Ridiculously Over-Sized Roundup – For Jul 22 - Oct 13, 2019, New and Updated Revit-Related Add-Ins on the Autodesk App Store

Revit

New

SetWorkplanePoint
Set Workplane in a variety of ways. Move the Workplane to the pick a point or offset it by the specified distance | USD 1.90/M
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 10.11.9365, 10/10/2019 – License release.

BIM_SOFT_Tool_Package_V_17,18,19,20
This application contains 12 useful tools to facilitate work in Autodesk® Revit® | USD 20.00/Y
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 10/1/2019 – First release.

Section on Element
Create Section view parallel or perpendicular to selected element | USD 2.00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0, 9/30/2019 – Initial release.

Critical Mass – 5-Star Rated Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store for Summer 2019

For your convenience, below is our bi-annual list of the 5-star rated Revit-related add-ins on the Autodesk App Store (with at least four reviews). The list is sorted by number of reviews, highest to lowest. Add-ins are also separated between free and paid.

The add-in that gained the most reviews since our last listing was Color Splasher with 8 (for 21 total).

Eighteen add-ins made their debut on the list this go-round. The add-in debuting with the most reviews was BIM BOQ Quantifier with 9 reviews.

Remember, reviews are important. Please take a few minutes to share your 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."
★★★★★ (102 reviews ⁺³ )

Palladio X BIM WindowsLayout
Arrange windows by a scheme.
★★★★★ (63 reviews ⁺² )

Giant-Size Roundup – For May 27 - June 30, 2019, New and Updated Revit-Related Add-Ins on the Autodesk App Store

Revit

New

Room Tools
Aligning tools for room and room tag | Free
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.1, 6/28/2019 – Fixed Area Issues.

FBX Exporter
Batch exports Autodesk® Revit® geometry to individual FBX files | Free
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 6/27/2019 – Initial release.

Warning Manager
This app is designed to help you manage all warning messages on Autodesk® Revit® models with Isolate and create a Bounding box around the error Elements | USD 8.00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.1.0, 6/27/2019 – For release notes, see this post »

Spider Pro for Robot Structural Analysis

From the Autodesk App Store:

With Spider Pro you will be able to:

• Create rigid links for multiple column-slab joints with diverse options
• Create rigid links for multiple beam-wall joints
• Create multiple drop panels and connect them to the slab using rigid links
• Create rigid links along the length of the bar to connect bars to panels or to connect panels with panels
• Convert selected columns to walls
• Convert all rigid links in the model to bars with the predefined section
• Easily modify the length of the selected bars
• Convert beams to shells with numerous settings
• Easily modify load contour for selected loads
• Easily modify the contour of the panel or opening
• Select panels according to the applied vertical load value. The selection is limited to planar load and uniform planar load on a contour.
• Switch off automatic panel selection in the contour plane for selected load case
• Easily create stairs according to the selected rectangular contour. The contour shall have 4 vertices.
• Easily check the area loads and create colorful load maps  
• Easily change the start or end node for selected bars
• Align coordinates for nodes based on the selected node
• Measure distance between 2 nodes

Super Massive Roundup – For Mar 4 - May 19, 2019, New and Updated Revit-Related Add-Ins on the Autodesk App Store

Hi folks, your friendly neighborhood editor Tim here. It's been a crazy spring for me. As I shared here previously, I first took on a project for an add-in developer that proved to be more challenging than expected. Later I joined that developer, StrucSoft Solutions, as a regular employee (as Customer Success Manager).

In addition to these (understandable) demands on my time, I got sick about 5 weeks ago, and am still trying to recover. Initially, we thought it was the flu, but now we think it to be bacterial in nature. Fortunately, with the right medications, I think I'm finally on the mend.

We've been working hard to get back to our baseline, which is to say, caught up with the Autodesk App Store. It's been especially challenging because, during the period I was convalescing, Revit 2020 was released. Add that to how busy our community normally is and you get one looooong list of new and updated add-ins... 😲

Revit

New

Place Views On sheets
This tool is designed to place views on sheets automatically | USD 1.50/M
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 5/19/2019 – Initial release.

Saved Viewpoints
Store multiple Viewpoints in a Single View and quickly navigate to each one! Great for Coordination Meetings | Trial
☆☆☆☆☆ (0 reviews)
About This Version: Version 1.1.0.0, 5/19/2019 – Initial release.

Free Results Connect for Robot Structural Analysis – Seamlessly Access Data and Results in Excel

From the Autodesk App Store:

Results Connect is an application that allows designers and engineers using Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis to seamlessly access data and results with Microsoft® Office Excel®.

Results Connect is fully integrated into Microsoft Office Excel as an Add-in and allows accessing data and results from an Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis model using simple Excel formulas.

Results Connect

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 Oct 29 - Nov 4, 2018

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about the self-explanatory Batch Reload_Links, the free Drawing List Manager for Autodesk® Revit®, the free LightStanza Plugin for exporting models to LightStanza with automatic illuminance grids based on rooms, and SOFiSTiK Bridge Modeler.

Updated

From around the Internet, we posted about Ideate Explorer v2019.1 and Enscape v2.4.

Navisworks

New

From the App Store, we posted about iFieldModelCompare for displaying differences between two model versions

From around the Internet, we posted about the free and open-source ENGyn – Dynamo-like visual scripting for Navisworks.

Robot Structural Analysis Add-Ins Now on the Autodesk App Store

Effective October 25, 2018, there's now a Robot Structural Analysis page on the Autodesk App Store. We'll be including add-ins published there from now on.

We've also added the following to our site to make it easy for you to find Robot Structural Analysis related add-ins:

1. A Robot Structural Analysis label to applicable posts
2. A link to the App Store page under "Other Revit Add-in Resource Sites"
3. A Robot Structural Analysis quick access badge

Free Composite Beam Design Extension for Robot Structural Analysis

From the Autodesk App Store:

Using Composite Beam Design Extension, you can quickly design and check the behavior of composite beams. You can also design an entire composite floor system on a floor by floor basis within a Robot model.

• This application lets you select from two methods of calculating internal forces: Internal Engine and Robot Structural Analysis (for advanced users).
• All design is based on ANSI/AISC 360-10.
• This application works for composite steel beam design, but you can also use it for non-composite design.
• The basic functionalities include interactive and automatic design of composite beams.
• Full bidirectional integration with the Robot model is achieved using this application.

Free Structural Analysis Toolkit – Interoperability with Robot Structural Analysis

Editor's Note: While we've posted previously about Structural Analysis Toolkit, our old posts are severely out of date so we're posting the current information here to coincide with our new coverage of Robot Structural Analysis add-ins on the Autodesk App Store.

From the Autodesk App Store:

The toolkit includes the following components:

Link with Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis Professional
Use it to perform advanced analyses after transferring a Revit analytical model to Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis Professional (Robot). It is a structural analysis and design software application. It enables you to perform linear and nonlinear analyses of any structure type and shape and to design steel, concrete, and timber elements of a structure.

Link Revit-Robot

Free Robot-AdvanceSteel Link (Updated)

From the Autodesk App Store:

With Robot-AdvanceSteel Link, you can export a Robot structural model using the smlx format. You can then import the smlx file in Autodesk® Advance Steel in order to detail steel connections and automatically generate fabrication documents. From Robot, you can export values of internal forces with the model to the smlx file. After importing the file to Advance Steel, you can use these values to perform code checking of connections.

Conversely, you can export a model from Advance Steel in order to perform structural analysis and code checking in Robot.

You can also track changes in the same model in both applications using the synchronization feature.

Example