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Thursday, September 19, 2024

Speckle – The Free Platform For 3D Data

From the Speckle website:

The world runs on 3D: designers, engineers, hackers and entire organizations rely on us for interoperability, automation and collaboration to deliver better, together.

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RV DeepClean – All Revit Model Cleaning Functions in One Place

From the RV Boost website:

Is your Revit file size getting out of control? Use RV DeepClean to make your Revit model light, fast and easy to share again! Get a free trial below to enjoy:

Over 40 (and growing!) battle-tested cleaning functions, All in one place,

Options to clean your Revit file as much or as little as you want,

Applying your BIM standards while reducing file size.

GET IT FREE HERE!

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Pirros – Serious Detail Management

From the Pirros website:

It’s time to modernize your firm’s detail management

Pirros is a modern approach to detail management – analyzing the thousands of new details you design every year, and aggregating the right ones into a cloud-based library of details.

Your details have the potential to be your firm’s superpower

Only a fraction of information gets captured in your firm's detail library. Pirros unlocks all the information that you currently can only access by digging through past projects.

Efficiency

Our advanced search engine allows you to search all the metadata associated with a detail to locate it in under a minute, then pull it into Revit just as quickly — no waiting for a model to open or upgrade.

Autodesk Content Catalog – Centralize BIM Content with Cloud-Based Digital Asset Management

From the Autodesk website:

Improve efficiency and reduce rework

How can Content Catalog help you?

Content Catalog is a cloud-based digital asset management tool that enables customers to easily manage, distribute, and find the most up-to-date versions of their BIM content, like Revit families and AutoCAD blocks. It’s a single source of truth for storing, versioning, and accessing content and data—accessible at no cost to users with existing subscriptions that include Autodesk Docs.

Why use Content Catalog? 

Centralize digital assets 

Gain better control and accessibility by connecting your assets in a common data environment.

Unlock reliable data 

Avoid unnecessary rework by ensuring team members have access to the latest approved version of each digital asset.

Find content faster

Save time with a robust search system that uses a variety of filters and display options to locate BIM content quickly.

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Autodesk Informed Design for Revit – Design with Known-Manufacturable Building Products

From the Autodesk website:

Autodesk Revit 2024 or a more recent version, as well as Autodesk Docs are required to use Informed Design for Revit.

Download now

What is Informed Design for Revit?

Empower your designs with customizable, manufacturable building products for unparalleled certainty and quality. 

  • Template Discovery: Explore building product templates for seamlessly incorporating manufacturing-level detail into your design files.
  • Customization: Tailor building products to align with your building's requirements, ensuring compliance with manufacturers' specifications.
  • Certainty: Confirm design decisions are accurate and manufacturable to reduce project risk and prevent errors. 

See Revit 2024 system requirements:

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Free Data Exchange for Dynamo (Early Access)

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The Autodesk® Dynamo® Connector allows you to create, share, and bring in exchanged data to and from other Autodesk and non-Autodesk applications, such as Autodesk® Revit®, Autodesk® Civil 3D®, Autodesk® Inventor®, Rhino, Grasshopper, Tekla Structures, and Power Automate.

For more information on how to get started and work with Data Exchanges, such as creating, updating, and loading the latest Data Exchanges, Please visit the Documentation section under resources on Autodesk Feedback Community Portal. 

Authentication: 

This app uses 3-legged Authentication for accessing ACC Accounts and projects for creating and loading exchanges.  

Monday, August 19, 2024

PushIt!

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

PushIt! will allow you to move elements to closer obstacles in a 3D View.

It will stop any visible element in the selected 3d view.

You can use the bounding box as the limit and also apply offset from the detected collision point.

Movements are restricted to horizontal and vertical main directions.

Sunday, August 18, 2024

4D BIM – Simulate the Work Schedules of Projects Within Revit

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Simulate the work schedule of your project (4D) in Autodesk® Revit®. Now you can create a S-Curve graphic of your project. 

Also you will be able to save drafting views with you Gantt graphic.

Export your 4D programming from Autodesk® Navisworks® or create it in Revit from scratch

Option 1:

In any Navisworks project, define your Planning 4D. Now you can export the 4D schedule of your project from Navisworks to Revit and view the execution of your project in your source BIM model:

Step 1: Export the information from Navisworks.

Step 2: From Revit load the information to your project.

Step 3: Simulate the schedule of your project and visualize the items in the form of a table and Gantt chart (4D)

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Our Newest Advertiser – CTC Software!

