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Ideate Explorer
Keep your Revit models clean and accurate with Ideate Explorer Revit, which provides additional ways to ensure model accuracy through its four components: Ideate Warnings Manager, Ideate Query, Ideate Navigate, and Ideate Filters.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Zooming can be accomplished within Revit while Ideate Explorer is running. Learn more about the conditions in which it is useful to access the tools.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | In-place Revit families are powerful elements that can be created in the context of the Revit model. However, they come with some performance trade-offs. Ideate Explorer can help.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Recently a customer asked if we provide a tool that can report on whether schedules and legends are placed/not placed on sheets. In case you’ve wondered that too, here’s our response.
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.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Ideate Software Installer is a one-click tool to help deploy Ideate Software throughout an organization. The installer package includes all the MSI files for the most recent versions of all our desktop solutions.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | The Ideate Health Check Report is completely customizable, so you can set your own preferred KPIs and metrics for model health.
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 | The newly published Revit 2024.1 update, released on July 11, 2023, appears to introduce a new schema error when opening some files that previously contained Ideate Software and/or other 3rd party add-in data, which are stored as Schemas.
TRAINING - VIDEO | Even if you have learned a bit about our May 2023 updates, you’ll want to watch this 30-minute recording to make sure you have better knowledge of the new features.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | To provide the best possible collaborative environment between Autodesk Construction Cloud Revit models and other non-Revit documentation, we design Ideate Software solutions to be integrated with Autodesk Desktop Connector when possible.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | A customer reached out to us with a question about Ideate Explorer, which is his “favorite troubleshooting add-in to clear out warnings in a hot mess of a project.”
NEWS - ARTICLE | A recent change to the Autodesk Desktop Connector includes new file path locations for all local files. This change is described in the recent Desktop Connector Release Notes. While this is a deja-vu-all-over-again situation, we hope the information below will be useful in weathering this change. In a future blog post, we will discuss some of the positive impacts of the newer version, but for now, please review the information below to prepare for the risks.
TRAINING - ARTICLE | Trying to navigate your way around a Revit model can be a challenging and time-consuming exercise. Fortunately, Ideate Software tools are on hand to make this easier and more efficient. When you are searching for a particular value or element within the Ideate Software applications, how you specify the search term can affect the results produced.
SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Utilized the Query function within Ideate Explorer and search for the parameter “Tag Text” to be able to list all the tags that have a prefix and a suffix in this project. Ideate QuickSelect in IdeateApps also has the advanced search for text within the Tag Text parameter.
