It was Parkin’s goal of efficiently delivering innovative designs that led them to Ideate Software. Their initial need was for a tool that could move data from Revit to Excel for fast and accurate editing, and then push the updated data back into the Revit model.
“In 2012, we were using a simple application to copy data from a Revit file into Excel,” said Oscar. “It worked, but it crashed a lot. Constantly relaunching the program was frustrating and time consuming, so our team did some research to find a better, more efficient solution.”
While browsing the internet, they came across Ideate BIMLink, which had the functionality needed and had received positive feedback from customers (See blog post from 2011 – Real ROI for Revit Projects: Ideate BIMLink Survey Results). They reached out to Ideate Software, got a demonstration of the software, and secured licenses for their team of BIM managers and BIM coordinators.