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Ideate Sticky: Overview; Case Studies; Videos; Support

Easily Link, Import, Integrate and Format Non-BIM Data into Revit Projects

Revit schedules are the perfect tool to represent the data behind your Revit elements, but the lack of a text editor in Revit makes organizing and formatting other essential non-BIM data frustrating and time consuming. Ideate Sticky for Revit combines the ease and flexibility of Excel, Word and PDF editing with the convenience of a sticky note. Use Ideate Sticky to elegantly connect non-BIM data from an Excel, Word or PDF document into Revit projects, enhancing cross-team workflows.

Review Sticky Schedules and Sticky Images comparison

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“My last employer was a strong user and advocate of Ideate Software products. I came to JGMA knowing their power, and after a few discussions and demonstrations of how we would spend less time on tedious Revit tasks, the team was sold.”

~ Darya Minosyants Stefanovic, JGMA

Best Usage Examples

Our customers use Ideate Sticky in various creative ways. Here are a few usage example that are exceptionally creative. We hope they will inspire you to put Ideate Sticky to great use.

To be featured on this page, please email your best usage examples of Word, Excel or PDF documents in a Revit project involving Ideate Sticky to [email protected]. We want to celebrate your creativity.

Mohamed Masihullah, Digital Engineer, Laing O'Rourke Middle East

“In our projects there are frequently many types of manholes with varied heights, diameters, etc., which we control through the use of family (length) parameters. This size information, stored as unshared family parameters, cannot be scheduled in Revit.” However, using Ideate BIMLink he is able to easily export this information to Excel and then link the results back into Revit via Ideate Sticky (shown in yellow within the image below). This workflow “has saved us a lot of time by allowing us to schedule all the manholes in a single drawing rather than make individual drawings”.

Michael Germano, Project Architect at JacobsWyper Architects

“The North Carolina "Appendix B" code summary is required on all drawings for permit. Previously, this form needed to be recreated in Revit with drafting lines and text boxes and was very cumbersome or filled out in work, then PDF'd and converted to a JPEG to be inserted into the drawings. With Ideate Sticky, I have recreated the Appendix B form in Excel and am easily able to directly import into Revit. This saves our team considerable time, and make sure that our code summary is always up-to-date.” said Michael.

Click on the image below to view the PDF. Ideate Sticky information highlighted in yellow.

Gary Mo, BIM Manager at NBBJ

In this example, they linked a calculation table from Excel to their life safety sheet for a hospital project.

Click on the image to expand it. Ideate Sticky information highlighted in yellow.

Publish Code Checklists, Starting Views, and Data Design

With Ideate Sticky, Revit professionals can also:

Import as a static element or as a dynamic link
Update non-BIM consultant data from MS Excel into Revit
Link Excel, Word and PDFs to Revit projects
Represent subtotaled data or matrix data
Use Ideate BIMLink to export model information to Excel for editing and then import from Excel into Revit, and then use Ideate Sticky to display that information in Revit

Let Ideate Sticky manage the look and feel of your text and other tabular data. You can fluidly edit the text within Excel and highlight updated information. Keep client-specific requests, consultant information or contractor updates front and center for your designers and other teams. Other schedules do not interfere with table creation or modification, and the table generated does not accidentally start scheduling things. Large and complex Revit projects can benefit from scores of Ideate Sticky notes with automatic updates. Enjoy the benefits of formatting inside of Excel or Revit. What will you Sticky?

What are the benefits of exporting Excel to Revit?

By moving data from Excel to Revit, you can use the powerful tools within Excel to view or edit massive amounts of data quickly. Then you can display the data and formatting perfectly in Revit using Ideate Sticky, thus ensuring the data is accurate.

Why choose Ideate Sticky

Ideate Software launched Ideate Sticky in 2015 to allow Revit users to use schedule headers to efficiently and elegantly represent tabular data. Since then, we have added many customer-requested features.

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