ELLAH-M: A Structural-Production Toolkit

Executive Overview

ELLAH-M is a Revit productivity add-in developed specifically for structural engineers and BIM teams. Its currently published core automates structural-column numbering, foundation and pile numbering, and two-way Excel exchange. Broader tools presented on the developer’s website extend the concept toward project setup, view and sheet creation, opening and recess modeling, and future automated pile layout.

The add-in’s central design idea is continuity across the structural workflow: marks assigned to columns can drive the identification of supporting pile caps and individual piles; selected model data can move to Excel for coordination and return to the correct Revit elements; and office standards can be reused to establish views and sheets in new projects. This makes ELLAH-M less of a general-purpose utility collection and more of a structural-production toolkit centered on numbering, information consistency, and drawing setup.

Product-status distinction: Autodesk Marketplace currently presents column numbering, foundation and pile numbering, and Excel export/import as the principal released capabilities. The developer’s version 1.3.1 website also advertises Project Setup and FastVoid as available in the trial, while some page sections still label FastVoid and automated pile layout as in development. Teams should therefore confirm the exact feature set in the installed Marketplace build before relying on website previews.

Structural Column Numbering

ELLAH-M scans structural columns, sorts them according to the chosen project logic, and writes sequential identifiers directly to Revit’s native Mark parameter. The tool is intended to replace manual renumbering across multiple levels while preserving a predictable relationship between vertically aligned structural members.

Published Capabilities

• Multi-level numbering: Columns can be numbered across the full project rather than one level at a time.
• Existing-mark continuity: The Marketplace states that the tool can continue from existing manual numbering without overwriting intentional marks.
• Preview before commit: Proposed changes can be reviewed before values are written to the model.
• Native undo: Changes support Revit’s standard Ctrl+Z undo workflow.
• Structural-category targeting: The tool is described as operating on structural columns, limiting accidental edits to unrelated architectural columns or other categories.
• Flexible scope: Developer material describes full-project, single-floor, selected-range, and manual numbering modes.
• Snake Path: A newer interactive method lets the user move the cursor over columns in the desired sequence without clicking every element. Published controls indicate Space can skip a number and Ctrl can finish the path.
• Output choice: Developer demonstration material states that Snake Path can write the sequence to Mark or Comments while maintaining vertical numbering continuity across floors.

Free SVS Smart Vision Suite: A Productivity and Model-Quality Toolkit

Summary

SVS Smart Vision Suite is a free productivity and model-quality toolkit for Autodesk Revit developed by SVS Team. According to its Autodesk Marketplace listing, it is intended to bring common project setup, sheet creation, parameter exchange, model-health review, and grid-dimensioning workflows together under one consistent SVS ribbon for Revit 2022 through Revit 2027.

Primary Purpose

The add-in is designed to streamline repetitive Revit production and coordination tasks that are commonly performed by BIM coordinators, model managers, and project teams. Instead of focusing on a single task, Smart Vision Suite combines several utilities into one toolkit: project setup automation, batch sheet creation, sheet renumbering, parameter export/import, model health reporting, and automated grid dimensioning.

One-Click Project Setup

One of the suite’s central tools is One-Click Project Setup. It can apply Architecture, MEP, Coordination, or saved setup profiles for project information, worksets, levels, views, and sheets. The tool is described as opening with a safe Empty profile, with no default rows and every creation option disabled, which helps prevent unintended project changes. Users can preview changes before applying them, making the workflow more controlled and suitable for real project startup conditions.

SVS Exporter: A Revit Productivity Suite and Export Utility

Summary

A Revit productivity suite for batch exports, schedule Excel workflows, site/model data management, and common BIM documentation tasks.

Overview

SVS Exporter is a productivity add-in for Autodesk Revit developed by SVS Team. It is designed to automate repeated documentation and model-management workflows, especially the kinds of export, schedule, parameter, and coordination tasks that can consume significant project production time. The Autodesk Marketplace listing describes it as a toolset for exporting sheets, schedules, site data, model formats, and managing common BIM tasks.

