Roundup – New and Updated Revit Add-ins on Autodesk Exchange Apps for the Week of 5/31/2015

NEW

SPECtrum
Rethink Content... - Manage entire content libraries in batch - Manage system families (Assemblies, Materials) - Deploy managed content from any workstation - Manage Parameters & Values in Batch | Trial

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Detail Filter
This filter is a simple command for filtering of the selected elements in more detail | Free

HVACgbXmlCalc
Cooling load calculation based on gbXml file according to RTS method by ASHRAE | Free

DigiPara® Elevatorarchitect 2016
Free plug-in to create elevator BIM models within Autodesk® Revit® 2016 software | Free

Topo Align 2016
Align topography to elements picked in the model | USD 1.99

Workshared File Notification
Allows user to easily recreate a local file if the local file is outdated. It also prevents user from accidentally opened a central model | Free

Enscape™ Trial
Enscape™ – Realtime 3D rendered walkthrough for your projects in Autodesk Revit. It enables you to show and communicate designs in your team or to your customers effortlessly | Trial


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Lots of Advertising Changes, Including a New Lower Cost Option for Advertisers

I've always tried to make advertising on Revit Add-ons and Civil 3D Add-ons inclusive to all sizes of organizations, and to all budgets. In the hopes of furthering this, I've added a new advertising option: Horizontal Sidebars in a 4x3 aspect ratio instead of the 3x4  aspect ratio I've used exclusively for sidebar ads previously.

Ad sizes and locations

There's an example of a Horizontal Sidebar on the site: The Building Coder ad in the left-hand margin.

The Top and Bottom Banner ads have also changed, but in a different way. Previously, I rotated Top Banner ads monthly. This was rather ungainly, and didn't offer the freshest user experience. I recently did a little programing (shocking I know), and the Top and Bottom banner ads now load a random ad from the rotation with each pageload.

Roundup – New and Updated Revit Add-ins on Autodesk Exchange Apps for the Week of 5/24/2015

NEW

DiffCheck
With just the push of a button, Diffcheck adjusts the height of all ceiling diffusers to the ceiling grid. DiffCheck also checks all ceiling diffusers for conflicts with other ceiling items | USD 25.00

Vabi Spatial Requirements Assistant
Vabi Spatial Requirements Assistant™ App continually monitors that all functional building requirements are met as different design options are investigated | Trial

Vabi Thermal Comfort Optimizer
Vabi Thermal Comfort Optimizer™ App optimizes people’s thermal comfort inside the building by setting the right room by room heating and cooling setpoints across your BIM model | Trial

Vabi Financial Simulator
Vabi Financial Simulator™ App enables Return on Investment (ROI) calculations, monitors the financial impact of design decisions and supervises achievement of owner and developer financial goals | Trial

Surfacer
Surfacer helps users to create surface layer for walls, columns, beams and floors easily | USD 5.00



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Print2CAD 2015 - PDF /JPEG /... to DWG Converter
PDF/JPEG/TIFF/HPGL/... to DWG or DXF Conversion To Full Editable Drawing With The Help of a Stand Alone Program. With Raster Vectorization and OCR Text Recognition | Trial

WorkFlow
Productivity suite for Autodesk® Revit® | Trial

SOFiSTiK 3D-PDF Export 2013 (64-Bit)
SOFiSTiK 3D-PDF Export generates PDF documents with embedded 3D content. Particularly focused on structural models and reinforcement it includes features to create an useful representation of them | USD 9.90

SOFiSTiK 3D-PDF Export 2013 (32-Bit)
SOFiSTiK 3D-PDF Export generates PDF documents with embedded 3D content. Particularly focused on structural models and reinforcement it includes features to create an useful representation of them | USD 9.90

M.L.T.E.
Multi Line Text Editor | USD 5.00

SPECtrum – Rethink Content™ with this Content Management Solution

From the Autodesk Exchange Apps website...

SPECtrum | 1.1

SPEC | reader
SPEC | manager
SPEC | editor
SPEC | parameters
SPEC | utilities

BIM content got you down? SPECtrum is your single solution for content management, search and firm-wide deployment. Not a file browser posing as a content management system, SPECtrum is a revolutionary way of deploying content altogether. No new software to learn, SPECtrum is intuitive, easy to understand, and grows with you. Architects, engineers and contractors; you’ve voiced your opinions about what you are looking for; and we listened.

This is how you Rethink Content™

Frustrated with constant updates? | Manage parameters and values in batch.

