BIMS: A Broad Revit Productivity and Automation Suite

Summary

A multi-purpose Revit productivity suite for automating structural, architectural, MEP, parameter, geometry, and documentation workflows.

Overview

BIMS is a productivity suite for Autodesk Revit designed to automate repetitive modeling, quantification, detailing, data management, and exchange tasks. Unlike a narrow single-command add-in, BIMS bundles more than 30 specialized tools across general BIM production, structural workflows, geometry utilities, formwork, plastering, reinforcement, sanitary installations, DWG import, DWG sheet export, and Navisworks preparation.

Based on current online information, BIMS is positioned for structural, architectural, MEP, and BIM coordination teams that need to reduce time spent on element-by-element manual work. Its commands are designed to operate on multi-element selections, so tasks that would normally require repeated modeling, parameter editing, exporting, or quantity extraction can be completed in larger batches.

Primary Purpose

The primary purpose of BIMS is to speed up high-volume Revit production tasks while keeping results as editable native Revit elements whenever possible. This is important because many BIM workflows involve repetitive operations such as assigning nearest grids, copying parameter values, creating formwork surfaces, generating plastering quantities, placing reinforcement, exporting sheets, or preparing geometry for coordination. BIMS attempts to reduce these manual steps while preserving data that can be scheduled, tagged, reviewed, and modified inside Revit.

For BIM managers and production teams, the add-in is best understood as a workflow accelerator rather than a design-authoring replacement. It automates common tasks, proposes results for review, and helps teams produce quantities and documentation faster, but professional judgment and discipline-specific review remain necessary.

Kobi Toolkit for Autodesk Revit: A Broad, All-in-One Productivity Suite

Summary

Kobi Toolkit for Autodesk Revit is a productivity add-in from KobiLabs designed to enhance BIM workflows, reduce repetitive tasks, and extend Revit’s native capabilities. According to KobiLabs and the Autodesk App Store listing, the toolkit includes nine toolsets and more than 40 individual tools focused on BIM management, QA/QC, analysis, reinforcement, annotation, modification, view control, selection, and content administration.

Purpose and Positioning

The toolkit is intended for Revit users who need practical utilities that save time during model setup, documentation, model checking, data editing, and content management. Rather than focusing on one narrow workflow, it functions as a broad all-in-one productivity suite for design and BIM teams. Its strongest value is in helping users complete common model-management tasks faster and with fewer manual steps.

Main Toolsets

Kobi Toolkit is organized into nine toolsets: BIM Manager, QA & QC, Analysis, Reinforcement, Annotate, Modify, View, Selection, and Content Admin Kit. This organization makes the toolkit applicable to multiple stages of a Revit project, including project setup, model production, coordination review, documentation, reporting, and content library maintenance.

Key Features

BIM Query

BIM Query is one of the toolkit’s central features. It allows users to edit type and instance properties for selected Revit categories in a spreadsheet-style interface. The built-in editor supports common Excel-like functions such as sorting, filtering, and copying parameters. Users can also export schedule or model data to Excel, update it externally, and bring the revised data back into Revit. This makes BIM Query valuable for bulk parameter editing, schedule review, model data cleanup, and reducing repetitive manual property changes.

BIM Query

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.

Pirros—the Detail Management Software—is Adding Family Support

Pirros is introducing its new Families module, integrating Revit detail and family workflows into one platform. This early release offers users the ability to:

• Reveal connections between details and families
• Streamline tools into a single solution
• Fast family search with smart filters and 3D previews
• Confident placement with version control and traceability
• Precise loading from ACC, local files, or Revit 

More details to follow as they become available...

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Pirros is brought to you by Pirros. Pricing was not available at press time, but it appears that family management will be available for an additional fee beyond the cost of detail management.

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Free Family Manager Ez

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Family Transfer & Manager is a free Autodesk® Revit® add-in/plugin to help you to manage Revit families and parameters.

The app only supports Revit 2022 & above.

How it will help you?

1. Parameters:

• Rename parameters, you can add prefix, suffix or remove any words to all parameters.
• You do not open family but can quickly set formulas, delete parameters
• if you select multiple families at the same time, you can modify the same parameters between them.
• Copy formula from a family to other families

2. Families:

• Easy selection: Easily select the required Families
• Transfer command: Transfer all families between 2 projects (or from a linked project)
• Purge command: Purge all unused families, except annotation families.
• Export command: Export families to one folder or category folder
• Observation Mode: To find and isolate your family in the active view & also detect and unhide hidden family

BIMprove – A Free 5-Star Rated Productivity Suite

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

1) Geometry Converter:

This tool allows you to convert any type of geometry, whether it's a family or a Generic (Model In Place), into a regular editable Autodesk® Revit® family. It's extremely useful for modeling point clouds and complex architectural forms.

