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Create New Revit Elements or Types
Use Ideate BIMLink to create Revit elements or types for families such as View Types, Generic Annotation Types, etc.

Manage Revit Sheet-based Revisions
Ideate BIMLink can be used to manage sheet-based revision data in Revit.

Create a Model Health Check
Setup a comprehensive Revit Model Health Check and publish to a single Excel file with relevant information about the health of the selected Revit model.

Use Ideate BIMLink for Quality Control
Custom Ideate BIMLink properties or unexposed Revit properties make Ideate BIMLink your Quality Control go-to solution.

Manage Key Schedule Data
Create and edit Revit Key Schedule data.

Quickly Manage Revit Project Standards
Use Ideate BIMLink to standardize Revit family content.

Set Up Projects
Use Ideate BIMLink to set up levels, views, sheets, and viewports for a new Revit project.

Utilize Type Swapping
Learn how to use Ideate BIMLink to swap one Revit element for another.

Manage Calculated Values within Tags
Sample methods for pushing calculated values into Tags or Revit Schedules and using Excel Pivot Tables to calculated values.

Leverage Linked File Data
Tips for working with Revit Linked File data in Ideate BIMLink.

Assign Revit Space Types
Use a pre-defined list in Excel to expedite filling out the Space Type property using sample link files with Ideate BIMLink.

Construction Tasks
Use Ideate BIMLink to manage a variety of construction-related tasks in Revit.

Use Ideate Sticky with Ideate BIMLink
Import re-formatted Ideate BIMLink data via Ideate Sticky.

Export Multiple Links into the Same Excel
Make your model data portable be exporting to a single Excel file.

Instructional Videos
Online videos demonstrating some of the many uses of Ideate BIMLink for Revit.

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