CTC Software has become Revit Add-ons latest advertiser, and the first to take advantage of our donation in lieu of pay offer. The offer is simple: instead of paying Revit Add-ons for advertising, donate the same amount to the charity of your choice. CTC donated to Meals on Wheels, and I must say, it made us feel good–as I'm sure it must have made them.

Our latest offer includes a 50% discount, so, if you've ever wanted to advertise on Revit Add-ons, there's never been a better time!

This is a return for CTC, as they advertised with us in the past, and we're happy to have them back! We've posted extensively about their products here on Revit Add-ons, their powerful suites, most of which include free tools. We just realized though that we've never done a product roundup of their offerings. We'll correct that oversight soon, maybe over the coming weekend. With their array of tools, it'll take awhile. Anyway, look for that in the coming days.

Welcome CTC Software, and thank you!

Want to know more about advertising on Revit Add-ons? Hit up this page. And remember, we're offering 50% off the published rates!

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

NCeption Viewer – For Use With NCeption Exporter

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

For use with NCEPTION EXPORTER (Sold Separately), Nception provides a fast, easy-to-use solution to take your projects to VR with a click of a button. 

Working with the light and materials settings in Autodesk® Revit® Nception lets you visualize and explore your designs in first-person, interactive 3D.

Perfect for testing various design scenarios before committing them to plan. Nception works on projects of all sizes and disciplines.

In Nception viewer access all the information about an object just by selecting it while you walk through your model.

Nception helps you quickly move from Revit to real-time with absolutely no additional effort. 

Understand your projects as never before and get things right from the start with Nception.

Viewer is now available for all Windows-based PCs.

Nception Exporter – Take Projects to Interactive, First-Person 3D Models That Include All the Project Data

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Note: Prerequisite Nception Viewer  app to be installed (Free app, download separately)

Nception provides a fast, easy-to-use solution to take your projects from Autodesk® Revit® to an interactive, first-person 3D model that includes all of the project data. 

Working with the light and materials settings in Autodesk® Revit®, Nception lets you visualize and explore your designs in first person, interactive 3D. Perfect for testing various design scenarios before committing them to plan.

Nception works on projects of all sizes and disciplines. In the Nception viewer access all the information about an object just by selecting it while you walk through your model.

Nception helps you quickly move from Revit to real-time with absolutely no additional effort.

Understand your projects as never before and get things right from the start with Nception. The Viewer is now available for all Windows-based  PCs (here).

Prerequisite: The Nception Viewer app must be installed to explore your .vim files

Full User Guide now available!

Thursday, July 25, 2024

TabManager – Colorize and Wrap Project Model Tabs Into Multiple Rows

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

TabManager: Open up new horizons in tab management!

In a world of rapidly changing technology and the need for prompt access to information, our latest TabManager add-on offers incredible possibilities for efficient work in Autodesk.

Color Highlighting: Distinguish project tabs from family tabs with intuitive color solutions. Active tabs stand out especially, so you can always quickly switch to the required document.



Wednesday, July 24, 2024

KLH Tools – General, Electrical, Mechanical and Model Management Tools

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Visit our YouTube channel for tool demos and instructional videos: KLH Engineers - YouTube

Request a personalized demo! Contact SoftwareSubscriptions@klhengrs.com.

General Bundle

Boost your Autodesk® Revit® toolbox with innovative tools designed to reduce design times by eliminating inefficient tasks while enhancing quality and increasing profitability. Quickly edit parameters in bulk, duplicate and flip families, match the location of tags and parameters, unhide elements, and more with the General Bundle.

Bulk Parameter Editor

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Id:door&window – Create Fully Configurable Parametric Doors and Windows

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

This add-in allows you, through a graphical interface, to create fully configurable parametric doors and windows from more than ten preset types, add them to your project and modify them easily and quickly.

More information

Main features:

  • Simple, fast and intuitive graphical interface
  • 10+ Door Types.
  • 10+ Window Types.
  • Imperial and metric units.
  • Set frame parameters.
  • Set sash and grid parameters.
  • Set sill and board parameters.
  • Set interior and exterior trim parameters.
  • Create custom windows by combining different types of sash into up to six individual panels.
  • Create custom doors by combining different types of panels.
  • Define the type parameters from the graphical interface.
  • Assign materials to each of the parts.
  • The name of the doors or windows can be defined automatically or customarily.
  • Windows created with id:window can be modified and edited with the same graphical interface.
  • Doors created with id:door can be modified and edited with the same graphical interface.
  • All families of doors or windows have shared parameters that allow them to be included in schedules.
  • The opening line can be shown or hidden.
  • Change the family to another from the graphical interface.
  • Three levels of detail: coarse, medium, and fine.
  • Set the horizontal cut plane of the custom window that will be shown in the floor plan.

