Best Revit Plugins for BIM Managers

Posted by Parshvanath Kale on November 22nd, 2022

What is Revit?

Revit BIM software helps architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) teams create high-quality buildings and infrastructure. Using Autodesk's software, users may design a building in 3D, mark it with 2D sketching tools, and access data stored in the model's database.

• Model shapes, structures, and systems in 3D with parametric accuracy, precision, and ease
• Streamline documentation work, with instant revisions to plans, elevations, schedules, and sections as projects change
• Empower multidisciplinary teams with specialty toolsets and a unified project environment

There are several plugins and connectors for Revit. These plugins can help teams work more efficiently by streamlining processes, saving time and money, and tailoring the Revit experience to each user's demands.

The BIM manager's job includes a significant amount of setting up systems to automate tedious and repetitive tasks. Let's discuss some popular Revit software plugins and integrations. You may maximise your productivity with the aid of this top-notch customised software stack and plugins.

Top 5 Revit Plugins

1. Color Splasher (BIMOne)

This Revit plugin enables users to visually inspect and validate data in a model. It was first created by BIM One and is now available as open-source on GitHub.

Color Splasher allows users to view errors or missing data by filtering, selecting, and colouring components based on values of a defined parameter. When the user chooses the right category, a parameter, and then colours for each value of this parameter, Color Splasher completes the remaining work.

You can make a colour scheme based on the parameter values of elements using Revit's basic tools, but it takes a lot of time and effort.

If Color Splasher is not installed, users must use the Filters tool to define a specific category of objects before adding the filter to the Visibility/Graphics menu with a colour override. This procedure is sped up and made easier with Color Splasher.

2. BIMLink (Ideate)

Ideate created BIMLink, a Revit connector. Users of Revit can export significant data from a Revit file to Microsoft Excel using BIMLink, and vice versa (e.g., send precise BIM data back from Excel into their 3D model).

Excel's ability to display many lines of data simultaneously is fully utilised by BIMLink. Overall, by improving Revit data structure and minimising "double data processing," the plugin seeks to lower the possibility of manual errors, avoid expensive on-site delays, and decrease error-based redo.

Contrarily, BIMLink aims to make it easier for Revit and non-Revit users to work together by enabling the entire team to access pertinent data without having to launch Revit.

3. Guardian (Iconic BIM)

A robust BIM system can effectively address the human factor with Guardian. Administrators can design unique alerts for particular actions, like deleting a crucial file, using this Revit plugin. Custom warnings are the feature that customers are most accustomed to, however Guardian may offer a range of other options, such as needing a password for each such operation, additional mapping components, etc.

No matter how many times you warn your users not to add erroneous families to your project or explode a CAD file inside a model, it still happens. Iconic BIM decided to use the excellent plugin Guardian to address the problem. You can designate certain warnings below to appear if one of your users tries to do anything bad, like bursting a CAD file. You can edit the text and ask for a password to continue.

4. Family Reviser (DIRoots)

FamilyReviser is a tool that, as its name suggests, is focused on a single specialist task, in this case, Revit family administration. It can be used to export and import the aforementioned families, as well as to modify their names by appending a suffix or prefix, among other things. Additionally, you can use it to create "worksets" from particular families, which makes it much simpler to assign particular groups to different areas of a project. You can even establish restrictions for those worksets. Unfortunately, it is usual to advocate utilising worksets as little as possible in order to increase Revit's clarity.

5. ParaManager (DIRoots)

In Revit, there is no way to quickly add a large number of common parameters to a project or a family.

The sole purpose of the somewhat unique ParaManager Revit plugin is to provide users with the ability to add parameters to several groups at once, which the original Revit regrettably does not do. It's only another method for accelerating or perhaps fully automating some of the more time-consuming Revit-related tasks.