Autotag: Automated MEP Tagging

Summary

Autotag by Bimrock AI is a Revit-native add-in designed to automate MEP tagging and annotation workflows in Autodesk Revit. Its primary purpose is to replace repetitive, manual tag placement with reusable, rule-based tagging profiles that can be applied across views, sheets, levels, disciplines, and documentation sets. The add-in focuses on ducts, pipes, cable trays, conduits, electrical equipment, and other MEP-related elements, while also noting support for some general architectural elements.

Purpose and Core Value

The add-in addresses one of the most time-consuming production tasks in Revit MEP documentation: placing, moving, aligning, and cleaning up tags by hand. In dense mechanical, electrical, and plumbing views, teams may need to tag hundreds or thousands of elements, then adjust leaders and elbows to avoid overlapping annotation. Autotag is intended to reduce that manual effort, improve consistency, and help teams produce cleaner documentation with fewer redlines.

Workflow 

Autotag uses a profile-based workflow. Users create a tagging profile by selecting the Revit categories to tag, choosing the appropriate tag families, defining filtering criteria, and setting placement and orientation rules. These profiles function like annotation-focused standards that can be reused across views, sheets, or projects. Once a profile is applied, Autotag places tags automatically, attempts to avoid overlaps, and gives users post-placement tools for bulk editing, leader organization, and elbow alignment.

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

Tagitize: Tag All Across Multiple Views Without Overlaps, Plus Much More

Summary

Tagitize is an Autodesk Revit add-in designed to automate tagging and simplify dimensioning workflows in Revit documentation. Its main purpose is to reduce the manual effort required to place, adjust, audit, and maintain tags across views and sheets, while improving drawing clarity, consistency, and documentation quality.

Primary Purpose

The add-in acts as a more capable alternative to Revit’s native Tag All command. While Tag All is limited to the active view and often requires substantial cleanup, Tagitize extends tagging automation to multiple views and sheets, applies user-defined tagging styles, reduces overlapping tags, and supports conditional tagging based on project-specific rules.

Key Tagging Capabilities

• Batch tagging across views and sheets: Tagitize can apply tags to several Revit views or sheets at once, reducing the repetitive work of tagging each view individually.
• Overlap reduction: The add-in is designed to place tags in cleaner positions so that tags do not overlap each other or obscure the documentation.
• Custom tagging styles: Users can configure tagging preferences, including leader behavior, tag positioning, and style settings, then reuse those standards across projects.
• Conditional tagging: Tagitize can tag only elements that meet specific criteria, such as fire-rated doors, walls over a defined length, or elements that satisfy parameter-based conditions.
• Tag grouping and merging: The tool can group similar or identical tags, including support for multi-leader tags, helping reduce annotation clutter while retaining required information.

Audit and Quality Control Tools

Beyond tag creation, Tagitize includes tools for reviewing and correcting tag-related issues. It can help locate empty tags, review generated tag placements, identify inconsistent results, and allow users to retry alternate tag locations when the initial placement is not acceptable. These features make the add-in useful not only for production drafting, but also for BIM quality control and documentation review.

BLT SMRT Foundry – A Free Productivity Suite

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Foundry is a suite of tools designed to enhance and simplify your design and documentation process.

Designed by Autodesk® Revit® users, the tools were created with a focus on providing a low barrier of entry and easy-to-use user interfaces.

Foundry adds the following features to Revit:

• PrototypeStudio: Enables users who work on prototypical projects to quickly flesh out their designs with interior finishes. Assign finishes to a room profile (defined by name and number), and automatically model floor, ceiling, and wall finishes.

The PrototypeStudio main dialog. Select the rooms in which
you wish to create floors, walls and ceiling elements.

The PrototypeStudio Room Profile Viewer.
Assign materials to each room in your project.

Tag Legend

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

This application allows Autodesk® Revit® users to place a tag for Legend Component and keep the tag updated automatically.

By using this app, Revit users can also input door & window information to door & window type parameter automatically such as: number of instances, level, sill height, room name.

WhiteFeet Revit Utilities - A Veritable Cornucopia of Tools

The WhiteFeet Revit Utilities toolset is composed of a collection of small, generally independent, programs that have each been created to address a specific need.  Typically, a project would encounter a problem, or envision an opportunity, that suggested a customization.  A tool was developed to address this need, but in a way that was slightly more general, so that it could be used in other ways and on other projects.

Sheet Manager

Sheet Manager links to an Excel file or (less commonly) an Access database. Based on this data, it creates or updates sheets in Revit as a bulk editing process. The tool can also be used to export data, renumber sheets, and place views on sheets.

It is also useful for maintaining “dummy” sheet lists of consultant drawings, whose only purpose is to populate the sheet schedule.

reviTTools

With reviTTools you can expand the brilliant functionality possibilities of Revit Architecture, Revit Structure or Revit MEP software products. These new capabilities fitting to the integrated BIM philosophy will speed up your daily tedious tasks and will allow you to have less errors.

Tools included are:

• Schedule and tag real from room / to room properties of doors
• Schedule and tag real door swing property
• Count elements
• Manage imported and linked CAD files
• Update Sheet properties
• One-click customized DWG export
• One-click direct export to Excel
• One-click direct room/area import from Excel
•  Renumber doors, windows and rooms
• Transfer any room parameters to belongings door

reviTTools is free to use in demo mode, and fully functional. Site licensing is mentioned but no price given.

More information on reviTTools here.

Thanks to Clay Hickling of GHD and his presentation at the Revit Technology Conference USA 2011, "10 Free Revit Add-ins You can't Live Without"