• Simple tools let you manage parameters, values, formulas, families, types and assemblies.

Annoyed with type catalogs? | Get rid of them forever.

• Search and load families, types, materials and assemblies from a remotely managed file.

Wondering where that family went? | Index once and never wonder again.

• Indexing analyzes family and type catalog data and puts it in a compact, easy to manage file.

DiffCheck – Automatic Adjustment of Ceiling Diffusers

From the Autodesk Exchange Apps website...

With just the push of a button, DiffCheck adjusts the height of all ceiling diffusers to the ceiling grid. DiffCheck also checks all ceiling diffusers for conflicts with other ceiling items.  This application is intended for mechanical designers who experience architect ceiling and lighting changes throughout the design process.

The DiffCheck add-in is brought to you by Mech Quick and is priced at USD 25.00.

There's more information available on the Autodesk Exchange Apps website.

SOFiSTiK Reinforcement Detailing 2016

From the Autodesk Exchange Apps website...

SOFiSTiK Reinforcement Detailing significantly accelerates the creation of 2D reinforcement sheets out of 3D models in Autodesk® Revit®. The product consists of software and a set of families, which can easily be modified to meet local or company standards. Creation of bar lists, bending schedules and cut lists for wire meshes is included as well.

Functionalities at a glance

• Customizable Content Packs (Tags, Details etc.).
• Rebar marks per project or per sheet.
• Set Marks according additional criteria's like running length, connectors etc.
• Customizable Annotation for all reinforcement elements.
• Group bars to a specific rebar container in order to tag them together.
• Creation of rebar sets with variable segment lengths.
• Split Rebars according to a stock length and a length of splice.
• Several Detailing tools to indicate the rebar layout,- bar ends,- layers, etc.
• Creation of Rebar Shape Details.
• Connect rebar couplers and anchor plates to rebar ends.
• Ignore Openings for rebars while removing an area system.
• Assign Reinforcement Layers in floors, walls and foundation slabs.
• Browse through the marks of rebars and fabric sheets.
• Creation of bent fabrics rows.
• Bending Schedules for rebars and cut lists for wire meshes.
• Export rebar data to CSV - (Excel) and ABS (bending machine).
• Several utility commands for creating, manipulating and visualizing.

SOFiSTiK Reinforcement Detailing is brought to you by SOFiSTiK AG and is priced at USD 549.00. A 30-day free trial is available.

There's more information available on the Autodesk Exchange Apps website.

Vabi Spatial Requirements Assistant

From the Autodesk Exchange Apps website...

To achieve its purpose every building project has many functional requirements demanded by the client, requested by the occupier or prescribed by building codes. Meeting and confirming compliance with these requirements is often a lengthy and separate checklist activity outside the design system.

The Spatial Requirements Assistant™ App:

• Scans the BIM model and reports compliance of the current design iteration against all the functional requirements
• Creates various Functional Performance Indicators in the Vabi BIM Performance Dashboard App
• Synchronizes with Autodesk® Revit® units of measurement to calculate floor areas
• Accepts various functional requirement inputs based on Revit room occupancy types and user defined rulesets for custom requirements 
• such as occupancy types, room and other space sizes, toilets, circulation areas, parking spaces, etc. and Building Code rulesets such as minimum access widths, circulation space requirements, and the number of toilets or parking spaces.

Vabi Spatial Requirements Assistant™ takes Revit to a new higher performance automation level to deliver more of the promise of BIM by providing automated compliance checking and decision support for your integrated BIM design approach. It is available to Revit users in a modern SaaS (Software as a Service) model under annual or monthly subscription.

Vabi Thermal Comfort Optimizer

From the Autodesk Exchange Apps website...

Vabi Thermal Comfort Optimizer™, working as a plugin within Autodesk® Revit®, helps you set and meet optimal design temperatures for each room in your BIM model. As a result optimal room temperatures are achieved taking into account occupant satisfaction, metabolism (met value), clothing insulation (clo value), relative humidity, air velocity, and room heating and cooling setpoints for optimal indoor temperatures in winter and summer.

The Comfort Optimizer™:

• Accepts as input the thermal comfort values per room based on room function, space and occupancy type in the Revit model
• Analyzes 3D spaces in the BIM model and uses Fanger model predictive mean vote (PMV) and percentage of people dissatisfied (PPD) calculations in conformance with ISO 7730 (2005) Annex D
• Synchronizes with Revit’s units of measurement
• Saves thermal analysis data within the BIM model
• Displays thermal comfort results
• Creates a Thermal Comfort Performance Indicator in the Vabi Building Performance Dashboard.

