Petite Roundup – For December 22-29, 2019, New and Updated Revit-Related Add-Ins on the Autodesk App Store

Revit

New

GenerateFloor
An add-in for Autodesk® Revit® that allows the user to generate floors above the selected rooms | USD 2.00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 12/13/2019 – Initial public release

Updated

Pipe Pack 2017
This tool will bring the Speed, Accuracy and Quality together while modelling and Coordinating Pipes | USD 50.00/M
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 12/26/2019 – Initial Release

Docuflow PDF
The most advanced publisher tool for construction professionals. Exports PDF , DWG , DWF , IFC and drawing lists in 1 job, with your office standards and intelligent detection of size and orientation | Trial
★★★★★ (15 reviews)
About This Version: Version 4.0, 12/26/2019 – For release notes, see this post »

Transfer App for BIM 360

From the Autodesk App Store:

TransferApp allows you to transfer your design files between different Autodesk® BIM360® accounts, projects and folders on your BIM360 account.  You no longer have to download your files locally and re-upload them on the desired destination. Now you can use TransferApp to avoid this step. Transfer app allows you to use your BIM360 login credentials to access your projects, hubs and accounts, navigate through your files and select the desired files to transfer. Select the destination location and click transfer. TransferApp only stores the data required to manage your account on https://transfer.contecht.eu/

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Docuflow PDF v4.0

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 4.0, 12/26/2019

• Added sheet search functionality to allow filtering the sheets.
• Added dynamically generated metadata to PDF. Project information and sheet parameters can now be exported as PDF properties and used by your document control software.
• The path of the local and central Revit files can now be exported as PDF properties to allow remembering the location of the models from the drawings.
• Added function to publish black lines to PDF

Description

Publish all your documents in one operation.

Now it's easy to get high-quality PDF , DWG, DWF, DWFx, IFC and drawing list from the same tool. Just select your sheets and you are good to go. Docuflow makes your drawing issues quick and simple.

Intelligent

Docuflow detects sheet sizes and orientation and takes care of all the complicated stuff. All your documents are exported to PDF in 1 operation exactly like the sheets in Revit. You no longer to spend time doing the manual selection of sheets, matching paper sizes or orientation and separating print jobs.

GenerateFloor

From the Autodesk App Store:

An add-in for Autodesk® Revit® that allows the user to generate floors above the selected rooms. Instead of generating the boundaries of the floor manually, the user selects the type of the Floor to add and just selects as many rooms as he wants and the add-in will automatically generate the Floors above those Rooms.

the add-in in the Revit ribbon.

Roundup – For December 10-22, 2019, New and Updated Revit-Related Add-Ins on the Autodesk App Store

Revit

New

Pipe Pack 2018
This tool will bring the speed, accuracy, and quality together while modeling and coordinating pipes | USD 50.00/M
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 12/19/2019 – Initial Release.

InternalOriginHide-ifier
Hides the Internal Origin category in all views in Autodesk® Revit® 2020.2 and up | Free
★★★★★ (1 review)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 12/18/2019 – Initial release.

Pipe Pack 2018 - Trial
This tool will bring the Speed, Accuracy, and Quality together while modeling and Coordinating Pipes | Trial
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 12/18/2019 – Initial Release.

Free Butterfly TimelinerTask Find/Replace for Navisworks

From the Autodesk App Store:

This app can find various Timeliners by task name, scope, task type, and user definition. The result can be displayed in the dialog box, to easily change the name of the task and connect model items.

Connect / Disconnect Model Item

Integrated Handover Repository for BIM 360

From the Autodesk App Store:

Integrated Handover Repository automatically transforms a Autodesk® BIM360® project and distributes the required content in to an owner's O&M systems. The product provides owner's specification management, data aggregation and cleansing, quality control utilities, and issue resolving capabilities. It features:

• Automate construction project managed in BIM360 into owner's O&M systems
• Handover quality control for the owners
• Resolve handover requirement issues through BIM 360 collaboration.

InternalOriginHide-ifier

From the Autodesk App Store:

With Autodesk® Revit® 2020.2, we were given access to the "Internal Origin" category for viewing. By default, it is turned on in all views when you open a project in the new version. This tool aims to assist you in hiding this category. This is achieved by iterating through ALL views and view templates and setting its visibility to false.

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Pipe Pack

From the Autodesk App Store:

This tool will bring speed, accuracy, and quality together while modeling and coordinating pipes. We have added lots of cool features like Multi Trim and Multi connect for pipes in both vertical and horizontal directions.

The following features are incorporated into this tool.

Set Edge to Edge spacing of pipes in a click.

Multi split - using Detail Line or Model Line.