Monday, July 22, 2024

Columns Automatically Created By Cad

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Typically, we need each column to be created in Autodesk® Revit® by clicking them one by one.

This app【 Columns Automatically Created By Cad tool 】converts the DWG File to automatically to Create Columns in Revit.

  1. Import .dwg in Revit.
  2. Choose column type
  3. Select column layer
  4. Automatically Created column

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Auto Finishes – Automatic Creation of Floors, Walls, and Ceilings

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Features

  • Automatic creation of floors, walls, and ceilings at the same time.
  • Use formatted Metric and Imperial units and formulas everywhere in Autodesk® Revit®.
  • Select ranges of rooms with advanced filters.
  • Give warning of types of walls that are too wide.
  • Joined finished geometry with the main walls.
  • Creates wall finishes around columns and wall edges.

The main features are the creation of separate floors, walls, and ceilings automatically for selected rooms in a project. You can add the finish to all rooms in one go if you wish. Curtain walls and room separators are ignored but the column and wall edges are "coated" with the selected wall type. Additionally, this plugin can be used for the creation of a skirting board around the edges of a room.

Friday, July 19, 2024

Free Dynamo Multiplayer 2.0 Released – New! Desktop Shortcuts That Batch Open and Process Revit Files With Dynamo

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Dynamo Multiplayer is a Free Autodesk® Revit® Add-In by Bird Tools. It is the ultimate universal Autodesk Revit batch processing tool, allowing the user to batch process several Revit models or families using one or multiple Dynamo scripts.

The range of functionalities offered by Dynamo Multiplayer is infinite, as the user can use it to batch export PDF, NWC, DWG, and IFC…files from Revit, to batch edit multiple Revit models, to achieve batch project setup, to batch perform quality assessment operations, to batch load families, to batch upgrade models, to batch edit families… and all of that using Dynamo, which provides the user with the highest level of flexibility. That makes Dynamo Multiplayer a universal batch processor for Revit.

Not only that, Dynamo Multiplayer takes Revit add-ins to a new unprecedented level, as it’s probably the first free non-Autodesk Revit add-in ever to support Autodesk® BIM 360®/ACC models through Autodesk Platform Services (APS, formerly Forge): the tool can batch process BIM Collaborate Pro (a.k.a BIM 360 Design) workshared models as well by retrieving them through APS, batch controlling them through the Revit API, and processing them using Dynamo.

Moreover, starting with v1.1, users can schedule automated Dynamo runs, so that multiple models can be automatically processed at a user-specified time, which can also be regular daily or weekly scheduled Dynamo runs, and starting with v2.0, those runs can also be sent to the user's Desktop as Desktop shortcuts.

Thursday, July 18, 2024

Free AXIS Plugin – 3D Camera Visualizations for Professionals

From the Axis Communications website:

Planning makes perfect

The AXIS Plugin for Autodesk® Revit® allows users to plan entire surveillance systems directly in Autodesk® Revit® building plans by giving users the ability to add cameras or other products quickly and easily to the plan. The plugin is fully integrated into Autodesk® Revit® projects with quick access to a wide variety of Axis products as realistic 3D models. The models provide complete 3D visualizations of CAD design, giving a simple, intuitive way to configure and verify coverage areas.


Wednesday, July 17, 2024

NonicaTab PRO Gets New Automatic Hangars Button

From LinkedIn:





NonicaTab PRO is brought to you by Nonica. It's priced at USD 9.00/month or USD 90.00/year. A free 30-day trial is available.

This add-in is compatible with Revit 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020. 

Download from the Autodesk App Store » 



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Monday, July 15, 2024

CTC Software Releases Nexus Suite – Includes Ally, a Guardian Competitor

CTC Software has released a new collection of tools named Nexus Suite. It contains Ally, a new apparent competitor to the well-established Guardian. It also contains PAL (Project Activity Logger), which is used to visualize how users work in Revit models. Lastly, it contains CMS (Content Management System), formerly known as Hive. I've no idea why they changed the name, Hive was so much better than a simple acronym. 

Nexus Suite is a seeming bargain, starting at USD 135.00/user/year. Volume discounts apply.

From the CTC Software website:

The Nexus Suite contains powerful tools comprising a system that enables organizations to take control of every aspect of their design processes and production.