Vabi Comfort Optimizer™ takes Revit to a new higher performance automation level to deliver more of the promise of BIM by providing thermal comfort checking and decision support for your integrated BIM design approach. It is available to Revit users in a modern SaaS (Software as a Service) model under annual or monthly subscription.

Vabi Financial Simulator

From the Autodesk Exchange Apps website...

Vabi Financial Simulator™, working as a plugin within Autodesk® Revit®, pulls together and displays financial performance data and reveals the P&L Balance Sheet, Discounted Cash Flow and return on investment (ROI) impact of design decisions. It is quick and useful across BIM design teams as they consider design alternatives using net present value (NPV) comparisons of alternative design options from impact on building value to profitability. As a result optimal design decisions can be made and the long term viability of the project protected.

The Financial Simulator™ App:

1. Displays all financial results
2. Saves all financial indices in the BIM model
3. Accepts input financial indices such as rental rates and marketing costs for different types of occupancy
4. Uses floor areas and assigned occupancy types of rooms to calculate returns
5. Synchronizes with Revit units of measurement
6. Contributes various performance indicators in the Vabi BIM Performance Dashboard

Vabi Financial Simulator™ takes Revit to a new higher performance level to deliver more of the promise of BIM by providing clear financial implications for decision making within your integrated BIM design approach. It is available to Revit users in a modern SaaS (Software as a Service) model under annual or monthly subscription.

Free Autodesk Seek for Autodesk Revit Technology Preview

From the Autodesk Labs website...

The free technology preview of Autodesk® Seek for Revit allows you to conveniently access high quality BIM models, drawings, and product specifications for more than 66,000 commercial and residential building products, representing over 400 manufacturers, from inside Autodesk® Revit® 2015 or 2016 software.

Features

• Quickly search or browse over 66,000 products
• Easily place RFA or RFA swith additional Type Catalogs
• Preview product details before placement into your project
• Conveniently specify the download location for your files and your search results page size preference

There's more information available on the Autodesk Labs website.

Credit: 

free technology preview of Autodesk Seek for Autodesk Revit on Autodesk Labs http://t.co/lDgJcwVWBV #autodesklabs

— Autodesk Labs Scott (@scottsh115) June 2, 2015

Surfacer Add-in for Revit

From the Autodesk Exchange Apps website...

Surfacer includes four functionalities for surface creation. With these tools, users can create surfaces for columns, beams, walls and floors quickly, which can improve the design efficiency. Surfacer has the following powerful characteristics:

1. All of these tools for surface layer creation support linked model. That means you can pick an element in a linked model to create the surface layer.
2. If there are holes on walls or floors, openings can be created automatically based on the profiles of the holes on walls or floors.
3. Surfacer can search through the model to find a closed area and create surface layers only for the part of columns inside the closed area or outside of the closed area intelligently.

The Surfacer add-in is brought to you by eRevitSoft and is priced at USD 5.00.

There's more information available on the Autodesk Exchange Apps website.

Roundup – New and Updated Revit Add-ins on Autodesk Exchange Apps for the Week of 5/17/2015

NEW

HVACgbXmlCalc
Cooling load calculation based on gbXml file according to RTS method by ASHRAE

QuickVent
Quickly export room information into your ventilation calculation spreadsheet. Includes a Ventilation Rate table | USD 25.00

Stairs Builder
With Stairs Builder users can easily create fourteen kinds of the most common stairs and can create stairs across more than one level with different intervals | USD 25.00


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Advance Steel 2016 Extension
Advance Steel 2016 Extension enables BIM data exchange between Autodesk® Revit® 2016 and Advance Steel 2016, through a complete set of functionalities like import, export or synchronize | Free

Keynote Manager +
Simple, intuitive keynote file editing directly within Autodesk® Revit® | Trial

DigiPara® Elevatorarchitect 2015
Free plug-in to create elevator BIM models within Autodesk® Revit® 2014 and 2015 software | Free

CADtoWIN
CADtoWIN extends the Microsoft SharePoint functionality inside of Autodesk® Revit® by supporting common file operations like open, save and much more to SharePoint web sites | Trial

Selection Master
Filter the model for elements based on their level, category, parameter values, and more | Trial

RQuick Select
Select elements by family type and their properties | Free

Schedules Importer/Exporter
Import/Export operations over schedules (.XLS, .CSV, Google Docs, Google Disk) | Free