Align either Top or Bottom of pipes in a rack.

Multi connect will help you to connect multiple pipes in a few clicks.

Vertical Connect - set the desired bend angle and connect multiple pipes in different elevations in one shot.

Rolling offset - helps you to add Rolling offsets with a required angle for a bunch of pipes.

Tee connect - helps you to add Tee connections for a bunch of pipes.

Free Renumbering Sheet

From the Autodesk App Store:

This application allows Autodesk® Revit® Users to renumber sheets very quickly.

Revit users must select button Renumbering Sheet first.

A dialog will appear to ask you to select a range of sheets and renumbering rules. Click OK to see amazing results.

GeT Know-How

From the Autodesk App Store:

‘GeT Know-How' is an intuitive on-demand reference and eTraining tool available directly inside your Autodesk® software, including Autodesk® Revit®, Autodesk® AutoCAD®, Autodesk® AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, Autodesk® AutoCAD® Plant 3D, Autodesk® Inventor®, or Autodesk® Navisworks®.

Autodesk eTraining: All Global eTraining content is developed by expert Autodesk trainers and designed to support multiple learning styles.

Predictive Learning: ‘GeT Know-How’ reacts to your commands, showing you the learning content relevant to the tools you are actively using

GeT Interactive: Work through course topics directly within the software via access to the ‘GeT Interactive’ course interface including videos, screenshots, audio instruction, hands-on exercises and more.

Searchable Reference Tool: Search for specific training resources by keyword to find what you need in real-time and stay focused on the work that matters most.

Expert Help Desk Support: One-click access to real experts and technical support via help desk tickets and live chat.

Personalization: The modern dockable window allows custom positioning and sizing within your workspace. Employ filters and turn predictive suggestions on and off to personalize your experience.

Custom Content: By utilizing ‘The Generator’ course authoring technology, organizations can have their custom courses and related workflows loaded directly into the plugin and access to their team.

Easy PDF Print

From the Autodesk App Store:

In most of the projects, you need to export multiple sheets to pdf and the output file name for each sheet should follow a naming convention. In practice, this is very time consuming and increases the likelihood of errors.

Also, the paper size and orientation of the output files may vary for different sheets, so it will take a long time to adjust them manually in large projects.

This plugin does the above for you easily. You could use the following pdf print drivers:

• Adobe PDF
• novaPDF
• Microsoft Print to PDF
• PDFCreator
• PDF24
• Bullzip PDF Printer

In the next revisions, other pdf drivers may be added.

It is recommended to set the preferences of the selected PDF driver from "Printers & scanners" in the Windows setting before using it inside the plugin, e.g. the output path.

For PDFCreator, PDF24, and Bullzip PDF Printer, you could change preferences by using their settings application.

For PDFCreator and Bullzip PDF Printer file naming process doesn't work properly, because of their built-in settings.

AutoCT – Auto Cable Trays; Automatic Containment Sizing for Electrical Circuits

From the Autodesk App Store:

AutoCT is shorthand for Automatic Containment sizing.

Our Autodesk® Revit® add-in automatically routes electrical circuits from start to endpoint along cable tray routes and automatically checks the containment size.

How does the software work?

Using filters created in the model, the software finds the nearest appropriate cable containment to both the start and end of the circuit and finds the path between them.

The cable sizes, cable types, configuration, spacing, etc. can be imported from the model or entered in our cable schedule.

The software gathers the calculated results and displays a 3D view of the fill factors for each containment - easily showing problem areas.

Key Features:

• The calculation is fast and can easily update with circuit or model changes.
• The software models circuits as accurately as possible - with options for different wire types, circuit configurations, grouping and methods of support.
• Works with unconnected cable tray networks - The software can find the nearest appropriate cable tray type and continue its calculations.
• Error checking is built-in - unconnected networks, zero diameter circuits, circuits with no panels, circuits with no filters, etc.

Free Quick Select By Filter

From the Autodesk App Store:

Reduce your time in selecting elements and deleting multiple filters:

• The tool helps Autodesk® Revit® users to select elements quickly by filters. It can also help Revit users delete multiple filters in just one click.
• The tool is independent with Revit Commands, so Revit users can open it and work with all Revit Commands at the same time.
• It is also available to display the addin window always on top of Revit.
• This tool is available for Autodesk® Revit® 2017-2020. The new version will be updated along with new Revit Version.

This tool is totally free, simply install and enjoy the app! If this tool is helpful for you, you can donate me a cup of tea.

Free Delete Multiple View Templates at Once

From the Autodesk App Store:

This application allows you to quickly delete multiple view templates from the project at once.

