1. Revit Add-ins for BIM
Professionals
Revit Add-ins make your life easier! It’s helps you to automate your tedious tasks
and boost you productivity.
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2. Revit Add-ins for BIM Professional
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3. 1) Tools 4 BIM by AGACAD
➢ It offers a variety of Revit features that we may utilize to
enhance our present Revit workflow.
➢ Complete BIM software for prefabricated design, timber
and metal-construction design, sustainable design, MEP
engineering and BIM data management.
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2) pyRevit
➢ pyRevit helps you quickly sketch out your automation and
addon ideas, in whichever language that you are most
comfortable with, inside the Revit environment and using
its APIs.
➢ It also ships with an extensive set of powerful tools that
showcase its capabilities as a development environment.
4. 3) DiRoots.One
➢ 8 Autodesk Revit Productivity Tools for Data
Management, Filtering, Model Checking, Drawing
Production, Point Clouds, etc. Includes SheetLink,
FamilyReviser, OneFilter, TableGen, SheetGen,
ReOrdering, ParaManager, PointKit.
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4) Rush Forth Tools
➢ It is very useful tool for the Architects, Engineers,
Contractors, Fabricators, Content Providers, or any
other Revit user and it offers various features like
Link Revit to Excel, Manage shared parameters,
Extract Excel data or draw table formatting as
drafting view, Facilitate 3D section creation,
Automate project view and sheet setup, And much
more!
5. 5) Bird Tools
➢ As a must have package of Revit add-ins, Bird Tools aims
to boost your Autodesk® Revit® efficiency with:
Automated CAD-to-BIM Conversion, Smart Annotation
Alignment/Arrangement, Built-in Real Time Clash
Detection/Visualization, Dynamo® and BIM 360® Batch
Processing Integrated Revit®/BIM 360® , Activity
Logging/Monitoring and Instant Messaging And Much
More...
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6) SOFiSTiK BiMTOOLS
➢ SOFiSTiK BiMTOOLS are a set of free tools for
Autodesk® Revit® which enhances the productivity
for elaborations of views up to 50%.
6. 7) NAVIATE for Revit
➢ It help us to optimize our BIM process with project setup, model management, and documentation.
➢ It comes with 12 different packages which is extremely useful for Revit users.
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7. 1) RVT Xporter Pro
➢ RTV Xporter Pro is a Revit plugin for a rather specific use
case – it specializes in exporting and printing drawings in
many different formats.
➢ It works with many different formats – PDF, DXF, NWC,
DWG, IFC, or DWF(x).
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2) Xrey Transmit
➢ Streamline the tedious task of issuing your Revit drawings
and increase productivity 4 fold!
o Centrally managed settings
o Simultaneous Printing & Exporting of multiple
formats
o In-built PDF support
o Automatic File Naming
o Predefined Output Locations
o Customizable, automatically generated Transmittals
o Aconex Integration
8. 3) ProSheet by DiRoots
➢ The third great free plugin by DiRoots on this list is used
to bulk export your Revit file to multiple formats.
➢ You can also use the plugin to export to multiple formats
at once, like DWG + PDF.
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9. 1) Guardian by Iconic BIM
➢ Iconic BIM decided to confront the problem with a great
plugin called Guardian. You can program custom
warnings below when one of your users tries to do
something nasty, like exploding a CAD file. You can set a
custom text and ask for a password to proceed..
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2) Isolate Warnings by Archisoft
➢ This plugin allows you to visualize warnings in your
Revit model. It creates two 3D views: One called
Isolate Warning Elements and another called
OverrideWarningElement.
10. 3) Ideate Explorer
➢ This plugin does many things, but a highlight is the
Warnings Manager. It allows you to search, filter and
sort warnings by priority level. The most helpful feature
is probably the color code for warning priority.
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4) Colorsplasher by BIMONE
➢ Filters can be quite cumbersome to set up. A great
and free plugin you should use to create visual
representation is Colorsplasher by BIM One. It
allows you to automate a color scheme based on the
value of elements. In the example below, you can
see each “year” parameter is represented by a
different color.
