Free ScrubIT – Delete Unneeded Views, Plus Recursive Purge

From the Autodesk App Store:

BIM Optimized ScrubIT app allows your Autodesk® Revit® -Power Users to quickly select views, legends, schedules, and sheets for removal. This includes an optional appended Purge that will cycle until all unused items have been purged. The result is the leanest file possible to then transmit to consultants.

You can expect these benefits from using ScrubIT:

• Prevent over-sharing information.
• Protect your company’s IP/information.
• Lower file sizes for optimized storage and file transmission.
• Improve the use & loading of your model by consultants.

Free Formwork for Concrete Structure

From the Autodesk App Store:

This app aims to give access to the formwork library for reinforced concrete structures. The app capabilities are limited with respect to inserting components in the model. The future updates will bring functionalities to automate the modeling process of these components on a reinforced concrete structure model.

Create a new instance of each formwork component

Infraworks to Revit Interoperability Add-in from Autodesk – for Bridge and Tunnel Design

We posted about the new Infraworks to Revit Interoperability Add-in from Autodesk back in April. Details were non-existent at the time. Over on his BIM Chapters blog, Dan Stine posted about his exploration of the add-in.

From the BIM Chapters blog:

Infraworks to Revit add-in

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Autodesk has a new add-in listed in the Autodesk Desktop App called Infraworks to Revit. Don't get too excited just yet, unless you design bridges/tunnels in Revit. I am sure this functionality will expand in the future, but right now this add-in just supports bridges and tunnels.

If you are not familiar with Infraworks, in a super simplistic sense, it is to Civil 3D what FormIt is to Revit. In reality, Infraworks is much more sophisticated and I have heard that Autodesk is putting more resources into developing this preliminary design tool, than Civil 3D itself (but I have no way of knowing this for sure). The Infraworks screenshot below shows an area created automatically just by selecting a region; with grade, aerial iamge, existing roads and bridges, and even 3D building where public GIS data is available. New surfaces, roads and bridges can easily be added. Then, the surfaces, roads, bridges can be pushed into Civil 3D for further refinement and documentation. Some Civil 3D elements can also be imported into Infraworks.

Using Revit for detailed design of bridges and tunnels in InfraWorks; this Revit add-in allows you... to make changes to a bridge or tunnel in InfraWorks, and push those changes to the existing Revit model for that bridge or tunnel. Autodesk Revit 2019 is required.

Read more on the BIM Chapters blog »

Delete View Templates

From the Autodesk App Store:

Delete View Templates allows you to quickly delete multiple view templates from the project at once. The user can choose to delete all view templates in the project, or just the ones not in use by any views.

User Interface

QuickElectrical

From the QuickMEP website:

IT ALL STARTS WITH BIM…

With the architectural community transitioning off of 2D plans, it is time to make things simpler on the engineering side of AEC. QuickElectrical simplifies the modeling and linework for electrical engineers. Get QuickMEP today and allow your engineers to focus on client relationships and custom challenges, while we handle parameters and connections within the model.

AUTOMATED LINEWORK

Building spatial information is pulled into a backend database along with electrical parameters of families within the model. Use this information to generate the electrical riser with the click of a button.

Colossal-Size Roundup – For Jun 18 - Jul 15, 2018, New and Updated Revit Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store

We fell significantly behind last month, resulting in this normally weekly post becoming an outsized monthly one.

The weeks of June 18, June 25, July 2, and July 9 combined to make it a busy period for Revit-related add-ins on the Autodesk App Store. Twelve new add-ins were published and another fifty-eight were updated.

For new add-ins, for Revit, Avoid Clashes is for easily detecting and highlighting clashes between elements, Batch Hide / Unhide Links in Views is for hiding/unhiding linked files in multiple views, Batch Purge files location's is for purging unused project locations, BIM BOQ Quantifier is for generating bills of quantities, CG Finder is for calculating centroids of solid elements, Delete Filters is for quickly deleting view filters from projects, Kreo plugin is for exporting to Kreo, a cloud-based 4D, 5D, and BIM-based bid pricing solution, Light Distribution is for distributing lighting fixtures and devices in rooms, MagiCloud Connect is for downloading select MEP content, ViewFilterEz is for helping to manage view filters in one or more projects, and ViewIT is for optimized view navigation. For Autodesk Advance Steel, License Borrowed Dialog Closer is for closing License Borrowed dialog boxes automatically.

For updated add-ins, BIMcollab® BCF Manager for Autodesk® Navisworks®, BIMcollab® BCF Manager for Autodesk® Revit®, Dimensions by line, Door Factory Preview, ElumTools, Enscape™, IFC 2018, IFC 2019, Kubity Exporter, Preview Image Generator (P.I.G.) Batch!, and Revision + Cloud Manager each received relatively significant refreshes.