Unlike a single-purpose exporter, SVS Exporter combines several practical utilities in one ribbon-based Revit interface. Its published feature set includes PDF and DWG sheet/view export, schedule export and import through Excel, schedule template creation and syncing, parameter copying, site-coordinate tools, model export options, style transfer, level reassignment, family orientation, grid/link/CAD reference controls, license activation, update notices, and an in-app user guide.

Primary Purpose

The primary purpose of SVS Exporter is to reduce repetitive manual production work in Revit. BIM teams often spend time exporting sheets, creating DWG deliverables, pushing schedules into Excel, reimporting updated data, cleaning CAD references, adjusting element levels, and preparing model exports. SVS Exporter gathers these recurring tasks into a set of focused commands so teams can work faster and more consistently.

For architects, engineers, BIM coordinators, and documentation teams, the add-in functions as a practical production assistant rather than a design-authoring platform. It helps standardize export workflows, streamline schedule data exchange, and simplify common Revit model-management operations.

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.

Visibility Manager: Manage View Filters and V/G Overrides Across Views, View Templates, and Projects

Summary

Visibility Manager is a professional Autodesk Revit add-in developed by IB-BIM / Itzik Bejarano for managing view filters and Visibility/Graphics overrides across Revit views, view templates, and projects. It is designed to reduce the manual effort required to copy, remove, export, and import view-filter settings and category-based V/G overrides, especially in large models with many views, templates, disciplines, and documentation standards.

Purpose and Design Intent

The add-in addresses a common Revit production challenge: keeping visibility settings consistent across many views and templates. Native Revit tools can manage filters and V/G overrides, but applying the same settings repeatedly across many targets can be slow and error-prone. Visibility Manager provides a structured interface for bulk operations, allowing BIM teams to standardize project appearance, streamline coordination views, and manage template-driven graphics more efficiently.

Core Workflow

Visibility Manager works from the currently active Revit view. Users launch the tool from the IB-BIM ribbon tab or the Add-Ins tab, choose whether to work in Filters Mode or V/G Overrides Mode, select source settings from the current view, and then choose target views or target templates. The tool is organized around three main areas: the current source view, target views, and target templates. This layout makes it clear where settings are coming from and where they will be applied.

Dual Operation Modes

Filters Mode

Filters Mode allows users to copy or remove Revit view filters in bulk. The add-in preserves filter settings, rules, criteria, conditions, parameters, graphic overrides, and complex logic so that filters can be replicated accurately from a source view to multiple views or templates. This is useful for coordination filters, discipline filters, phasing filters, system-color filters, issue-review filters, and other office-standard graphics.

Type Manager Pro: Batch Rename Revit Types

Summary

Type Manager Pro is a commercial Autodesk Revit add-in developed by IB-BIM Tools / Itzik Bejarano for batch renaming Revit types. Unlike family-data management tools that focus on Type Catalogs or Lookup Tables, this add-in is centered on the practical day-to-day task of renaming existing Revit element types inside a project with controlled preview, validation, Excel export/import, and undo support.

Purpose and Design Intent

The add-in is designed to help BIM managers, coordinators, and Revit power users rename many Revit types quickly while avoiding common naming mistakes. Revit type names are often managed manually across walls, doors, windows, furniture, equipment, annotation objects, and other model or documentation categories. Type Manager Pro provides a dedicated interface where users can select a category, filter available types, preview proposed changes, validate results, and execute all approved renames in a single Revit transaction.

Core Workflow

Users open a Revit project, go to the IB-BIM Tools ribbon tab, launch Type Manager Pro, and choose a category from the dropdown list. The tool displays all types in that category with selection checkboxes and a live preview column. Users can select individual types or all visible types, apply a renaming operation, review the preview results, and then execute the valid changes. The execute button changes color to communicate status: gray when no items are selected, green when valid renames are ready, and red when all selected items contain errors.

