to be more productive and efficient.

The tool is available in English or Brazilian Portuguese depending on the language of Revit that you have launched.

The Slope Grading Command

From the Autodesk App Store:

This tool allows you to insert a page of your choosing from a PDF file directly into a 2D view of Autodesk® Revit® at the insertion point of your choice.

It is not possible to use PDF files with passwords.

The tool also offers the possibility to change the insertion scale of the PDF page that you have inserted in your view.

From the Autodesk App Store:

This tool is designed to quickly create crop view on View Plan.

The view area on the plan will quickly be fixed to the region defined by the drag mouse of the user.

This is the location of Crop View tool in Q’Apps Solutions:

EasyPower Integrator

From the Autodesk App Store:

EasyPower Integrator is the Autodesk® Revit® add-in that integrates with the EasyPower electrical power system software by exchanging model data, analysis data, and design data between the two programs. The add-in reads the Revit model for power equipment with all the families, types, parameters including connectivity, and circuit details, which enables EasyPower to automatically and instantly create a complete one-line (single-line) drawing with the electrical data needed for electrical analysis. The add-in allows Revit users to export data to EasyPower users. This gives them access to Building Information Modeling (BIM) data within EasyPower. The add-in also imports the results of electrical calculations such as short circuit, arc flash, electrical design, and voltage drop as parameters associated with individual equipment in the Revit model.

This product works with Revit versions 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. EasyPower version 10.3 or higher. An EasyPower Integrator license is required to exchange data with Revit. To try out or purchase EasyPower software, go to the website https://www.easypower.com/pricing-and-demo.

From the Autodesk App Store:

This application contains 6 useful tools for families.

Batch Rotate Family
In Autodesk® Revit® you can't rotate more than one family at once.
This tool will enable you to rotate more than one family at once.

Match Rotation
The tool is designed to match loadable families rotation.
This tool will enable you to match element rotation in more than one element at once.
The tool works for loadable family only in this version and it will include all elements in later releases.

Batch Rename Families
The tool is designed to batch rename or modify family names inside Revit.
This will facilitate the process of maintaining standard family names inside your project.
Please note: Application works for only loadable families.

REVMo8 – A Revit Productivity Suite

From the Autodesk App Store:

REVMo8 greatly simplifies working in Autodesk® Revit®.

Powerful tools to improve productivity and speed up your design process.

Use REVMo8 to do much of your work in Revit from drawing grid lines, 3D Stick Frame, 3D modeling, visibility control, material takedown and more. Every step is fully automated and hides the complexity of doing it manually. REVMo8 is perfect for those new to Revit.

Features include:

Building Boundary and Column Grids: Quick and easy way to generate column grids and dimensions. Grids are automatically shown in 3D view as well as plan views.
3D Stick Frame: Manual and Automatic generation of 3D stick frames. Stick Frames are used for 3D modeling as well as massive buildings visibility control.
Level Manager: Tools to manage all aspects of levels operations without dealing with the graphics screen.

From the Autodesk App Store:

When a New Sheet is created in the model the user will be presented with a pop-up dialog to Number and Name the sheet. This keeps the user from having to hunt the sheet down at the bottom of the browser.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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