Critical Mass – 5-Star Rated Add-ins* on the Autodesk App Store for End-of-Year 2018, Now Expanded!

Peer reviews can help one to decide on apps to use or purchase. Unfortunately, reviews on the Autodesk App Store can be hard to come by. Apps that have thousand of downloads can have just a few reviews. Furthermore, the App Store's sort-by-rating function doesn't take the number of reviews into account.

Listed below for your convenience are the 5-star rated Revit-related add-ins on the App Store with at least four reviews, sorted by number of reviews, highest to lowest. Add-ins are also separated between free and paid.

This is our second biannual listing. This time out, we've added add-ins for the other applications on the App Store that we cover: Navisworks, BIM 360, Advance Steel, and Robot Structural Analysis.

The add-in that gained the most votes since our last listing was Enscape™  with 14 (for 38 total). For free add-ins, TransferSingle received 10 new votes (for 42 total). The add-in debuting with the most votes is DPR Model Slicer with 12.

And remember, reviews are important. Please take a few minutes to share your own 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 | Free
★★★★★ (99 reviews ⁺² )

Palladio X BIM WindowsLayout
Arrange windows by a scheme | Free
★★★★★ (61 reviews ⁺⁶ )

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Nov 19 - Dec 2, 2018

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about the self-explanatory Auto Numbering, the free Column Panel, for placing panel slabs on structural columns at specified levels and more, OpenLM, for "licenses on premise," SOFiSTiK Analysis + Design, for structural engineering, and the self-explanatory WarningManageEz.

From around the Internet, we posted about the free FenestraPro Linc, for accessing live manufacturer data and information. We also posted about the GAMUT tools for family library browsing and management:

• Free GAMUT|USER – A Better way to Search and Load BIM Content – an Editor's Choice Award winner!
• Free GAMUT|MANAGER – The Easiest Way to Manage Your Firm’s BIM Content Library – an Editor's Choice Award winner!
• GAMUT | USER(PRO) – Search and Load BIM Content Ad Free
• GAMUT|PARAMETERS – Manage Family Parameters in Libraries in Batch
• GAMUT|MINION – Make Changes to Families in Libraries in Batch Using a Spreadsheet

Roundup – for Nov 26 - Dec 2, 2018, New and Updated Revit-Related Add-Ins on the Autodesk App Store

The week of November 26, 2018 was a fairly busy one, though nothing dropped until Friday – the administrator must have been on vacation – making it a very busy weekend for us indeed. Five new add-ins were published and ten were updated.

Revit

New

Auto Numbering
Digitteck® AutoNumbering™: You can automatically renumber (marks): Rooms, Doors, Windows You can use the composer to add prefixes and suffixes to the number (mark) | USD 19.00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 11/30/2018 – First Release

OpenLM - For Engineering Licenses On Premise
OpenLM is a software license monitoring and management system for optimizing the usage of your software licenses | Trial
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 4.4.22.151, 11/29/2018 – Software License Cost Savings Guarantee. We are so confident in the ROI of our system, that we guarantee OpenLM will let you save at least 15% on your engineering software license expenses (including software renewals and new purchases). If after the first three months, it does not enable you to do this, you will receive one year of maintenance, free.

OpenLM - For Engineering Licenses On Premise

From the Autodesk App Store:

OpenLM is a software license monitoring and management system for optimizing the usage of your software licenses.

It shows you application usage patterns and statistics to help you ‘stretch your expensive software licenses to their limit’.

OpenLM for Engineering Licensing is the main product package of OpenLM; it provides all the essential engineering software license tracking capabilities and reports for optimizing your software inventory.

Roundup – For Oct 22-28, 2018, New and Updated Revit-Related Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store

Revit

New

Drawing Manager 2018
With Drawing Manager for Autodesk® Revit® you can easily export your drawings | USD 50.00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.1.2, 10/24/2018 – First version in the app store

Drawing Manager 2019
With Drawing Manager for Autodesk® Revit® you can easily export your drawings | USD 50.00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.1.1, 10/24/2018 – First version in the app store

Dynamic Quantities
Measure quantities of materials in real time | USD 7.00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 10/22/2018 – First Release

Roundup – For Oct 15-21 2018, New and Updated Revit-Related Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store

The week of October 15, 2018 was a very quiet one for Revit-related add-ins on the Autodesk App Store. One new add-in was published and four were updated.