Rename Operations

• Prefix: Adds text before the current type name.
• Suffix: Adds text after the current type name.
• Find/Replace: Replaces matching text inside type names.
• Wildcard support: Supports wildcard patterns such as asterisks and question marks in find-and-replace operations.
• Search filtering: Allows users to filter the displayed type list before selecting and renaming items.
• Live preview: Shows proposed new names before changes are applied, with valid changes and errors visually distinguished.

Free ScheduleLink: Round-Trip Element Information Between Schedules & Excel

Summary

ScheduleLink is a free Autodesk Revit add-in from IB-BIM that creates a round-trip connection between Revit schedules and Microsoft Excel. It allows users to export Revit schedules to professionally formatted Excel workbooks, edit schedule values in Excel, and import the changes back into Revit so that the underlying Revit elements are updated directly.

Purpose and Design Intent

The add-in is designed for Revit users who prefer to review, edit, and coordinate schedule data in Excel while still keeping the Revit model as the source of truth. Instead of manually changing many parameter values inside Revit schedules, users can use Excel’s familiar editing environment for bulk changes, then use ScheduleLink to validate and synchronize those edits back to model elements.

Core Workflow

ScheduleLink works through a simple export-edit-import process. Users launch the tool from an open Revit project, choose any schedule from the project list, preview the schedule parameters with color-coded editability indicators, export the schedule to Excel, make edits in the workbook, and then import the modified file back into Revit. During import, the add-in checks the workbook, applies only changed values, and provides a detailed results summary.

Key Features

• Exports Revit schedules to Excel with a WYSIWYG approach so the workbook reflects the schedule’s sorting, grouping, filters, and column order.
• Allows users to pick from all schedules in the current project without opening the schedule view first.
• Includes fast dynamic search for locating schedules by name.
• Displays a parameter preview with color-coded columns that indicate editable, type, calculated, and read-only fields.
• Imports modified Excel data back into Revit and updates only values that changed.
• Uses smart pre-checks to detect whether the Excel file contains changes before beginning import.
• Provides project validation to help prevent importing data into the wrong Revit project.
• Includes detailed import progress, error reporting, and copy-to-clipboard results.
• Supports full undo behavior by applying imports in a single Revit transaction.
• Includes right-to-left language support for Hebrew, Arabic, and other RTL languages.

Instance Locator: Map AutoCAD Blocks to Revit Families

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

With this application, you can increase your modeling speed when creating BIM based on DWG information. Just import DWG links and Instance Locator will allow you to map every type of block with  Autodesk® Revit® family type. You can place elements on walls, ceilings and floors.

You can refer to elements on the file or on Revit links. Choose to orient them up, down or laterally to the wall. Also you can place the instances at a fixed height with or without reference element.

Matterport Plug-in

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Matterport for Architecture, Engineering & Construction

Streamline documentation, 3D scan as-builts, and collaborate with ease using Matterport's 3D Technology. Our 3D data platform is the most powerful, accurate, and quickest way to document a building or property. With a compatible camera, you can capture anything from small to large spaces — both inside and outside — with the highest level of detail. With Matterport, you can also reduce costs and help save the most precious commodity — your time.

Use Matterport Plug-in for Autodesk® Revit® to reduce design and construction costs

Now with the Matterport plug-in, you can seamlessly: 

• Import your Matterport Point Cloud (E57 or .XYZ) files and seamlessly convert, share and render them within Revit.
• Download Matterport Scan-To-BIM assets directly from our Platform and import them into a new or existing project.

Incorporating Matterport into your BIM (Building Information Modelling) process can help reduce virtual design and construction costs and help you win more bids.

Using Matterport technology you can: Generate OBJ files and point clouds for as-builts and construction documentation; Scan tight areas 10–15 times faster than with a typical lidar scanner; Take measurements in difficult-to-access areas such as pipes, trusses, and ceiling beams; Overlay your point cloud onto your BIM model to conduct verification.