REVIT

New

CG Finder 2018
An Add-In for Autodesk® Revit® 2018 to calculate the centroid of a solid element or group of solid elements | Free
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About This Version: Version 2018.1.0.1, 7/12/2018 – First release of CG Finder.

Kreo Plugin

From the Autodesk App Store:

Plugin for exporting Autodesk® Revit® files to Kreo. Kreo is a cloud-based 4D, 5D, and BIM-based bid pricing solution powered by AI. For more details visit our website at www.kreo.net.

MEP_UpDown – Split MEP Elements Up or Down to Level by Angle

From the Autodesk App Store:

To avoid a clash, MEP elements (duct, pipe, cable tray, and conduit) need to level up or down.

With splitting the elements and input offset/angle value, the app redraws elements to level up or down.

EnR3D Generation – Convert 2D AutoCAD Objects into 3D Revit Elements

From the Autodesk App Store:

In Autodesk® AutoCAD®, the EnR3DGeneration tool converts 2D drawing entities to 3D Autodesk® Revit®. The available entities are walls, doors, windows, floors, stairs, trace, column, and roof.

The entities can be selected by layer or selection lines.

Batch Hide / Unhide Links in Views

From the Autodesk App Store:

• Batch Hide/Unhide linked Autodesk® Revit® file(s) in multiple Views.
• Hide unwanted Revit links from views in one go.

Free MagiCloud Connect for Autodesk® Revit® – Download Select MEP Content

From the Autodesk App Store:

MagiCloud Connect is an add-in for Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) designers using Autodesk® Revit®. When installing MagiCloud Connect, Revit users can download free of charge a selected portion of MagiCloud’s BIM objects inside native Revit projects in native Revit RFA format.

MagiCloud Connect also provides access to MagiCloud’s online tools for selecting and configuring manufacturer-specific MEP products. MagiCloud currently features online product selection and configuration tools from the manufacturers Vallox, including a selection of air handling units, and the Purus enabling detailed configuration of floor drains. When the selection tools are accessed via MagiCloud Connect, the selected products can be inserted directly into the Revit project in user-defined product sizes and dimensions. MagiCloud is currently the only BIM platform to offer online selection and configuration tools for MEP products.

Key Benefits:

1. Quick access to MagiCloud BIM object library. Connect enables you to access MagiCloud libraries and selection tools without leaving your project in Revit and place content directly into your project.
2. Revit compatible BIM objects. When a suitable object is found, the object can be inserted into a Revit project in Revit’s own RFA file format by simply clicking the ‘Install’ button.
3. Free to download and use. Access thousands of BIM objects and some advanced selection tools that will save you time and money.

Simple and easy to use search with wide selection
of products from wide range of manufacturers.

Kubity Exporter v4.2.1.0

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 4.2.1.0, 7/12/2018

What’s New?

• Geolocation
• Shadow Settings
• Cinematic Tour (fly through camera points automatically exported from Revit)
• Surface pattern color support

Description

This plugin enables the Export to Kubity option in Autodesk® Revit® — seamlessly transferring Revit projects straight to the Kubity mixed-reality multiplex. Simply click the export button and your Revit model will automatically open into the Kubity desktop app.

TrueLook Construction Cameras for BIM 360 Docs

From the Autodesk App Store:

TrueLook’s interactive cameras allow you to view live video and images from your jobsites, create custom time-lapse videos, and record 24/7 security video. TrueLook's BIM 360 integration will allow you to send any camera photo to BIM 360, access all historical time-lapse photos in  Autodesk® BIM 360®, and more.

• Create custom time-lapses for documentation and marketing, and access all images within BIM 360
• Send any photo from TrueLook to BIM 360 with optional markup
• Access your Autodesk contacts from within TrueLook

What's Hot in Revit Add-ons for July 2018

Here on Revit Add-ons, with What's Hot, at about the middle of each month, we take a look back at the preceding month to see which new posts received the most pageviews.

We published 19 posts in June 2018, a down month for us, and received 44,919 pageviews.

Our roundup of 5-star rated add-ins on the Autodesk App Store seemed to rate well with readers as it came in at #1. Landscape Terrain Modeler, Align v1.4.0, and Section View Aligner came in at #2, 3, and 5 respectively. Our roundup of new and updated add-ins on the Autodesk App Store from June 22 also charted, at #4.

Bird Tools' Tag Alignment Tool

From the Autodesk App Store:

The “Bird Tools Tag Alignment Tool” is an Autodesk® Revit® Add-in that aims to arrange Revit TAGS and TEXT NOTES that have been assigned leaders in a neat form, such that their “landing lines” are straight and that all of their leaders are parallel. It proves to be extremely useful in areas that are overpopulated with tags and text notes and thus helps the user move all the tags contained in the aforementioned area to another tag-free area with a single mouse click.