Drafter: 180+ Productivity Scripts “By a Drafter, for Drafters”

Summary

Drafter is a Revit-focused productivity toolset designed to improve the speed, precision, and overall quality of drawing production. Created “by a drafter, for drafters,” it packages more than 180 Dynamo-based scripts into an accessible collection intended for users who want the benefits of automation without needing to learn visual programming or scripting. Its core purpose is to help teams produce cleaner, more consistent, and better-organized documentation with less repetitive manual effort.

Purpose and Design Philosophy

The tool is built around the idea that high-quality drawings depend on clarity, consistency, and attention to detail. It targets common drafting frustrations such as misaligned tags, inconsistent annotation placement, poorly organized views, and visual issues that become noticeable in exported PDFs. Rather than requiring users to build their own Dynamo workflows, Drafter turns those automations into easy-to-use tools that support everyday documentation tasks.

Key Capabilities

Drafter includes a broad set of scripts that assist with many parts of the Revit documentation process, including title lines, project browser organization, vertical views, viewports, sheets, scope boxes, title blocks, legends, schedules, revisions, text notes, tags, dimensions, filled regions, and family editor tasks. The collection is organized into 20 tool groups, making it easier for users to find scripts related to a specific type of drafting or documentation work.

Workflow Benefits

• Faster drawing production: Automates repetitive documentation tasks that would otherwise require manual setup, adjustment, or cleanup.
• Greater precision: Helps reduce visual inconsistencies such as misaligned tags, text notes, leaders, view elements, and other annotation-related issues.
• Improved consistency: Supports more standardized drawing output across sheets, views, tags, notes, dimensions, and schedules.
• Reduced need for Dynamo expertise: Gives users access to Dynamo-powered workflows through ready-made tools rather than requiring them to create scripts from scratch.
• Better documentation quality: Helps drafters and BIM teams produce drawings that appear more polished, organized, and professional.

Famiglia: Composite Family Round-Trip

Famiglia is a Revit add-in designed to streamline composite family creation, separation, and placement workflows without scripting or manual Family Editor work. It provides three ribbon-based tools: Join Family, Separate Family, and Place Along Curve.

Key benefits include a complete round-trip composite family workflow, accurate preservation of position and orientation, automatic Generic Model template discovery, configurable curve-based placement, and diagnostic log files for troubleshooting.

Join Family combines multiple selected project instances into a new composite family file. It automatically creates the family document, loads each selected component, preserves their positions and rotations relative to the group centroid, saves the new family temporarily, and reloads it into the project at the correct location. This reduces a workflow that might normally take 30–60 minutes manually to roughly 30 seconds.

Separate Family reverses this process by breaking a composite family instance back into its original individual components. It restores each component to its exact world position while preserving horizontal rotation and elevation. Once all eligible components are placed successfully, the composite family is removed. Components that cannot be placed by coordinate, such as some face-based elements, are skipped and reported with warnings.

Place Along Curve lets users select a model curve, choose a family type, and specify spacing in millimeters. The tool then places family instances evenly along the full curve length.

Free Auto Multisize Tags

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

When creating a Tag Family, it is a good thing to include different types with different text sizes. Setting up these families manually is quite long. Here is a free add-in to help you do that effortlessly.

Create one label with the desired text type, then use this tool to duplicate the label with new sizes and automatically generate the visibility parameters associated with all-new family types.

What the add-in actually does:

• Creates and names new family types
• Creates new text types with the desired text sizes
• Duplicates the existing label and applies the corresponding text sizes
• Creates and sets up new family parameters that will trigger the label's visibility according to the family type.
• Applies the family parameters values to the corresponding label's visibility

App workflow

Free Family Editor Interface v2.0

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 2.0, 10/4/2018

This is a complete rework of the Plugin with a lot of new Features.

• A brand new WPF based UI
• Shuffle Parameters - flexes the whole model for easy check-up
• Remove Unused Parameters 
• Context Menu which allows you to quickly Delete or Toggle between Type/Instance
• Rename 
• Hide unused Parameters
• Separate Group for System Parameters (cannot be deleted or renamed) 

Description

Family Editor Interface is a simple tool which gives a more interactive way of creating or editing Family Content. It gives a more visual control over the Family Bone-Muscle-Skin paradigm through manipulating the existing parameters within the Family Editor. Only usable in Family Editor Mode, it will allow the user to change parameter values on the fly, thus receiving immediate feedback on their actions.

Free Family Editor Interface Add-in

From the Autodesk App Store...

Family Editor Interface is a simple tool which gives a more interactive way of creating or editing Family Content. It gives a more visual control over the Family Bone-Muscle-Skin paradigm through manipulating the existing parameters within the Family Editor. Only usable in Family Editor Mode, it will allow the user to change parameter values on the fly, thus receiving immediate feedback on their actions.

The tool will detect when new parameters are added to the Family Types dialog and has additional 'Refresh Document' button to detect when new parameters are added on the fly. 'Refresh Document' is also useful when toggling between several different Family Projects.











About This Version
Version 1.0.0, 5/25/2016
Initial Release for Revit 2015, 2016, 2017.

The free Family Editor Interface add-in is brought to you by Archilizer.

There's more information available on the Autodesk App Store.