The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Feb 25 - Mar 3, 2019

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about Raven - A BIM Communication Tool, which is intended to replace the now defunct Revit Communicator.

From around the Internet, we posted about devBLD Topo and Utility Tools and NBS Chorus, the cloud-based self-proclaimed "intelligent construction specification."

We posted about available add-ins from NET Spider Studio. They may not be new to some but the were new to us.

• Revit Project Organizer – Includes 248 tools
• Revit Family Organizer – Includes 162 tools
• Revit Parameter Organizer – Includes 153 tools
• Revit SPF Organizer – Includes 3 tools for managing Shared Parameter files, including the free Revit SPF Viewer 

We also posted a product roundup featuring the above.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Feb 18-24, 2019

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about the free Backup File Organizer, the free MEP Length, and the free Renumber Parts, for numbering MEP elements for spooling, and colorizing based on Spool Name.

From around the Internet, we posted about Naviate Landuse, for creating zoning plans, and the free On the Roof, for designing a roof in three steps.

Updated

From the App Store, we posted about the free CSI link v0.3, and CSI Link Plus v0.3.

For App Store updates not mentioned here, see our latest roundup »

From around the Internet, we posted about a couple of new-ish tools that are part of other products, the Cobie Family Setup Tool in the free Autodesk COBie Extension for Revit 2019, and the Naviate Pattern Editor in several Naviate products.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Feb 11-17, 2019

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about Attach It, for attaching 'any' file (RVT, DOC, PDF, XLS, TXT, etc) and automatically converting PDF and Excel files to images, the free In-Place Family Warning, and Sheet Package, a budget-priced bundle of the ten sheet-related apps previously available from BIM SOFT SOLUTIONS.

Updated

From around the Internet, we posted about the BIM Track February 2019 Release, which, among other things, includes advanced View in Model behaviors.

We also posted a couple of times about the free and open source pyRevit, pyRevit Versions 4.6.13, 4.6.14, and 4.6.15 and pyRevit v4.7.0 Beta, which now supports CPython.

For App Store updates not mentioned here, see our latest roundup »

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Feb 4-10, 2019

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about the free Parameter String Search, Section Box for Autodesk® Revit®, and the free Zoom To Selection.

From around the Internet, we posted about the free Naviate Rebar Extension, QARC4REVIT, ‘Australia’s First Comprehensive Revit Content Delivery System,’ and the free Raccorderie Metalliche Product Line Placer.

Updated

From the App Store, we posted about Advanced Revision Cloud v2.5.

For additional App Store updates not mentioned here, see our latest roundup »

From around the Internet, we posted about Guardian v1.4.0.

We also made what will be perhaps the last needed update to our Revit 2019 Product Enhancements from Autodesk article, this one for the much-awaited update of Autodesk Enhanced DWG Exporter for Revit.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Jan 28 - Feb 3, 2019

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about the free Element ID, for saving element IDs to parameters.

Updated

From the App Store, we posted about BIMcollab® BCF Manager for Autodesk® Revit® v5 r3.

Free Webinars

Jan 30 – How to Become a BIM Manager Superstar with Ideate Software

Application Development

Twitter was abuzz this week with news of the release of the public Beta of Design Automation for Revit for Autodesk Forge. In addition to sharing the initial news from the Revit blog, we also re-posted Introducing Design Automation Tutorial: AutoCAD, Inventor & Revit Engines.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Jan 21-27, 2019

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about AmbiensVR, the free Find / Replace Parameter Text, and the free Match Offset, for setting height/Offset of elements to match others in any view.

Updated

From the App Store, we posted about the free Microdesk Accelerator v2.0, which includes several new tools for MEP.

From around the Internet, we posted about Autodesk Structural Precast Extension for Revit 2019 Update 1, which delivers more automation, BIMcollab BCF Managers v5 r3, the free BIMcollab ZOOM 2.1, and RevitLookup v2019.0.0.6, which now snoops edges, faces and links.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Jan 14-20, 2019

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about Palette, which enables custom palettes for families and view templates.

From around the Internet, we posted about CL3VER Cloud, for photorealistic rendering in a Web browser, the free OneFilter, for quickly finding and filtering Revit families, and the free POLOPLAST Product Line Placer, for designing sanitary systems with accurate and localized POLOPLAST specific content.