Revit

New

Conduit Audit
Conduit Audit will push specific parameter values through the conduit branch or the entire conduit network, to help keep parameters up-to-date as changes are made to the conduit system | USD 3.00/M
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 19.0.5, 10/9/2018 – Initial Public Release

Updated

Duct Hangers 2019

This tool is designed to place hangers along the Ducts automatically | USD 7.00/M

☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 10/17/2018 – Initial Release

Roundup – For Sep 17-23, 2018, New and Updated Revit Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store

The week of September 17, 2018 was a moderately busy one for Revit-related add-ins on the Autodesk App Store with four new add-ins published and another twelve updated.

Revit

New

Megara 2D Array
Adds the long awaited Feature "2D array" to your Autodesk® Revit® | USD 10.00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 9/19/2018 – Initial Release.

Automatic Tag Stacker
Stacks similar Autodesk® Revit® tags and tag leaders automatically to form one multileader tag | USD 10.00/Y
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 9/18/2018 – Initial Release

JTB Sheet Set Publish for AutoCAD and Autodesk Advance Steel

From the Autodesk App Store:

JTB Sheet Set Publish is an app for Autodesk® AutoCAD® that publishes sheets in Sheet Sets, layouts in other drawings, folders or drawings in DSD files to files like PDF and DWF. The files created are named as you want based on a naming formula that you specify. Use date fields and/or sheet properties of your choice to build up the output filename.

JTB Sheet Set Publish version 2.2

Roundup – For Sep 10-16, 2018, New and Updated Revit Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store

The week of September 10, 2018 was a busy one for Revit-related add-ins on the Autodesk App Store. Six new add-ins were published and another eighteen were updated.

Revit

New

Ez-ISO Trial
App is used for the automatic production of Piping Isometric Drawings from Autodesk® Revit® with the proprietary ISO engine made by HUENSYSTEM. It will help shortened your workload | Trial
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 9/14/2018 – Initial Version Release

Butterfly
Generate colorful 3D diagrams out of room elements in an Autodesk® Revit® project | USD 5.00/M
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 0.1, 9/10/2018 – Initial version.

Free Palette Auto-hide Speed for AutoCAD and Advance Steel

From the Autodesk App Store:

With this app you will be able to change the time it takes to show/hide or roll-up/roll-out the palette windows in Autodesk® AutoCAD®.

You can see the effect with palettes like Properties, Quickcalc, External References, Sheet Set Manager, Markup Set Manager, Shared Views and Visual Styles Manager set to auto-hide.

Super Duper Mega Colossal-Size Roundup – For Jul 16 - Sep 9, 2018, New and Updated Revit Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store

We fell further behind with our "weekly" Autodesk App Store roundups than we ever had before, and this post covers eight weeks. Over that period, 27 new Revit-related add-ins were published, and another 99 were updated. Some add-ins were even both newly published and then subsequently updated within that time frame.

Revit

New

Files Rename V.2019
The tool is designed to rename all file types (.rvt, .dwg,.xls, etc.....) files or any other file types | USD 1.99/M
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 9/4/2018 – Initial Release

Colossal-Size Roundup – For Jun 18 - Jul 15, 2018, New and Updated Revit Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store

We fell significantly behind last month, resulting in this normally weekly post becoming an outsized monthly one.

The weeks of June 18, June 25, July 2, and July 9 combined to make it a busy period for Revit-related add-ins on the Autodesk App Store. Twelve new add-ins were published and another fifty-eight were updated.

