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...

conVoid — Drive Efficiency Managing Openings, Penetrations and Recesses

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Use conVoid to drive efficiency and accuracy in creating, tracking, approving and managing openings, penetrations and recesses (voids). Create and update thousands of voids in your project in just a few minutes to reduce clashes.

Converting Elements to Openings, Penetrations and Recesses (Voids)

Based on a background interference check between current, linked, or IFC files, conVoid creates and converts voids with high accuracy. The quality optimization algorithm ensures that models can be used without model requirements. Voids can be created or converted based on all kinds of elements and can be linked to each other if required.

Tracking Changes and Updating

conVoid uses a unique tracking algorithm to identify and update voids throughout the whole designing process. Just use your current and external models, and conVoid will automatically inform you about any changes to keep your void coordination on track.

Approval, Management, and Export

Run your Approval and Management-Process with conVoid Manager. It displays the Drawn- and Approval-Status of the voids, which can be filtered and exported in multiple ways.

Furthermore, you can have the possibility to cut your voids with the Host-Element and start an interference check based on a clash zone to make sure the voids have a certain distance from each other.

Clash Preventor

From the Autodesk App Store:

The future of coordination lies in Clash Prevention.

Clash Preventor is an add-in for Autodesk® Revit® that allows the user to prevent clashes by running clash prevention tests while he/she works.

The tool automatically tests modified elements for clashes. A manual mode also exists allowing the user to check selected elements, visible in view elements, or all elements for clashes as well.

The user can filter elements by category, knowing that Revit Links and IFC links are supported by this tool as well.

When clashing elements are detected, the user is allowed to navigate and visualize clashes in 3D by automatically creating a section box around the elements, and has the ability to tile all open views when he proceeds to solve the clashes for better visualization. The built-in Clash Browser automatically generates a Clash Report that simplifies the clash resolution process, and that can be exported to an Excel compatible file format, which can be also imported later on.

This tool is a huge time saver as it prevents clashes without wasting the user's time, and because it helps reduce clashes it then reduces the time usually wasted on detecting and solving clashes through conventional clash detection tests.