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Content and Family Management
Entering, updating, and verifying the accuracy of Revit content and family data is easy with Ideate Software tools. Peruse these articles for step-by-step instructions, opportunities to meet with our team, client success stories, and more.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Ideate BIMLink allows the creation of new Sheets in Revit using data from an Excel spreadsheet. You can create sheets with a specified title block or you can create a placeholder sheet.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | The Revit interface has limitations in terms of editing large amount of data. Ideate BIMLink allows you to edit model data by exporting it to Excel and pushing it back into Revit.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | When a link definition has been created in another project and saved to disk as a .link file, it can be then loaded back into a new project.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Type swapping can be used to edit the kind of title block assigned to each sheet in the Revit project. This is easily accomplished with Ideate BIMLink.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | In the Quality Control folder you'll find a variety of tasks, such as checking the fire rating of the wall against the fire rating of the door, or in checking the elevation height of all devices.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | The Revit interface has limitations in terms of editing large amount of data. Ideate BIMLink allows you to edit model data by exporting it to Excel and pushing it back into Revit.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Link names are limited to 25 characters or less due to Excel worksheet name requirements.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Links are automatically saved and read from the Revit project, template or family file. Here are some ways to easily re-use links.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Ideate BIMLink allows the creation of new Sheets in Revit using data from an Excel spreadsheet. You can create sheets with a specified title block or you can create a placeholder sheet.
CLIENT TESTIMONIAL - ARTICLE - PDF | “Delivering as promised is critical, and Ideate Software helps us do that.”
CLIENT TESTIMONIAL - ARTICLE | WRNS uses Autodesk Revit and Ideate Explorer for Revit to maintain a clean, powerful model database, and to make speedy global changes.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Learn how to export Revit data to Excel. Ideate BIMLink eliminates the need for time to be spent on manual, repetitive tasks by enabling users to export Revit data to Excel.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | You may know that you can create new Revit elements with Ideate BIMLink. Did you know that following a similar process, you can also create new Revit revision sequences?
CLIENT TESTIMONIAL - ARTICLE - PDF | As companies find themselves in need of knowledge and capacity to prepare COBie documents, many are turning to Evolve. To streamline the process of populating the models, Evolve depends on Ideate BIMLink.
