ReviTab

WIP toolbar for Revit.

DOCUMENTATION

Add View to Sheet

Add the active view to a sheet providing its number.

Add Multiple Views

Select multiple views in the project browser and add them to a sheet providing its number.

TOOLS

Create Multiple Sections

credits: Danny Bentley and others. Create a section from a list of elements that have a location curve.

Select All Text

Select all text notes in the project and launch the spelling check.

Create Viewset

Create a viewset from a list of sheet numbers.

Swap Grid Head

Swap the grid head bubble in the active view. Note: does not work for multi-segmented grids.

Override Dimension

Set the text dimension to "" for a selected dimension. Does not work on multiple elements or multi-segment dimensions.

Copy Linked Elements

Filter Element Selection

STRUCTURAL FRAMINGS

Place Void By Face

Add one ore more voids to a beam face providing the distance(s) from the beam start, mid or end point and its size.

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Void By Line

Place a void by face at the intersection between a 2d line (on plan) and a beam. The opening will acquire distance and size from the line style name.

Place Tags

Modeless window that calculates the distance from the origin to the beam centerpoint and saves it as Mark. The user can accept or refuse the changes.

Move beam end

Move a beam or multiple beams end point to another element location curve closest point.

Change Beam Location

Edit Beam End Join

WALLS

Split Wall by Levels

Copy a wall in place and set its Top and Base constraints to the level it intersects. Note:

1. The wall should not have a top/bottom offset applied;
2. The original wall will be deleted.

GEOMETRY

Element to DirectShape

Project Lines to Surface

Draw Axis

COMMAND LINE

Call methods directly: keywords:

• select

• create

• delete

> larger

< shorter

= equal

! not equal

examples:

*Structural Framing -> select all structural framings in the active view.

*Structural Framing+Length>10000 -> select all structural framings in the active view longer than 10m.

*Walls+Mark=aa -> select all walls with a Mark equal to 'aa'

sheets: all -> select all Sheets

sheets: A101 A103 A201 -> select Sheets by Sheet Number

tblocks: all -> select all Title Blocks

ZERO STATE

Push to DB

Export selected parameters to a db

Data can be then visualized with online dashboards like grafana

or desktop apps

Background Print

Open a model in background and print its drawings. The printer setting should be already defined in the Revit model. The default printer should be Bluebeam.

Purge Families

Purge families and leave only a type called Default. Requires the Purge Unused that can be found in the Revit Purge Unused branch. Credits: Matt Taylor https://gitlab.com/MattTaylor/RevitPurgeUnused/blob/master/PurgeTool.vb

Installation

Extract the content of https://github.com/giobel/ReviTab/blob/master/Addin.zip in %AppData%\Autodesk\Revit\AddIns\2019