Roundup – For the Week of February 27 - March 5, 2017, New and Updated Revit Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store

The week of February 27, 2017 saw the release of four Revit add-ins on the Autodesk App Store: UpgradeBlocker, for preventing accidental upgrades and opening of central models, RevEx, for modifying Revit model information in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, XDoor, for classifying and scheduling door handing/swing directions, and MEP Highlighter, for highlighting MEP items by System Classification or System Name.

A few add-ins were also updated, including Ultimate Plugin Suite, which received a relatively significant update.

New

UpgradeBlocker
Prevents accidental Project Upgrades and opening of Central Models | USD 4.50
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About This Version: Version 1.0.0, 3/3/2017 – Initial Release.

iSync Ultimate – Automatically Relinquish, Save, Synchronize and Even Exit Revit (Updated)

From the Archigrafix website:

Don’t lose your work.

iSync ultimate improves teamwork collaboration, saves your work, and reduces the license costs with Revit. iSync eliminates locked objects, unsaved files, and closes unused revit sessions whenever your workers are absent. The ultimate edition supports saving projects to central files.

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iSync Ultimate is brought to you by Archigrafix. It's priced at 69.90 USD.

This add-in is compatible with Revit 2017 and 2016.

There's more information available on the Archigrafix website, and on the Autodesk App Store.

Related

• iSync Pro – Automatically Relinquish and Save
• iSync Basic – Automatically Save

Updated on March 28, 2017 to include the link to the add-in on the Autodesk App Store.

iSync Pro – Automatically Relinquish and Save (Updated)

From the Archigrafix website:

Don’t lose your work.

iSync Pro improves teamwork collaboration and saves your work. iSync Pro automatically relinquish locked objects and saves when you are away.

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iSync Pro is brought to you by Archigrafix. It's priced at 49.90 USD.

This add-in is compatible with Revit 2017 and 2016.

There's more information available on the Archigrafix website, and on the Autodesk App Store.

Related

• iSync Ultimate – Automatically Relinquish, Save, Synchronize and Even Exit Revit
• iSync Basic – Automatically Save

Updated on March 28, 2017 to include the link to the add-in on the Autodesk App Store.

iSync Basic – Automatically Save (Updated)

From the Archigrafix website:

Don’t lose your work.

Keep your changes saved. iSync basic saves your local Revit files automatically whenever you take a break.

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iSync Basic is brought to you by Archigrafix. It's priced at 29.90 USD.

This add-in is compatible with Revit 2017 and 2016.

There's more information available on the Archigrafix website, and on the Autodesk App Store.

Related

• iSync Ultimate – Automatically Relinquish, Save, Synchronize and Even Exit Revit
• iSync Pro – Automatically Relinquish and Save

Updated on March 28, 2017 to include the link to the add-in on the Autodesk App Store.

Free DynaSlack – Dynamo Package Providing Integration with Slack

From GitHub:

Dynamo package providing integration with Slack, allowing you to post messages to Slack, currently via webhooks only.

Includes support for :

• Slack text formatting
• using an emoji or image as message icons
• setting integration name (equivalent to a person’s name on Slack)

Soon to include support for :

• OAuth flow
• posting as a bot
• posting as a user

UpgradeBlocker – Prevent Accidental Upgrades and Opening of Central Models

From the Autodesk App Store:

This app intercepts an Autodesk® Revit® file that the user has selected for opening to verify the following:

1. If the version of Revit that the file was last saved in matches the version of Revit that is opening the file.
2. If the user is attempting to directly open a Central Model that others may or may not be connected to.

