Ideate Explorer Users Report Tasks Performed Weekly

We are pleased to report the results of our August 2020 survey in which we asked BIM Managers and BIM Leads from around the world how often their office and staff use Ideate Explorer


In this blog post, we share information on the tasks they reported performing weekly. Here’s a link to the post about tasks performed daily. Keep an eye out for the third and last post in this series, which will be on tasks performed at various times during projects. 


Ideate Explorer is a comprehensive Revit model browser and Warnings management tool, as opposed to the Project Browser that comes with Revit software. Revit professionals use Ideate Explorer to keep their models clean and accurate, decrease the time they spend on model management, increase the accuracy of their models, and reduce file size.


Ideate Explorer Tasks Performed Weekly

Calculate Your Financial Return on Investment

In addition to enhancing the quality of Revit models and freeing users to focus on more valuable activities, the time saved by using Ideate Explorer can result in large financial savings. To help you convert the time you can save into dollars, we developed this ROI calculator. Simply enter a few data points to determine the approximate amount you could save by using Ideate Explorer instead of the functions within Revit. 


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Check out our Ideate Explorer ROI web page for other ways in which our clients use this powerful Revit add-in application to save time and money. 

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