Free Webinar April 29: New TestFit Add-in for Revit

From the announcement:

Topic

TestFit Addin for Revit

Description

Join us for our webinar featuring the brand-new Revit add-in for TestFit clients. Moving beyond our Dynamo scripts, the TestFit Addin for Revit will allow users to easily create a Revit model from TestFit, handle Interior Fitouts and export kits-of-parts to TestFit.

Take advantage of TestFit for quick and fast feasibility studies, and avoid data drop by bringing it straight in to Revit for detailed documentation.

Time

Apr 29, 2022 12:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register for the webinar here »

Free Speckle: Open Source Data Platform

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Speckle is a platform with endless possibilities, organizations all over the world rely on our collaboration, interoperability and automation systems to deliver better buildings, faster.

Speckle is made of multiple parts, the main ones being the Web App and the Desktop Connectors.

This package includes a simple installer and manager for our Desktop Connectors.

Our Desktop Connectors are plugins for some of the most popular AEC software, including: 

• Autodesk® Revit®
• Autodesk® AutoCAD®
• Autodesk® Civil 3D®
• Dynamo
• McNeel Rhinoceros
• Grasshopper
• Unity
• Unreal Engine
• Blender
• Excel
• QGIS
• PowerBi
• Tekla
• ETABS
• ArchiCAD
• SketchUp
• ...with more on the way soon!

Formwork: Calculate Formwork Area

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Formwork Area is a plugin for Autodesk® Revit® that allows users to calculate the formwork area. This plugin allows the user to customize which face of the formwork to show up and also works with link models.

Main features:

• Calculate formwork area.
• Render formwork.

demo

hsbCLT: Detail Cross-Laminated Timber Projects

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

hsbCLT for Autodesk® Revit® works with native Revit® objects, seamlessly transitioning from architectural design to fabrication. It enhances the hsbDesign platform to detail cross-laminated timber (CLT) projects. It is a toolset of lamella layers connected to form high-density wall, floor, and roof panels, matched with tools to complete the design and production in CLT construction. Flexibility to define detailed panel styles, varying surface qualities, coupled together in a library with predefined grain directions aligned to spans of panels, can connect walls to floors to roofs. In addition, defining openings in walls can be filled with windows and doors automatically detailed to the manufacturing criteria. 

Standard connections like lap joints and joint boards are easily adaptable and supported by industry leaders and customizable electrical installations and HVAC configurations. In addition, the finalized outputs include detailed BIM production documents - compatible automated dimensioned layouts, material lists, and site assembly documents.

hsbCLT enhances the intelligence of Revit® built-in elements, making your models even smarter. Furthermore, through continuous integration with the latest production methods, hsbcad ensures limitless users' design, extending BIM possibilities with complementary hsbcad tools.

Free Export Schedule

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Adds the ability to export a schedule to an Excel file. Unlike the current export via a text format the app can respect font styles, column widths, merged column headers and background colors. 

Free Knauf Planner Suite: Insert Knauf Products & Systems Based on Simple Questions

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Knauf Planner Suite is your productivity tool for BIM planning. With its seamlessly connected product search, data validation, and tendering functions within one BIM plug-in it offers you an integrated solution that supports you at all stages of your planning journey.

The right product at hand 

The Plug-In allows you to find and insert Knauf products and systems directly within Autodesk® Revit®. Based on simple questions, it gives you an overview of systems that match your requirements. Furthermore, factors, such as regional availability, are considered to make sure that all recommendations are relevant for your project location – which is especially useful for cross-border projects. At the click of a button, BIM objects of your selected systems will be inserted into your BIM model including all relevant specifications.

Always up to date

Of course, BIM objects in the Plug-In are based on the most current data. To ensure this remains true for products you inserted into Revit in the past, the Plug-In features a data validation function. With this function you can easily check the accuracy of all Knauf systems in your model. Any objects with updated information can then be brought to the most current version at the click of a button.

Naviate Accelerate: A Productivity Suite of 50+ Tools

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The core in Naviate for Autodesk® Revit®

In Naviate Accelerate you will find all the common specifications and features for your Naviate for Revit. With your chosen discipline on top, you will have access to the Naviate best suited for your work tasks and project planning. 

The common ground in the industry

Naviate Accelerate contains all the features found across the AEC industries, from collaboration, productivity and documentation. With best-practice workflows and task management like Family Browser, Filter Elements, Sheet Manager, and Edit Parameters to mention a few.

Filter Elements

Filter any object based on type or instance parameter value from the entire project. You can combine filters and save them for reuse. If it's in Revit you can filter it.

Filter any object based on type or instance parameter value from the entire project.

homeAR Connect

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The homeAR platform is purpose-built to display home designs in Augmented Reality with just a phone or iPad. The homeAR mobile app allows you to deliver designs in full-scale AR in the real world or in dolls house scale AR, providing an impactiful and informative way to present to clients.

homeAR connect provides a direct export from Autodesk® Revit® to the homeAR web portal where your models are optimized for AR and then published in the homeAR mobile apps

homeAR Connect features

• Export existing models from Revit to homeAR
• Requires a homeAR account

homeAR features

• Full Scale Augmented Reality view
• Dolls House Augmented Reality view
• Multi-user viewing (for viewing models on multiple devices simultaneously)
• Simple positioning tools
• Sharing and publishing tools (including QR codes)
• Webview (for browser viewing)

AGACAD Easter Sale: Save 50% Off Each Second License

From the announcement:

For a limited time, get 50% OFF on every 2nd license for annual subscriptions.

Why do you need to act now? Because time is money. The earlier you take advantage, the more you save. With AGACAD add-ins for Revit, you can:

• save time creating 3D models and project documentation in Revit 
• cut costs due to errors & minimize waste of materials
• increase the sustainability of projects

A Blog Post on Using AGACAD's Smart Browser, Plus a Free Webinar on April 14

From the AGACAD website:

April 12, 2022 Aleksandras Šeža

Make auditing your BIM data, Revit family browsing and management look easy

Having consulted Revit users from all over the world who work in lots of different types of design companies, I can say that Revit users generally face similar challenges in working with Revit families and managing projects and have needs like these:

Working with Revit families

• A quick and easy way to modify multiple families from different locations in one go;
• to see in one window all the changes to be applied to the families, from the addition of a new Type to a formula change inside a given parameter;
• to check every parameter of owned families and see if there are any duplicates or typos in naming;
• to standardize the parameter scheme in families.

NavVis IVION

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

NavVis provides an all-in-one reality capture solution that captures and visualizes indoor environments during the construction and operational phases. With NavVis IVION add-in for Revit, NavVis users can now improve BIM workflows by connecting Revit models to 360° immersive imagery and point clouds that display the current state of the building. With this add-in, users can:

• Create BIM models faster
• Compare as-built with as-is
• Spot differences visually
• Verify measurements remotely
• Collaborate with stakeholders online