For new add-ins, for Revit, Avoid Clashes is for easily detecting and highlighting clashes between elements, Batch Hide / Unhide Links in Views is for hiding/unhiding linked files in multiple views, Batch Purge files location's is for purging unused project locations, BIM BOQ Quantifier is for generating bills of quantities, CG Finder is for calculating centroids of solid elements, Delete Filters is for quickly deleting view filters from projects, Kreo plugin is for exporting to Kreo, a cloud-based 4D, 5D, and BIM-based bid pricing solution, Light Distribution is for distributing lighting fixtures and devices in rooms, MagiCloud Connect is for downloading select MEP content, ViewFilterEz is for helping to manage view filters in one or more projects, and ViewIT is for optimized view navigation. For Autodesk Advance Steel, License Borrowed Dialog Closer is for closing License Borrowed dialog boxes automatically.

For updated add-ins, BIMcollab® BCF Manager for Autodesk® Navisworks®, BIMcollab® BCF Manager for Autodesk® Revit®, Dimensions by line, Door Factory Preview, ElumTools, Enscape™, IFC 2018, IFC 2019, Kubity Exporter, Preview Image Generator (P.I.G.) Batch!, and Revision + Cloud Manager each received relatively significant refreshes.

REVIT

New

CG Finder 2018
An Add-In for Autodesk® Revit® 2018 to calculate the centroid of a solid element or group of solid elements | Free
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 2018.1.0.1, 7/12/2018 – First release of CG Finder.

Free License Borrowed Dialog Closer for AutoCAD & Autodesk Advance Steel

From the Autodesk App Store:

Do you use a borrowed network license and want to prevent the "License Borrowed" message from showing up every single time you start Autodesk® AutoCAD®?

[The license on this machine has been borrowed from a license server. You can continue to use this product during the borrow period without a connection to the license server. The borrow period for this license expires on: … To access the product again after the license expires, you must reconnect to a license server.]

With this freeware for AutoCAD and verticals it is possible. It will automatically close this dialog box for you.

Add-ins tab

Roundup – For Apr 23-29, 2018, New and Updated Revit Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store (Updated)

The week of April 23, 2018 was a busy one for Revit-related add-ins on the Autodesk App Store. Four new add-ins were published, ad another twenty-two were updated.

For the new add-ins, for Revit, Advanced Revision Cloud offers advanced tools for managing revision clouds. For Navisworks, TouchIT enables touch gestures and Publish to Mobile View is for publishing Navisworks models for easy offline viewing on mobile phones and tablets. For Autodesk Advance Steel, JTB BatchAttEdit is for batch editing attributes in a spreadsheet.

For updated add-ins, BIMcollab® BCF Manager for Autodesk® Navisworks®, Kubity Exporter, and workFlow each receive relatively significant refreshes.

This was the first week that all four applications we cover on the App Store (Revit, Navisworks, BIM 360, and Autodesk Advance Steel) had at least one update.

REVIT

New

Advanced Revision Cloud
This add-in will help you manage your Revision Clouds with Advanced Tools | USD 19.00
★★★★★ (1 review)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 4/23/2018 – I created this program in 2011 for my personal use. Over the years I have improved it a lot and now I bring you a fantastic version.

Updated

PurgeSharedParam
Remove shared parameters from the Active Document | USD 10.00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.6.0, 4/27/2018 – Revit 2019 update

BindSharedParam
Add multiple Shared Parameters to Projects, Templates and Families.
USD 10.00
★★★★★ (2 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.4.0, 4/27/2018 – Revit 2019 update

JTB BatchAttEdit for Autodesk Advance Steel

From the Autodesk App Store:

This batch attribute editor app for AutoCAD collects attributes in all blocks of specified name patterns in multiple drawings and display in a wide spreadsheet. Then you can edit attribute texts as easy as working with Excel. Once done, click "Apply Attribute Changes" to update values to drawings.

This makes it a great app to for example edit title block attributes across many drawings instead of having to do it one drawing at a time.

Export to Excel and import to Excel makes it possible to make changes using Excel an option.

How the app works

Roundup – For Apr 16-22, 2018, New and Updated Revit Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store

The week of April 16, 2018 was a fairly busy one for Revit-related add-ins on the Autodesk App Store. 4 new add-ins made their debut and another 12 were updated. 20 apparently false updates were also published.