Key features:

• User-friendly window interface.
• Various element selection methods.
• Table of selected content.
• Settings that can help streamline the conversion process.
• Ability to select family units (metric/imperial) and language by choosing the appropriate family template.

Geometry Converter user window.

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From the AGACAD website:

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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.

Free Family Transfer & Manager

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Family Transfer & Manager is a free Autodesk® Revit® add-in/plugin to help you to manage Revit families in your projects.

How it will help you?

• Easy selection: Easily select the required Families
• Transfer command: Transfer all families between 2 projects (or from a linked project)
• Purge command: Purge all unused families, except annotation families.
• Export command: Export families to one folder or category folder
• Observation Mode: To find and isolate your family in the active view & also detect and unhide hidden family

Batch Export Families

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

In Autodesk® Revit®, you can easily export all the Families with the built-in function. But unfortunately, this function only allows you to export all the family in the model, and it would take a lot of time to wait until it finishes while you only need some families from the current model.

This add-in was created to help you easily export only the families you want to:

• Select to export Families from the whole model or current view. You can select to export the 3D Families or 2D (Annotation) family only.
• Select the families by category or name.

Free Duplicate Structural Family Types

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

This add-in helps you to create all the family types of categories (Columns, Framings, and Foundations) at once using an Excel sheet or by manually adding the types of data to an easy UI.

BIM SOFT SOLUTIONS All Tools Package

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

This package contains 7 main packages which contains 100 applications and it will accelerate your work in Revit 

1. BIM SOFT Tool Package  

This application contains 31 useful tools to facilitate work in Autodesk® Revit®.

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=1165803831326783009&appLang=en&os=Win64

2. MEP Package

This application contains 31 useful tools to facilitate work with MEP systems in Revit.

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=5142239976732836819&appLang=en&os=Win64

3. Sheet & views Packages

This application contains all the tools needed to work with sheets and views in Revit.

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=5700019929706677793&appLang=en&os=Win64

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=4838664307517378543&appLang=en&os=Win64

Realtime Toolkit

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Realtime Toolkit is a suite of utilities that automate common tasks in Autodesk® Revit®. Individually, these tasks are simple and mundane, however they are time-consuming, error-prone, and tedious. Moreover, they are tasks that most Revit users will (or should) carry out on a regular basis. Development of Autodesk® AutoCAD® utilities is ongoing and will be released at a future date.

The tools deliberately avoid high-end BIM analysis and functionality. From experience managing some of the largest mandated BIM projects in the world, significant inefficiencies and losses occur at the desktop, with the individual Revit user. This is a major point of neglect in the deliverables supply chain. We have designed Realtime Toolkit to equip each Revit user with the ability to quickly, easily, and accurately carry out repetitive tasks in order to save time and improve quality.

These savings are real, ongoing, and by virtue of being per user, will reduce documentation costs, to the delight of the Project Manager. Additionally, CAD-BIM Managers have full visibility of all Revit users, their files and system through the Revit Data Collector tool. Aside from Revit user and Revit file information, this tool records opening and closing file sizes and times. Most managers running design teams will have encountered the situation where a Revit project file goes rogue, and determining where, when who, and how is a time-consuming art. The Revit Data Collector will tell the CAD-BIM Manager exactly when a file changed significantly. The data can be imported into any system for analysis and graphing; it could be used to present a project’s health timeline.

All tools have a uniform interface, and are intuitive to use. The functions (and benefits) will be obvious to even inexperienced Revit users. All tools have an option to write a log file of the results.

Family Library Export

Ideate BIMLink v2020.1

From the Ideate Software website and the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 2020.1, 11/29/2019

• New “Beyond Schedules” folder to access non-schedule data such as text, dimensions, revision clouds and view templates
• A new customizable Home page with links to information to help users get up and running quickly
• The ability to create more elements from Excel via Ideate BIMLink, including sheets, model elements, views, viewports, levels and types
• New methods available for easy-to-deploy standardized network-hosted Ideate BIMLink content

All these enhancements have been added to Ideate BIMLink 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. Watch this video to learn more.

Description

Ideate BIMLink is the Autodesk® Revit® add-on that lets you access and edit Building Information Modeling (BIM) data quickly and easily to save you hours—even weeks—of valuable time. Ideate BIMLink helps BIM and VDC managers, project leaders, facility managers, and users analyze, extract, and edit important BIM data. With Ideate BIMLink, you can pull and push volumes of information from a Revit file— Architecture, Structure, & MEP— into user-friendly Microsoft® Excel® with speed, ease, and accuracy. A few of the tasks supported by Ideate BIMLink include:

CTC BIM Batch Suite 2020 v20.0.3

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 20.0.3, 8/14/2019

Project Processor --
New Feature:  File opening options: open detached, open and audit
New Feature:  Purge line patterns and fill patterns
New Feature:  File tasks can be reordered by dragging tab headers
New Feature:  Clearn line styles, fill patterns, viewport types
New Feature:  Parameter value options listed for and sheets are now dependent upon selected parameter
New Feature:  Clear settings button added

Plotter and Exporter --
Enhancement:  You can now export Model Compare files for projects with duplicate non-shared project parameters
Bug Fix:  Fixed an issue that prevented printing (including to PDF) to work when running on a schedule

Description

This setup will install add-in tools for Autodesk® Revit® 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

BIM Batch Suite provides tools to allow Revit users to process workflows en masse, with a focus on importing and exporting data.