Matterport Plug-in installed in the Add-Ins tab

M3dida Portals — "Never Trace AutoCAD into Revit Again!"

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Never Trace AutoCAD into Revit again!

Want to save time tracing your Autodesk® AutoCAD® plans and details in Revit?

Of course, you do!

This tool works in tandem with M3dida's Portal Exporter tool for AutoCAD.

Use that tool to send your plan or detail selection to the M3dida Portal.

Once you have entries in the M3dida Portal, use this tool to select an entry from the M3dida Portal that you would like to bring into your Revit project. 

To bring in a plan, navigate to a plan view in Revit, and then begin the process. To bring in a detail view, navigate to a drafting view, login if you haven't already, and begin the process.

Your M3dida Portal will hold up to 10 entries. Once that number is reached, your bottom and last entry in the list will be deleted from the list.  

This tool will create placeholders in your Revit project for walls and doors.

This takes care of a lot of the leg work so you can have more time to take care of the more important things.

Nav to Rev

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

When working out of an Autodesk® Navisworks® model while using Autodesk® Revit® as your design software, Nav to Rev allows a user to instantly transfer geometry and points from Navisworks to Revit in real-time.

Many times, it becomes necessary to reference geometry in a Navisworks model from a file that was not provided to you. With the Mesh->Revit functionality you can instantly transfer the selected geometry from Navisworks to the last active Revit View. You also have the option to export all selected objects as one piece of generic geometry in Revit, or you can export each selected object separately.

Have you ever been working with a Navisworks model and had to reference a location in Revit? The Points->Revit tool allows you to instantly reference points used in the measurement tool into the last active Revit view. Simply snap some points using the "Point to Point" measurement tool in Navisworks, then select the "Points->Revit" button in the ribbon.

Pre-requisite: Both Revit and Navisworks need to be installed on your machine to transfer the points or geometry from Navisworks to Revit. 

Create (Pipes, Ducts, Conduits and Trays) from CAD

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

This tool is designed to convert the lines into (Pipes, Ducts, Conduits and Cable Trays) from CAD exploded  (2d or 3d)  lines or from Autodesk® Revit® lines.

The tool will save a lot of time converting CAD lines or Revit lines to Revit elements (Pipes, Ducts, Conduits and Cable Trays).

The tool will do this task automatically.

Typical Detail Converter

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

• Modeless Application for Converting Autodesk® AutoCAD® lines/Text to Autodesk® Revit® By Layer. 
• Extract lines/text from CAD Links / Imports by layer name without exploding.
• This application parses text from the CAD links/imports even in nested blocks.

XYZ to Roof

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

XYZ to Roof takes point data from CSV files and creates new roof elements in minutes - with surfaces that accurately match existing point cloud images.

The plugin takes your data captured from the site and creates a roof element via an import of a CSV file. You can use Pointcloud data, GNSS or Total station points to create an accurate roof. It supports original scan data taken in both metrics (m) and imperial units (ft).

This app has been designed to help Surveyors, Engineers, Architects, 3D Autodesk® Revit® Modellers, and 3D Laser scanning technicians. It imports as-built conditions from site to office, automating the tedious manual input of surface points within a roof element.

To Use this app, insert your pointcloud (rcs or rcp) to Revit as "Auto Origin to Origin" via the existing Revit Insert Tab if required.

Prepare your roof point data into a CSV file in the numerical format of (E-value), (N-value), (Z-value). Find XYZ to Roof on the add-ins tab and click the button to load CSV into XYZ to Roof - it will create a new structural roof that accurately matches your point cloud image. Roof boundaries will need some manual adjustment. The app will prompt you for which Revit layer to add the roof to, so by creating a layer close to the desired level less adjustment will be required.