Free Macro Code to Select All Dependent Elements that will be Deleted if the Target Element is Deleted

From Twitter:

A short macro that will select all dependent elements which will get deleted as a consequence of deleting a single element. pic.twitter.com/eRHbNFOrrC

— Archilizer (@didonenov) March 2, 2017

Webinar Video: Virtual Reality For Architects, Engineers, and Contractors

From the EvolveLAB website:

Virtual Reality For Architects, Engineers, and Contractors

March 3, 2017

By Bill Allen & Marcello Sgambelluri

There is a lot of hype around Virtual Reality as of late. With all the chatter, it's hard to know what is relevant. Award winning speaker Marcello Sgambelluri presented on the LAB Live show giving us a sneak peak at 'Practical' Uses for Virtual Reality within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industry. Learn how to harness this technology, and blow the minds of those within your office.

Free Webinar March 6, 2017 - May 22, 2017: NBS Create & Plug-in for Autodesk Revit Demo

From the registration website:

Please register for ' NBS Create & Plug-in for Autodesk® Revit® DEMO'
NBS Create offers a simple way for managing information, knowledge and specification data; saving you time and money whilst minimising risk.

This web seminar will provide an overview of what NBS Create can offer you, and how it will fundamentally change and improve your specification and information process.

We will also guide you through coordinating graphical and non-graphical data, synchronised design guidance, generation of outline specification, association reporting through the Plug-in for Autodesk® Revit®

Contact Organizer

This training is offered several times from March 6, 2017 to May 22, 2017.

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Register here.

Free Webinar March 16, 2017: Openings for MEP Services, Builders Work Drawings, & Fire Safety Components

From the AGACAD website:

WEBINAR: Openings for MEP services, builders work drawings, and fire safety components

This webinar is intended for modelers, MEP modelers, MEP engineers, fire protection engineers, fire sprinkler system designers.

RevXL – Link Excel Spreadsheets into Revit while Preserving Formatting (Updated)

From the RevDev Studios website:

RevXL – Spreadsheet Data Link Utility for Autodesk Revit

CREATE MICROSOFT EXCEL SPREADSHEETS IN REVIT
UPDATE SPREADSHEET LINKS IN ONE CLICK
UTILIZE YOUR OWN FORMATS AND TEMPLATES FOR SPREADSHEETS

WHAT IS REVXL?

RevXL is a spreadsheet data link utility that allows users to import their existing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into Revit while preserving formatting, fonts, and
information.

RevEx – Modify Revit Model Information in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets

From the Autodesk App Store:

RevEx is a must have utility in the ever expanding BIM industry. The built-in scheduling and spreadsheet tools in Autodesk® Revit® do not provide adequate ability to convert, manipulate, and handle data for a vast amount of data stored in each model. RevEx provides you with the means to handle your data, using the spreadsheet tools you are comfortable with, in a profoundly more efficient manner than has ever been possible.

View Sets – Save and Retrieve View Configurations

From the Revin' It Up website:

View Sets allows you to Save View configurations for quick retrieval. You specify the layout and which views go where. View Sets also allows you to synchronize views in that set to the active view!

Free Sample of Using Autodesk Forge to Access Revit Model Properties

From Jeremy Tammik's The Building Coder blog:

RVT Properties to XLS and Forge Accelerators

Are you interested in easy access to your Revit model properties?

Well, you can have that, and you can even do so without a need to install Revit.

The Forge Model Derivative API extracts a streamlined copy of all geometry, BIM element hierarchy and properties from over fifty file formats, and Revit RVT files are just one of them.

Augusto Goncalves implemented the viewer-javascript-extract.spreadsheet Forge sample to read all the properties on all BIM elements in an RVT file and export them to an XLSX spreadsheet.

Autodesk LIVE Rebranded as Autodesk Revit Live with New Version 1.7 Release

From the Autodesk website:

Interactive visualization for Revit and Revit LT

Step inside your design. With a single click, the Autodesk® LIVE service transforms Revit models into interactive visualizations that you can present, or share with others to explore on their own.

What’s New in 1.7

The following list contains new and improved features in this release:

LIVE Service
Level of Details geometry generation and material instancing have been added to the LIVE Service to enhance performance when working with large models and/or virtual reality.