Updated

From the App Store, we posted about Docuflow v2.7.

For additional App Store updates not mentioned here, see our latest roundup.

From around the Internet, we posted about AVAIL Desktop v3.10.1, Browser for Revit v4.1 & Stream v1.4.1, pyRevit v4.6.10, 4.6.11 & Upcoming pyRevitLabs Merge, pyRevit v4.6.12 & CLI 0.6.0, and UNIFI CORE v3.2, which enables support for materials and fill patterns.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Jan 7-13, 2019

We mentioned in our recent year-in-review article our disappointment with our drop-off from the previous year, and our commitment to getting our post count back to 2017 levels, and, by extension, increasing our coverage of Dynamo and webinars. Two weeks into 2019 and, as you'll see below, we're happy to report that we're on track in the (very) early going to accomplish these goals.

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about Ingrid Cloud, for smart wind simulations, and the free and self-explanatory add-ins ON / OFF CAD Imported Drawings and Schedule To Excel.

From around the Internet, we posted about Kinship, the content management offering that we'd literally been waiting for years to come out of private Beta, and PropertyWizard Beta, for adding formulas to project parameters.

Updated

From the App Store, we posted about Dynamic Quantities v2.0.0.

For additional App Store updates not mentioned here, see our latest roundup.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Dec 31, 2018 - Jan 6, 2019

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about the free ToRD-AutoText.

From around the Internet, we posted about the free and open source OpenRFA Tookit, which includes tools for using OpenRFA standardized shared parameters, and the free Niessen Switch Range Configurator.

Updated

From around the Internet, we posted about UNIFI 2.8.0, 2.8.1& 2.8.2 Release Notes.

We also posted a few times about the free and open source pyRevit with pyRevit v4.6.9 Beta, now with New Keynote Manager, pyRevit versions 4.5, 4.6.5, 4.6.7, & 4.6.8, and pyRevitMEP, a pyRevit extension with tools for MEP tasks.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for December 24-30, 2018

Predictably, the week between the Christmas and New Year holidays was a quiet one for Revit add-in related news. In fact, There were no new add-ins published and no new updates on the Autodesk App Store for the week, so we took the opportunity to look around the Internet and to scratch a few items off our to-do list.

New

We posted about Attach It for Revit for attaching "any file" to a Revit model (PDF, DOC, XLS, etc.).

Miscellaneous

We shared a Lumion 9 Review from What Revit Wants.

We updated our roundup of 5-star rated add-ins on the App Store: Critical Mass – 5-Star Rated Add-ins* on the Autodesk App Store for End-of-Year 2018, Now Expanded!

For add-in publishers, conference organizers, Autodesk channel partners, and consultants, we posted about out new Advertising page. Head on over and check it out kids!

Lastly, we posted a couple items about the world of computational design with Goodbye Project Fractal, Hello Project Refinery and Tutorial – Piling with Revit 2019, Dynamo and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2019.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for December 17-23, 2018

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about the free CAD Link Opener for opening CAD links in AutoCAD or other applications, the free Chameleon for easy view filter creation, the free LODmanager for assigning and managing LOD parameters and for viewing varying levels of LOD, and rvt2VR for publishing Revit models to virtual reality in 1-click. We also belatedly posted about Control Area Reinforcement for comparing actual area reinforcement versus required reinforcement imported from Robot Structural Analysis.

Updates

From the App Store, we posted about BIM Repeat Remapper v1.1, which is now free. We also belatedly posted about Bird Tools' Tag Alignment Tool v1.4 and Docuflow v2.6.

For additional App Store updates not mentioned here, see our latest roundup.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for December 10-16, 2018

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about Macaw Plus, for searching, grouping and editing keynotes.

Navisworks

New

From the App Store, we posted about the self-explanatory Navis To AcadCAD, and TAGGER, for tagging elements in real time.

Updated

Also from the App Store, we posted about Publish to Mobile View for Autodesk® Navisworks® v3.0.0.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Dec 3-9, 2018

The week of December 3, 2018 was a quiet one on Revit Add-ons. On The Autodesk App Store, no new add-ins were published and none were updated. Our best guess: the site administrator was probably on vacation. Expect a flood next week.

We took the opportunity to do some behind the scenes work, such as branding, marketing and sales.

