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.

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.