Free Chamfer and Fillet Lite

From the Autodesk App Store:

Chamfer and Fillet Lite is an add-in that lets you create a large number of chamfers or fillet arcs in one operation.

If you ever need to create Chamfer Lines or Fillet Arcs, this app is a no-brainer.

It adds a Chamfer feature to Autodesk® Revit® and improves upon the existing Fillet Arc by allowing you to batch process.

Both Chamfer and Fillet come with plenty of geometric options to save the user's time.

For Fillet, instead of controlling just radius, choose between arc length, radius or length of the line to be trimmed.

For Chamfer, choose between chamfer length, perpendicular distance to corner or length of the trimmed line.

Chamfer and Fillet Lite can be used in projects or families and supports detail lines, model lines, room separation lines, area separation lines, and symbolic lines.

Pro version supports walls, ducts, pipes, floors and more.

Floor Toolkit

From the Autodesk App Store:

Our app has the following features:

1. Accurate creation of floors in automatic mode. While creating a floor, the holes under the columns and closed areas are taken into account, the floor also includes the space of the door threshold. Because of this, area of the created floor will be slightly larger than the area of the room and it can be included as a new field in the room finish schedule.
2. After changing the contours of the rooms and the location of the doors, the geometry of the floors can be quickly updated.
3. Some national standards require additional fields for the floor schedule, such as a description of the floor compound structure, a sketch of the floor section and a list of rooms, where this type of floor is used. Our application fills all these fields. Sketches of the floors can be edited.
4. While creating the floor, the program searches for the type of floor most suitable for the type of floor finish used in the room. We also offer a solution that allows you to quickly assign all room finish schedule fields, using text patterns in the name of the room.
5. If the base finish contains PVH floor moldings, it makes sense to calculate not only the total molding length, but also the number of connecting parts: inner and outer corners, joints and ends. If the base finish parameter specifies the length of one segment of the molding, the program will calculate the number of connecting parts per each room.

Free Room Purge

From the Autodesk App Store:

With Room Purge you can now save a lot of time finding and locating rooms displayed in your Room Schedule but need to be removed.

Maybe they've been placed by mistake or maybe you're doing a model clean-up, use Room Purge for the job!

Read Help Document

About This Version

Version 1.0.0.0, 12/11/2019 – Initial release.

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Room Purge is brought to you by CADXpert a/s. It's free.

This add-in is available in versions compatible with Revit 2020 and Revit 2019.

Download from the Autodesk App Store »

Questions? Contact the developer »

Free MagiCAD Connect for Autodesk® Revit® 2017 - 2020 v2019.12.3

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 2019.12.3, 12/18/2019

The latest changes and updates:

• A new selection Tool from Tovenco has been added to help the users select suitable kitchen hood products to their projects.
• We have optimized the downloading process of families from MagiCAD Cloud.
• We improved the way product variants are selected to the project from the product card seen in MagiCAD Connect. Earlier only the first variant was downloaded, but now all variants in the family are downloaded.

MagiCAD Connect enables you to search Revit compatible product models from MagiCAD Cloud’s wide selection and insert them effortlessly into your design drawing. Have access to manufacturer’s MagiCAD Selection Tools which will make selecting the correct product for your design that much easier.

Description

MagiCAD Connect is an add-in for Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) designers using Autodesk® Revit® and MagiCAD. When installing MagiCAD Connect, Revit users can download free of charge a selected portion of MagiCAD Cloud’s BIM objects inside native Revit projects in native Revit RFA format.

Free Import/Export Excel v20.0.1

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 20.0.1, 12/17/2019

• Corrections made
• Export
• Improved export speed when using multiple ”room” settings
• View shared parameter values
• Display parameter values for  “space” and “project”.
• Sorts on multiple parameters when exporting
• Import
• Importing "integer" and "boolean" values
• Importing shared parameter values
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• Improvements made
• Export of schedule of sheets
• Improved visual display of tables in Excel.
• Adding the grand total at the end of the table

Description

The Import/Export Excel allows you to synchronize data back and forth between Autodesk® 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.

ElementsJoiner Pro & ElementsJoiner Lite v2.0

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 2.0, 12/10/2019

• Join / unjoin / join-switch Elements of same categories 
• Advance Selection based on Rule-based Filters
• Advance Selection based on Types 
• Tow sensitivity levels of junctions (Touched and Imbricate) geometries 

Description

Element Joiner Lite is a Trial version of Element Joiner Pro. It helps you to create automatically  different kinds of junctions between Architectural and Structural elements for small projects with less than 135 beams, 135 walls, and 45 columns.