For the new add-ins, Automatically offset in Ceiling _2017 is for automatically placing floating elements on ceilings. Extract family names from folder_2018 is self-explanatory, NavVis IndoorViewer Add-In for Autodesk® Revit® is for integrating BIM models with NavVis reality capture technology, and the free Sketchfab is for exporting Revit models directly to Sketchfab.

For updated add-ins, BIMcollab® BCF Manager for Autodesk® Revit® and BIM Track™ each received relatively significant updates.

REVIT

New

Sketchfab
Export to Sketchfab directly from Autodesk® Revit® | Free
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 4/19/2018 – Initial release

Extract family names from folder_2018
This tool is designed to automatically extract family names | USD 3.99/M
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 4/18/2018 – Initial Release

The Week that was in Revit Add-ons for November 20-26, 2017

The week of November 20, 2017 was a busy one here on Revit Add-ons with 37 posts published.

New

Revit

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about IDEA StatiCa Connection, for analyzing, designing and checking steel connections and joints, Polygon Select, for selecting elements using irregular polygon shapes, and SheetEz, for more easily and powerfully managing sheets.

From around the Internet, we posted about the free BIMcollab ZOOM, for IFC model viewing and validation.

BIM 360

From the App Store, we posted about the free Voice 360, for controlling the Forge Viewer with voice commands.

Roundup – For November 20-26, 2017, New and Updated Revit Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store

The week of November 20, 2017 was a moderately busy one on the Autodesk App Store. One new Revit add-in was published, along with five being updated. Two Autodesk Advance Steel add-ins were updated. One new BIM 360 add-in was published. And one Navisworks add-in was updated.

Unfortunately, there were as many possible false updates last week as there were legitimate changes.

For new add-ins,  Polygon Select is for selecting elements in Revit using polygon shapes, and Voice 360 is for executing Forge viewer commands using voice recognition.

REVIT

New

Polygon Select
To select multiple elements, draw a polygon shape then the elements will be selected in this polygon area | USD 2.00/Y
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 11/21/2017 – First Version

Updated

Preview Image Generator (P.I.G.) Free Version!
In one click, create a consistent & clear preview image for your open Autodesk® Revit® family! No other add-in will provide this much satisfaction with so little effort! | Free
★★★★★ (5 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.1.0, 11/24/2017 – Now, your settings are automatically synchronized with your cloud account. This version is fully functional and thoroughly tested.  We are committed to even further improvements to P.I.G.!

BIMReview Import/Export for Autodesk Advance Steel

From the Autodesk App Store:

Users of Autodesk® Advance Steel now have a more direct flow of information between Advance Steel and StruMIS. Previously having to rely upon on the SMLX file export (previously GTCX) from Advance Steel to get the necessary information transferred to StruMIS. This addin outputs a BIMReview BSWX file which is native to StruMIS reducing the number of file read errors and producing a more tailored output file.

Fabrication information can also be imported back into Advance Steel via BIMReview BSWX file where the user will be given the option to map specific attributes from the BIMReview file to fields in the Advance Steel model.

Graitec PowerPack for Advance Steel

From the Autodesk App Store:

GRAITEC PowerPack for Advance Steel is packed with tools and utilities that deliver more functionality, better control and more automation for Advance Steel users across all industries.

This is the Full version -12 month Desktop Subscription. Purchasing a subscription for PowerPack for Advance Steel entitles the user to run both PowerPack for Advance Steel 2016 and PowerPack for Advance Steel 2017. Please use this link to access and install the PowerPack for Advance Steel 2016. 

A 5-day Free Trial version of the PowerPack for Advance Steel 2017 is available on the Store here! 

*IMPORTANT: This app is FREE if you have purchased subscription for Autodesk Advance Steel from GRAITEC - please contact GRAITEC for more details* 

Multi-year, network and bulk subscription options available from GRAITEC direct: graitec.com/world

Languages available on installation: English, French, Czech, German, Italian, Polish and Romanian.