Ally ensures that modeling practices and standards are encouraged and enforced in real-time production of Revit models. The flexible rulesets can be targeted to all users, specific projects and groups based on the objects they affect or the actions of the Revit operator.

PAL (Project Activity Logger) is used to monitor, log and visualize the way an organization’s users work in Revit model. The online dashboards offer standard visualizations and with the available APIs, those interested in deeper dives or more customized reports can implement integrated BI consoles to their specifications.

Sunday, July 14, 2024

CUKON – For Working with Structural Reinforcement

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

TagAll button will tag all structural rebars in an active view. In settings you can select witch rebar tag do you want to use for multi rebar annotation or for single rebar annotation. Also if you Override Graphic in View → By Element → Halftone, TagAll button will ignore this rebars.

Saturday, July 13, 2024

TimeTracker – Track the Time Spent in Revit Projects

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Time Tracker is an application compatible with Autodesk® Revit® program, easily tracking the time spent on each of your projects in a created txt file. Turn it on once when you start working on a project and it will automatically start always when you open the project again. This tool is essential for you to keep track of your work. 

After pressing the START button in the application, Time Tracker creates a txt file in which the individual days and times spent on your project are recorded. It adds up to the total work time in the last line at the bottom. There is an option to set the length of an inactive time - the time of being inactive in your project after which the recording of your work will stop automatically and it will turn on again as soon as you start working in the Revit file (e.g. if you run for lunch). Time recording can be also stopped at any time by pressing the STOP button. You can easily find and edit or delete a TXT file.

Friday, July 12, 2024

Geberit BIM Plug-in – Manufacturer-Specific MEP Content

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

To support MEP design and planning, Geberit offers manufacturer-specific BIM content in addition to conventional CAD data and intelligent tools. The Geberit BIM content consists of parametric 3D models that contain article-specific meta information. This facilitates MEP design and planning with Geberit products in the Autodesk® Revit® planning software from the early stages of design to facility management. 

Main advantages.

  • A single integrated Plug-in that brings together all previous Geberit planning and calculation tools for Revit
  • Straightforward sanitary planning with up-to-date, complete, and valid BIM content
  • Lightweight and simplified geometry, Geberit BIM objects meet the requirements of all planning and construction phases, right through to facility management 
  • Worldwide planning application. Geberit BIM objects are available in 35 national languages and 41 local assortments.

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Blocks – Add Curated Families with a Single Click

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Welcome to a new era of Autodesk® Revit® design :)

With the Blocks Plugin, you can easily add any parametric family to your Revit project with just a single click.

Every week, new furniture and decorative families are added to the library, ensuring that users are always up to date with the latest trends in architecture and interior design.

Features:

  • Free Download: Get started with the free version and access a diverse range of families.
  • One-Click Magic: Add families seamlessly to your projects with just a single click.
  • Smart Searching: Easily find families using our intuitive search bar.
  • Personal Favorites: Bookmark your frequently used families for quick access.
  • Weekly Inspirations:  Every week, discover new collections of dynamic families with different themes.
  • Top Manufacturers: Discover products from renowned national and international brands.
  • Language: Available in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

AG Hanger Generator

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The Hanger Generator creates hangers automatically on MEP linear elements such as pipes, ducts, and cable trays.

  1. The Add-In includes Eleven hanger models: Rectangular rail, Rectangular, Circular Hanger Duct, Round Base Hanger, Circular clamp, Clevis, Bend hanger, Hanger Base Pipe, Hanger Base Duct, Hanger Base Cable tray and Hanger Vertical Pipe.
  2. The hangers automatically detect structural elements to hang from, you can choose structural floors, structural framing, or both (Element and Links).
  3. The Add-In can place the hangers along with the elements (DUCTS, PIPES, and CABLE TRAYS) automatically.
  4. The Add-In will change the hanger size due to the change in element size.
  5. The Add-In will change the hanger offset due to the change in element offset.
  6. The Add-In can work with sloped elements.
  7. The user can choose to enter the distance between hangers in mm.
  8. The Add-In can place the first hanger and specify the distance between the first hanger.
  9. The user can create hangers on several elements on different levels at the same time.
  10. The Add-In detects insulation and works with it.
  11. The Add-In runs on Autodesk® Revit® 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 2024 and 2025.

Monday, July 8, 2024

Leia – A Free glTF Exporter

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Leia is a glTF exporter for Autodesk® Revit®. Export any 3D model to use in the cloud or in any other tools.