11. 5) BIM Interoperability Tool
➢ These free Autodesk apps are designed to help architects, engineers,
contractors and owners with their Building Information Modeling
(BIM) workflows. Autodesk Equipment Data Tool for Revit · Autodesk
Room & Area Sync for Revit · Autodesk Standardized Data Tool for
Revit · Autodesk Model Checker for Revit.
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6) Revizto
➢ Revizto’s Revit plugin offers an unparalleled set of features for
seamless collaboration between different instances. You can use it to
track existing issues and create new ones, export models into Revizto
altogether, schedule exporting as a process, and so much more.
12. 7) BCF Manager
➢ BCF Managers enable you to create, save, merge, filter and lookup
issues within your model. Available for all popular BIM tools.
➢ It offers features like Efficient interface, Camera positioning, High
performance, Connect to Navisworks clash-detective.
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8) BIM Track
➢ BIM Track® provides a central hub for all coordination information
from design to construction. With information at your fingertips, you
can get access to your data anytime, anywhere, either from a
desktop or mobile device.
13. 9) Coins Auto-section
➢ The COINS Auto-Section Box tool gives you tremendous speed and
agility over managing three-dimensional views when analyzing
model areas of particular interest. It allows you to quickly create
temporary and permanent views to be used for immediate
interrogation of the model.
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14. 1) Enscape for Revit
➢ Enscape's Revit rendering plugin allows designers to
create high quality, real time Revit renders with zero
disruption to your workflow.
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2) V-Ray for Revit
➢ V-Ray® for Revit architectural rendering software is
renowned for its photorealistic quality. Deep
integration ensures that you can work without
leaving Revit and innovative tools enable advanced
visualization techniques without altering your
original BIM data. From early mock-ups to final
design, Chaos® V-Ray has all the tools you need to
visualize your Revit projects.
15. 3) Lumion LiveSync for Revit
➢ The Lumion LiveSync for Revit plug-in includes two features —
LiveSync and a Collada (.DAE) exporter. Now, you can view and
change your Revit model in real-time in Lumion, as well as
export a Collada (.DAE) file from Revit and import (or re-import)
it seamlessly into Lumion.
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4) Twinmotion for Revit
➢ The Datasmith Exporter plugin for Revit features
Direct Link functionality that enables you to
synchronize your files into Twinmotion with a single
click. You can also synchronize multiple files from
Revit into the same Twinmotion project, or even mix
and match them with files from Archicad, Rhino, or
SketchUp Pro.
16. 5) The Wild
➢ This Revit Add-In turns any 3D View into a Space in a single click,
creating a persistent link between your file and The Wild.
Experience your Revit model at human-scale in virtual and
augmented reality. Meet in real time from anywhere in the world
for better alignment and smarter decisions.
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6) IRIS VR
➢ Prospect makes it easy to perform QA/QC and host design review
meetings in a 1:1, true to scale environment. With Prospect +
Revit, what you see is what you get—everything in your 3D view
is converted directly into VR, including materials, element-level
BIM metadata, and more.
17. 1) Dynamo
➢ Dynamo BIM is an open-source tool that can perform BIM
with the use of a graphical algorithm editor.
➢ Dynamo is often used for modeling automation and pricing,
allowing designers to work on various drafts of certain
elements before committing. Traditionally,
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2) Dyno Browser
➢ Dyno is equally good for work with Dynamo algorithmic
architecture workspaces, various automatization and
extending Revit possibilities. Dyno provides versatile and
simple possibilities for making work with Dynamo
workspaces faster
18. 3) Revit Lookup
➢ Its primary purpose is to offer users the ability to view the raw
database, which is not something that your regular user might want.
➢ It is advantageous when it comes to locating read-only parameters
and their values, which makes them more or less essential for the
users of pyRevit
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4) Nonica Tab
➢ Nonica. Integrate & Share your Dynamo scripts as
Revit buttons in hundreds of PCs! in hundreds of
PCs!office wide!with other organisations! Solutions.