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CLIENT TESTIMONIAL - ARTICLE - PDF | “Delivering as promised is critical, and Ideate Software helps us do that.”
ARTICLE - OVERVIEW | Since launching Ideate Explorer at Autodesk University in 2008, Ideate Software has been committed to helping Revit users unlock advanced functionality and efficiency in their BIM designs.
NEWS - ARTICLE | Welcome to the world, Revit 2025! For those who may have missed it, the newest version of Revit slipped into our subscription centers quietly in early April. You can learn about Autodesk’s version of What’s New in 2025 online, but if you ask me, the best new feature is the ability to now align text and tags.
TRAINING - ARTICLE | Controlling the output of files is performed with the set-up wizard in Ideate Automation. We improved the Revit DWG export settings, and you can control the naming of the DWGs better and add custom parameters where needed.
TRAINING - ARTICLE - VIDEO | With our latest enhancements, users can batch add tags to Revit projects, decreasing the time it takes to manage tags and improving their accuracy.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | The numbering of Rooms or Spaces is often the most subjective of numbering tasks. Here are two ways to do it using Ideate ReNumber.
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 | Door elements exist between two rooms. Often, the numbering goal is to associate the door number with a particular room number, so listing both room numbers is not always useful.
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 | The size of a Sticky in Revit is determined by the named regions defined within the associated Excel worksheet. Ideate Sticky will default to use the defined Print Area, if available.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Revit provides information on keynotes via the keynote legend and on revisions in the form of the revision schedule. However, the process is labor intensive.