The .glTF file format offers an extensive array of features and is compact in size, making it highly advantageous. By utilizing this plugin, you can easily transform your Revit Design into a .gLTF file format, enabling you to incorporate your Revit Model across various platforms such as Unity3D, Unreal Engine, and the Web.

In today's world, the .gLTF file format has become increasingly popular for AR/VR applications due to its rapid loading speed and minimal file size. Consequently, the output file produced by this plugin is ideal for AR/VR applications and game development platforms such as Unity.

About GlTF format: 

The.glTF file format is designed to reduce the size of 3D assets and the computational resources required to unpack and utilize these assets in modern web platforms. This format is built on a royalty-free specification that allows for the efficient transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models by any application. With *.glTF, you can benefit from a more streamlined workflow that allows for faster loading times and improved performance, making it an excellent choice for web-based 3D applications.

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Free Forgify Tools – Notes and To-Do List in Project, and a Filter Tool

Editor's Note: We posted several times before about My Notebook, which is now part of the expanded Forgify Tools.

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Forgify tools comes up with 3 handy commands:

  1. My Notebook: helps you to take notes right inside the Autodesk® Revit® Model. Since notes are saved in a cloud, when you share your model, the notes are automatically transferred.
  2. My Todos: helps you to add and track todos items of the project right inside the Revit Model. Your todos list is saved in a secured cloud when you share your model, the todos are automatically transferred.
  3. Filter tools: helps to filter the Revit model.

Monday, July 1, 2024

Free Align CAD – Align Linked CAD Files with a Reference Point

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

The plugin allows you to align your imported or linked CAD files automatically to a fixed common point in your project.

It's built for Autodesk® Revit® users when starting a new project for saving time in aligning DWG files.

It can be difficult when aligning DWG files manually in our projects by moving each file to the target point. That repetitive work takes a lot of time and effort, especially when working on a multiple floor project. This plugin was made for that aim, with two clicks you can automatically align your CAD files by selecting the DWG file first and the reference point in the second click then all your files will be aligned in the origin of the project.

When using this Plug-in, try not to select any element other than the DWG file, anyway the plugin, in most cases, does not allow you to select other elements (beams, columns, doors ...).

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Free BlinkC Category Visibility – Forget the Visibility/Graphics Window

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Switch Categories, CAD imports and Autodesk® Revit® links visibility with a single click.

Change category transparency on the fly.

Forget the Visibility/Graphics window.

Switching category visibility is one of the most frequently used functionalities in everyday Revit work.

Are you tired of opening the Visibility/Graphics window to see, what´s behind a wall?

With BlinkC you have everything right there. Just click on the category in the list to show it. Or just type the name of the category. Or drag a slider to set it's transparency.

Everything works on the fly without interrupting your work.

Friday, June 28, 2024

Free Share Model – Create a Shared Model and an NWC File in One-Click

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

This multifunctional plugin helps to automate the process of creating a Shared model and an NWC file in one click. It has a lot of useful utilities that will help you with customizing and cleaning your shared model from unused and unnecessary elements.

Key features:

  • Creating a shared model from the current work project;
  • Sorting base elements into base worksets;
  • Adding prefixes and postfixes to a new model;
  • Exporting a 3D view to an NWC file (needs Autodesk utility to be installed);
  • Deleting view, sheets and schedules in the shared model;
  • Changing offset of the level boundary;
  • Unloading link files in the shared model;
  • Archiving the already existing shared model;

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Pollination – The Complete Building Performance Simulation Platform

From the Pollination website:

Stop redrawing analytical models from scratch!

Pollination is the complete building performance simulation platform that helps you generate models, run simulations, and deliver trustworthy results. From the creator of Ladybug Tools!

Revit Plugin

Do you spend hours of your valuable time re-creating Revit models from scratch just so you can use them for energy and daylight simulation? If you answered yes, then you will fall in 💖 with the Pollination Revit Plugin.

The Revit Plugin allows you to extract analytical models directly from your design model to get real-time insight on energy consumption, daylight, and thermal comfort. Use the Revit Plugin as a stand-alone application or combine it with Pollination's cloud-computing capabilities, verified simulation recipes, and collaboration features for the ultimate environmental analysis experience.🚀

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Free KennySTRUCT – Increase Productivity and Save Time on Structural Projects

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Main Features

  • Structural Views (automate callouts, sections and detail views for beams, columns and walls)
  • Rebar Visibility (hide and show rebars in views)
  • Rebar querying and modification tools (select rebar hosts, delete rebars, copy rebars)
  • Rebar documentation tools (Hide and tag multi-rebars, tag rebars in section and assign rebar layers)
  • Drawing production and documentation (Create sheets and places views in sheets)
  • Foundation coordinates and Pile numbering
  • Modify elements (Beams in Beam systems, Allow Beam end joins)
  • Merge elements (Merge colinear beams, merge multiple planar slabs

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Free Encryption Tool

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

After encryption, the model cannot be modified.