XYZ to Floor

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

XYZ to Floor takes point data from CSV files and creates new structural floor elements in minutes - with surfaces that accurately match existing point cloud images.

The plugin takes your data captured from the site and creates a floor element via an import of a CSV file. You can use Pointcloud data, GNSS or Total station points to create an accurate floor. It supports original scan data taken in both metric (m) and imperial units (ft).

This app is designed to help Surveyors, Engineers, Architects, 3D Autodesk® Revit® Modellers and 3D Laser scanning technicians to import as-built conditions from site to office, automating the tedious manual input of surface points within a structural floor element.

To use this app, insert your pointcloud (rcs or rcp) to Revit as "Auto Origin to Origin" via the existing Revit Insert tab if required.

Prepare your floor point data into a CSV file in the numerical format of (E-value), (N-value), (Z-value). Find XYZ to Floor on the add-ins tab and click the button to load CSV into XYZ to Floor - it will create a new structural floor that accurately matches your point cloud image. Slab boundaries will need some manual adjustment but they are set automatically to the height of your floor shape points.

Distribute Lighting & Data Devices From CAD

From the Autodesk App Store:

Features

• Distribution of lighting and communication/data devices from an imported Autodesk® AutoCAD® drawing
• Useful in lighting distribution from DiaLux CAD output
• Convert CAD drawings to Autodesk® Revit®
• supports indoor and outdoor distributions
• Wall-mounted fixtures are not supported

General Instructions

Option 1 (by CAD layers)

One Revit family type will be used for all CAD blocks on the same layer (recommended for distribution from DiaLux)

Option 2 (by CAD block names)

One Revit family type will be used for each CAD block with a unique name

Free Import/Export Excel v20.0.1

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 20.0.1, 12/17/2019

• Corrections made
• Export
• Improved export speed when using multiple ”room” settings
• View shared parameter values
• Display parameter values for  “space” and “project”.
• Sorts on multiple parameters when exporting
• Import
• Importing "integer" and "boolean" values
• Importing shared parameter values
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• Improvements made
• Export of schedule of sheets
• Improved visual display of tables in Excel.
• Adding the grand total at the end of the table

Description

The Import/Export Excel allows you to synchronize data back and forth between Autodesk® Revit® and Excel. It also means you can alleviate the data management process by delegating tasks related to the model to team members that don’t use the model. You can export schedules as well as Revit standards to manage them in Excel. Once modified, you import the data back to Revit and your schedules or standards are going to be updated.

CCtools

From the Autodesk App Store:

CCtools was developed by cadconsulting, s.r.o. to facilitate design and administration of BIM model. CCtools are not adding any additional code to the BIM model and use standard Autodesk® Revit® tools. Any model, that was designed and created with the use of CCtools stays 100% compatible.

Free SheetLink v1.1.0.2

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 1.1.0.2, 11/19/2019

• Support for Multi-category schedules 
• Support for linked model data 
• Preview before import or export 
• Saving issue fixed 
• Support for managing Worksets 
• Performance improved 
• Minor bugs fixed

Description
SheetLink is a free plugin for Autodesk® Revit® developed by DiRoots that allows you to synchronize the model data back and forth between Revit and spreadsheets.

SheetLink has been considered by many Revit users as one of the best, free import/export data plugin for Revit in the market right now.

• Bulk edit instance and type parameters
• Preview/edit your model data before export/import
• Easily export and import back schedules (including View List, Sheet List, and Multi-Category.

Define Clash Tests for Navisworks – Import Clash Tests from Excel

From the Autodesk App Store:

Instead of defining Autodesk® Navisworks® clash tests manually, one by one, this app automatically defines Navisworks clash tests from a Clash Matrix CSV file.

A clash Matrix Excel file should be a part of your company's standards, and should be utilized for your projects.

If two test names in the Excel file match the defined Navisworks search set names, it creates a clash test for you. You can define the clash tolerance by editing the value between a column and a row in the Excel template file provided with the app.

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