We also took the opportunity to catch up with one of our advertisers, StrucSoft Solutions, by posting about their MWF Post Frame for Revit, as well as their free Dynamo scripts.


Top 10

Top of the Pops

Last week, the following posts spent time in the #1 spot of our 'Trending Top 10 for the Last 7 Days' list. In order, they were:

• The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Nov 19 - Dec 2, 2018
• Free GAMUT | MANAGER – The Easiest Way to Manage Your Firm’s BIM Content Library
• Revit 2019 Product Enhancements from Autodesk (Update #19)

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for Nov 19 - Dec 2, 2018

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about the self-explanatory Auto Numbering, the free Column Panel, for placing panel slabs on structural columns at specified levels and more, OpenLM, for "licenses on premise," SOFiSTiK Analysis + Design, for structural engineering, and the self-explanatory WarningManageEz.

From around the Internet, we posted about the free FenestraPro Linc, for accessing live manufacturer data and information. We also posted about the GAMUT tools for family library browsing and management:

• Free GAMUT|USER – A Better way to Search and Load BIM Content – an Editor's Choice Award winner!
• Free GAMUT|MANAGER – The Easiest Way to Manage Your Firm’s BIM Content Library – an Editor's Choice Award winner!
• GAMUT | USER(PRO) – Search and Load BIM Content Ad Free
• GAMUT|PARAMETERS – Manage Family Parameters in Libraries in Batch
• GAMUT|MINION – Make Changes to Families in Libraries in Batch Using a Spreadsheet

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for November 19-25, 2018

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about LINKo7, for bringing AutoCAD DWG files into Revit and Revit files into AutoCAD.

Updated

From the App Store, we belatedly posted about Greenlee BendWorks® v3.1.616.

From around the Internet, we posted about the free FamilyReviser, for managing Revit families, and IMAGINiT Utilities for Revit 2019, which includes 3 new tools.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for November 12-18, 2018

Revit

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about the self-explanatory add-ins Auto Dimension Structure Column and Grid and Column Auto Spot Coordinate, both from G.T.G.

From around the Internet, we posted about Iconic BIM's latest, Guardian, for automating consistency of parameters when importing families, aligning parameters in library families with Revit templates, and preventing or warning users when certain actions are attempted, such as Explode CAD or Purge Unused. Guardian's an Editor's Choice Award winner!

Updated

From the App Store, we posted about 3DPDF Exporter for Autodesk® Revit® v4.2.0.0.

Miscellaneous

We posted the latest in our monthly "What's Hot" series, What’s Hot in Revit Add-ons for November 2018.

The Week That Was in Revit Add-ons for November 5-11, 2018

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about Macaw for searching, grouping and editing keynotes, the free My Notebook for cloud-based model notes, PassivLink Lite for exporting to Passive House Planning Package (PHPP), and the free SheetLink – for synchronizing model data with spreadsheets.

Updates

From around the Internet, we posted about the free Autodesk BIM Interoperability Tools for Revit v7, which have new features and a new look, and about the individual tools:

• Free Autodesk Classification Manager for Revit v7
• Free Autodesk Model Checker for Revit v7
• Free Autodesk Model Checker Configurator v7
• Free Autodesk COBie Extension for Revit v7

We also posted about Lumion 9.

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.

The Week that was in Revit Add-ons for October 22-28, 2018

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about 123 Search for searching, exploring and interacting with model elements and data objects, Drawing Manager for exporting sheets to DWG, Dynamic Quantities for measuring quantities of materials in real time, and Match Rotation for matching loadable families' rotations.

From around the Internet, we posted about the free CorbisSniffer for automated data extraction.

Updated

From the App Store, we posted about LTM® - Landscape Terrain Modeller v3.0.

For additional App Store updates not mentioned here, see our latest roundup.

The Week that was in Revit Add-ons for October 15-21, 2018

New

From the Autodesk App Store, we posted about Conduit Audit for automatic parameter management.

Updated

From the Autodesk App Store, we belatedly posted about FilterMore v2.0.

For additional App Store updates not mentioned here, see our latest roundup.

From around the Internet, we posted about the free IFC Model Exchange with ARCHICAD for Revit 2019, and V-Ray for Revit versions 3.6 & 3.7.

Miscellaneous

We published the latest in our "What's Hot" series, What’s Hot in Revit Add-ons for October 2018.