Family Exporter (free)

This tool allows users to easily select specific families to export from projects, automatically create folder structure based on family categories and geometry, and add customized text to exported family names.

Family Exporter

CTC BIM Manager Suite 2020

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 20.0.3, 8/14/2019

Import and Link Manager --
New Feature:  Point cloud links are supported
New Feature:  On Revit links, the room bounding property can be adjusted

Project Cleaner --
Enhancement:  Improved processing time estimation and alerts with empty/used sort option is selected

Description

To purchase the full version of BIM Manager Suite through Autodesk App Store, click here

This setup will install add-in tools for Autodesk® Revit® 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. BIM Manager Suite contains the following tools:

Family Tools (free)

This tool contains a collection of utilities that assist with the family creation process, including: Deleting backup families, working with type catalogs and shared parameter files, listing the version of Autodesk® Revit® in which families were last saved.

Family Tools

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Family Package – A Budget-Priced Collection of Five Add-ins

From the Autodesk App Store:

This application contains 6 useful tools for families.

Batch Rotate Family
In Autodesk® Revit® you can't rotate more than one family at once.
This tool will enable you to rotate more than one family at once.

Match Rotation
The tool is designed to match loadable families rotation.
This tool will enable you to match element rotation in more than one element at once.
The tool works for loadable family only in this version and it will include all elements in later releases.

Batch Rename Families
The tool is designed to batch rename or modify family names inside Revit.
This will facilitate the process of maintaining standard family names inside your project.
Please note: Application works for only loadable families.

Family Names v2.0

From the Autodesk App Store:

Family Names has a simple yet intuitive design, you can rename families as simple as double clicking in the table and pressing save.

Family Names offers other features such as adding prefixes or suffices, find and replace.

You can easily change names from excel by saving the table in excel, changing the names there and importing the excel back in the app.
 
With family names you can also define rules to validate you desing names. You can also use a special composer designed to combine parameter values with the actual name so that naming is more suggestive.

Compose names using parameter information

Ideate BIMLink v2020.0

From the Autodesk App Store:

Ideate BIMLink is the Autodesk® Revit® add-on that lets you access and edit Building Information Modeling (BIM) data quickly and easily to save you hours—even weeks—of valuable time. Ideate BIMLink helps BIM and VDC managers, project leaders, facility managers, and users analyze, extract, and edit important BIM data. With Ideate BIMLink, you can pull and push volumes of information from a Revit file— Architecture, Structure, & MEP— into user-friendly Microsoft® Excel® with speed, ease, and accuracy. A few of the tasks supported by Ideate BIMLink include:

• Edit Schedule data (and non-schedule data)
• Create Unplaced Rooms, Unplaced Spaces, Unplaced Areas, Unplaced Sheets, Schedule Keys, Revision Sequences, Generic Models and Masses from an existing Excel file
• Rename all custom families and types to align with Project Standards
• Manage Sheets, Views, and Revisions to streamline production and reduce errors during project delivery.
• Perform advanced quality control tasks.
• Prepare and manage the Revit model for export to COBie data drops 

The average Ideate BIMLink user is saving 20 hours per project on a broad range of data management tasks. Ideate BIMLink is the indispensable tool that gives you unprecedented access to Revit data – the “I” in BIM. This Trial download limits the amount of data that can be exported to twenty-five (25) rows. After 14 days the software can be used in Demo mode only, which prohibits the import and export functions.

Rockit v2020.0.1

From the Autodesk App Store:

Rockit™ Autodesk® Revit® productivity tools to assist model and BIM managers, and anybody using Revit with a massive collection of the most useful and productive add-in utilities on the market. Using Rockit Bulk Rename you are able to rename multiple views or sheets or anything! with one click using the powerful find & replace, suffix, prefix options. With parameters manager, you are able to quickly find the shared parameter you are after and bind it to the project or family, quickly rename or delete shared and project parameters.

With the project search tool, you can find anything within the project browser so simply like you are using Skype and searching for a contact, this functionality has been included into the object style and materials search, category search and publish tools. Family management commands. Publish to PDF (include sheet revisions), manage links, sheet creator, and so much more.

Rockit Project Search