Features:

1. Join Elements (Walls, Floors, Structural Columns, Beams, Roofs, Columns)
2. Unjoin Elements (Walls, Floors, Structural Columns, Beams, Roofs, Columns)
3. Swish Join Elements (Walls, Floors, Structural Columns, Beams, Roofs, Columns)
4. Wall Cleaner - join superposed walls 
5. Unjoin Beams and Walls end, both side or one side

Roundup – For Oct 21 - Dec 10, 2019, New and Updated Revit-Related Add-Ins on the Autodesk App Store, Somebody-Please-Shoot-Me-Sized Edition

Revit

New

Print Setup Manager
This add-in will help you to manage all print setups in an Autodesk® Revit® file | Free
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 12/9/2019 – Initial release

Codemill DataManager
Codemill DataManager is an Autodesk® Revit® plugin for design and construction project life cycle management, assets management and facilities management | Trial
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.1.0, 12/9/2019 – Initial release.

Add View To Sheet
This application allows Autodesk® Revit® users to add multiple Views into Sheet very quickly | Free
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 12/9/2019 – Initial release

EC3 for Autodesk® BIM 360®

From the Autodesk App Store:

EC3 for Autodesk BIM 360 allows Autodesk® Revit® users to export BIM models from BIM 360 directly to the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) hosted at buildingtransparency.org.

Export material types and quantity take-offs from BIM 360, avoiding the need for manual take-off.
Display embodied carbon intensity and savings in the Large Model Viewer (LMV).
Generate recommendations for specifying affordable, low-carbon construction materials.

You will need an EC3 account, and you will need to enable 'EC3 for BIM 360' as an app in your account.

If you don't have an EC3 account, you can register for a free account at https://buildingtransparency.org/auth/register
If you haven't enabled EC3 for BIM 360, open the Account Admin page on https://docs.b360.autodesk.com, select the Apps tab, find the EC3 for BIM 360 app, and enable it.  This is an account-level setting, so it only needs to be done once and applies to all users on the BIM 360 Account.
If your account has <100 users, you may need to send a request to bim360appsactivations@autodesk.com to enable apps activations before you can add EC3.
 EC3 supports Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox, but not IE11.

The Wild for BIM 360

From the Autodesk App Store:

This Integration allows you to access all your BIM 360 Docs files directly in The Wild. Learn more about The Wild on our Website.

Coordinate and Align
Now you can experience your BIM 360 models in VR or AR with up to eight people at a time, in a Space that evolves with your project. Coordinate and collaborate immersively across project teams—your model will always be up to date in The Wild, creating a single source of truth for everyone.

Collaborate from Anywhere
Colleagues, clients, and teams can join from VR or desktop (macOS and Windows), making collaboration possible from anywhere in the world, no headset necessary. For added context, view your models on-site in augmented reality using our iOS app.

Make Decisions Faster
Collaborating and coordinating at the human scale helps you go from design to construction more efficiently. Make better decisions, catch errors, and provide valuable context for your teammates and stakeholders. The Wild makes it easy for your team to experience your work together at 1:1 scale.

Supported File-types through Document Management
rvt, nwd, sch, dxf, f3d, iam, idw, ipt, max, sldprt, catpart, x_b, wire, vue, skp, dgn, 3dm, msr, neu etc.

OpenSpace for BIM 360

From the Autodesk App Store:

OpenSpace's proprietary Vision Engine captures 360 video and photos passively, without any extra labor. Just tap record on your smartphone when you start your normal site walks and that's it. The system’s always learning - the more you walk your site, the faster OpenSpace works, providing actionable documentation in minutes, not hours or days.

OpenSpace’s turnaround speed goes beyond photo documentation to unlock workflow improvements. OpenSpace seamlessly integrates with industry tools including Autodesk® BIM 360™, making communication, reporting, QA/QC, RFIs and pay apps more efficient. Use our “Link to BIM 360” button to bring data directly from the field into daily construction workflows, and use our fully featured BIM Viewer to do side-by-side as-built comparisons in just a few clicks.

Generate Issues or RFIs. Create new or link to existing Issues.

Leica BLK3D for BIM 360

From the Autodesk App Store:

When reporting issues from field to office, Autodesk® BIM 360® has very powerful tools to do so. In the field, the user can report an issue by location, type, text and photo. This issue can be assigned to the responsible user. With the BLK3D integration, additionally, the user can add real measurable information to the issue. This means a human error of measurements or forgotten measurements are eliminated. When the issue is reported, the assignee has all the required information to respond.

To be able to use the BLK3D integration, the user must have a Leica BLK3D imager and a BIM 360 integration software package for BLK3D. Please visit the following website for more information:

https://shop.leica-geosystems.com/learn/reality-capture/blk3d