The model effect and viewing attributes can be displayed, which facilitates communication through the model, but at the same time protects files from being misappropriated by others and protects labor results.

Monday, June 24, 2024

Free Engineering on Demand Add-in – Instant Feedback for Architects on HVAC Space Requirements

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Engineering On Demand puts the architect back in the driver’s seat by giving them instant feedback on HVAC space requirements.  The plugin does this by producing a separate, automatically generated, HVAC model based on the architect’s model.  It then imports “Placement Blocks” that represent the size and shape of the HVAC space requirements into the architectural model, which the architect can then move around the project to better fit the building.

As the project grows, changes and information is added, the architect can re-run the plugin to see the impact on the HVAC space requirements.

The plugin can be used with “rule-of-thumb” engineering values, so even if you don’t have windows or thermal properties defined yet, it can still provide a good estimate of mechanical room space requirements.

The engineer who receives the model can then use Ripple’s HVAC Toolkit to make any modifications they see fit. This fosters better communication between the architect and engineer, which leads to a smoother and quicker design process.  Most importantly, it removes surprise mechanical room requirements that always seem to come at the end of the job.

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Ripple HVAC Toolkit – An Impressive Free Productivity Suite

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Easy Button
One button for:

  • Load calculations, ventilation calculations, zoning.
  • Diffuser selection and layout.
  • VAV selection.
  • Simply link in the architectural model and hit the easy button.



Saturday, June 22, 2024

Product Roundup – Bird Tools' Add-ins

From the Autodesk App Store:

Building Information Researchers and Developers OÜ

Building Information Researchers and Developers OÜ is a BIM Research & Development company that mainly specializes in the development of productivity tools for several Autodesk® products and based on several Autodesk® APIs, such as that of Revit®, Forge® (now known as APS, or Autodesk® Platform Services), Navisworks® and AutoCAD®.

The entire pack of tools published by BIRD OÜ is known as BIRD Tools (in case you're asking yourself: "Why is it called Bird Tools?"). Every tool can be purchased or downloaded separately, or as part of a discounted multi-seat pack. You may find more information about the pack of apps by visiting the Bird Tools App Store.

As for who we are...

...we are a software development unit that makes it its priority to drive change within the AEC industry. Our goal is to be different, and make a difference. Thus, and with the support of an awesome community of AEC professionals and product users, we dedicate our time to explore and research every possible aspect of every available API to conceive innovative workflows, aiming to introduce our share of disruption into an industry that is as old as time itself.

Throughout the years, a diversity of users located all around the world have supported and trusted us and benefited from our tools and services. The worldwide trust, support, and positive feedback (of which we selected a handful of testimonials that may be found on the site's homepage) that we were privileged with is what plants seeds of motivation into our journey of innovation...

Free Bird Tools - CAD Block Remapper – Map Families to Linked CAD Blocks

\From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Bird Tools - CAD Block Remapper is a FREE app by Bird Tools, that is both an Autodesk® AutoCAD® and an Autodesk® Revit® add-in: It allows the user to map families to linked CAD Blocks and would place the family instances on their correct locations.

No CAD import, nor Import Explosion are involved in the process, only CAD linking, as the CAD files are automatically processed by the AutoCAD add-in part of the app. The app also supports Autodesk Docs Cloud hosted CAD Links.

It supports both hosted and non hosted families and can host families on both the nearest ceiling and the nearest wall, with an option to specify vertical offsets. The tool also automatically detects the

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

The AVAIL Team Asks, "Can a Custom Chatbot Help Your Firm?"

From the email:

Dedicated to helping AEC professionals find the information they need faster, AVAIL has been experimenting with custom chatbots that can read firm-specific materials such as onboarding documents or historical RFPs and answer questions about them quickly. 

Discover more about the project and how you can test your own custom chatbot in our latest blog.

Read Blog


Interested in a custom chatbot for your firm? Register Interest



AVAIL is priced at USD 20.00/month or USD 200.00/year. A free version with limited functionality is available. 

Download from the AVAIL website » 



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