Content and Family Management

TRAINING - VIDEO: Discover the time-saving power of Ideate Software's automation feature! Join Thesla Collier, Design Technology Manager, to learn how with just a click or scheduled automation, you can open all Revit files with work sets and close separate Revit sessions, saving valuable time each morning.

TRAINING - VIDEO | Join Thesla Collier, Design Technology Officer, as she discusses a common practice in which users duplicate elements and change wall types for documentation, leading to difficulties in quantifying insulation. Discover how Ideate BIMLink can efficiently change core material in walls, which addresses a limitation in Revit, where querying layers of system families in schedules is not possible. Check out this workflow and explore its capabilities, so that you no longer have to modify each wall individually.

TRAINING - VIDEO | Create a dynamic list of sheets based on built-in or custom Revit properties.

OVERVIEW - ARTICLE | Excel doesn’t even need to be installed for Ideate BIMLink to read and write Excel files.

OVERVIEW - ARTICLE | We at Ideate Software know that we create essential plugins for Revit because we actually address challenges expressed by Revit users.

CLIENT TESTIMONIAL - ARTICLE - PDF - VIDEO | Ideate Software is all about increasing the productivity, or the quality of work, plus the efficiency, or how well the resources available are used to produce that work, of architecture, engineering, construction, and owner-operator (AECO) professionals that work with Revit.

CLIENT TESTIMONIAL - ARTICLE - PDF | “It’ll save you a lot of time by ensuring your efforts at cleanup and standards maintenance don't cause inadvertent side effects.”

TRAINING - HOW-TO VIDEO | Use Ideate Automation to set up and schedule a comprehensive Revit model health check that will automate Ideate BIMLink, Ideate Explorer, and Ideate Annotate to publish a single Excel file with relevant information about the health of the selected Revit models.

TRAINING - HOW-TO VIDEO | Use Ideate Automation to set up and schedule a comprehensive Revit model health check.

OVERVIEW - VIDEO | Increase productivity, eliminate the need to train staff of repetitive tasks, and ensure task outcomes are highly predictable, free of user errors, and standardized with Ideate Automation. This scripting solution runs time-intensive BIM tasks in the background while staff does more meaningful work. Either started manually or scheduled to run at night, Ideate Automation is empowering and cost effective.

SUPPORT – ARTICLE | Microsoft Excel is the world’s most popular spreadsheet program. With an estimated 750 million users worldwide, it’s safe for us to assume that all readers of this blog post use it to organize, format, and calculate data, and that everyone knows how to use at least its basic functions of sorting, filling, and finding/replacing. Excel is a powerful part of our everyday professional and personal lives, completing tasks that would have taken hours in just seconds and eliminating the need to double or even triple check our work.