As an Autodesk Authorized Developer, we are serious about developing plugins that help companies in the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner communities get the most out of their Autodesk® Revit® software. We regularly ask customers about challenges they face and workarounds they’ve developed, and we ask for feedback on the products we developed to address those challenges and eliminate clunky workarounds.
Recently we heard from Dan Dankert, CAD / BIM / VDC Manager at Mead & Hunt. He shared some ways he and his team are benefiting from IdeateApps, a set of four tools we launched last year to streamline the activities that daily Revit users perform most often - they are Ideate ReNumber, XRay, SmartDelete and QuickSelect. Here are his comments:
“IdeateApps are great time savers that help me support our users every day. Just this week I have used 2 of the apps, and its only Monday!
- “I used Ideate XRay to find display issues on two views when employees were having a hard time figuring out why they could not see families that should be visible in views. Not only did it provide an answer, it did it within seconds. The employee had spent minutes trying to figure it out by going through the complex hierarchy of Revit visibility rules.
- “The second app I used was Ideate ReNumber. I used it to renumber details on a sheet after moving them around to better match the client’s and our standards for a project. Not a complex process, but using the tool is both simpler and quicker than the classic ways in Revit.
“Each of these cases provided quick results that would have added stress and time to my daily tasks removing frustration in the process.”
Thank you, Dan, for sharing this information with us!
If you would like to experience the time-saving and stress-reducing benefits of IdeateApps, download the fully functional IdeateApps free trial.
For more information on Ideate Sticky and other Revit software add-ins that help customers get the most out of their Revit software, visit the Ideate Software website.