RushForth Tools for
Revit: Release Notes
2023-09-23:
- RF Automator
- Fixed issue where Revit
would stay open on some machines even after completing tasks instead of
closing.
- Creating .bat files now
uses generic %userprofile% path for the application path so that a .bat
file created by one user can be used by other users without having to
edit the path inside the .bat file
- New print option to place
files in dated subfolder so that you have the option to have recurring
PDF prints to not overwrite previous prints
- Printing linked model
sheets no longer skips PDFs if the link has placeholder sheets
- Important: If you
have pinned the RF Automator to your taskbar for use outside of Revit,
you will still need to click the RF Automator button in Revit at least
once in one version of Revit to see the updated version.
- Model Manager/Parameter
Transformer
- Circuit.Frame property
added as an available parameter
- Fixed issue where some type
parameters may not show up in selection option if the element type only
exists in a linked model and not the current model
- Parameter Linker
- Assembly sheets now show
under their own category in the selection viewer for easier filtering and
editing of Assembly parameters
- Fixed issue when some
system families would not show available parameters when selecting types
in the model treeview
- Circuit.Frame property
added as an available parameter
- Project Setup
- Data grids now have
alternating colored rows for easier navigation
- View lists now have view
name column frozen so it stays visible
- Viewport coordinate
calculations are much faster in Revit 2023, 2024. Slightly faster in
Revit 2021, 2022.
- View template names in
selectors of final view creation list are now sorted like those in the
template lists
- Viewport coordinates: You
can now select which viewport origin coordinates you would like to modify
so you can align to middle of viewport, top right, top left, etc.
- Create Views tab now has
adjustable layout and size grips to enlarge sections of the tab to make
tables larger for editing
- DraftXL
- Notes added in the options
tab to indicate how to adjust the scale of imports as needed
- Display Clashes
- Report now displays user
names of those who created the clashing elements
2023-07-06:
- RF Automator
- Fixed an issue that prevented
some Revit 2020 and Revit 2021 automations from being scheduled.
2023-06-30:
- Customize Ribbon
- Options for excluding RF
Automator and Run C# added to the customize dialog
- RF Automator
- New Feature: Automate
printing of sheets from multiple models and links, including multiple
options for saving and naming of files
- New Feature: Create
.bat files for convenient starting of automations (Example: instead of
scheduling sheet prints at a certain time, you can wait until your team
is ready and just start the automation at that time)
- Changed folder browser in
RVT/NWC Export options to allow for better pasting of network paths
- Automation task start time
added to log entries
- Now prevents windows
scheduler tasks from creating a duplicate identical tasks in the same
queue
- To avoid central file
performance issue, when opening a model that is hosted on a local
network, the tool will now create a local copy linked to the central
instead of opening the central directly
- Fixed directory selector
button in schedule settings, also can paste paths directly from windows
explorer
- Parameter Linker
- Fixed issue when rooms in a
non-workshared link may not get tagged using the room tag options
- Parameter Scheduler
- When converting family
parameters to shared parameters, the user modifiable property now always
defaults to user modifiable=1
- DraftXL
- New option to open files
read-only to allow you to import files that are opened by another user
without any warnings
2023-04-07:
- New Tool: RF Automator
- This tool allows you to
initiate tasks from outside of Revit and schedule recurring Revit tasks
on multiple models
- Allows you to open a model
while suppressing all warnings to avoid interruptions to the open process
- You can schedule a large
model to open the next morning before you start work so it is ready for
you when you start your day
- The RVT/NWC exporter tool
is integrated into the RF Automator so you can schedule recurring backup
downloads of your BIM360 projects and linked models to your network
folders
- Run your own custom C# code
on multiple models to automate any kind of task you can imagine and code
- Further features and tool
integration into this platform is in progress
- New Tool: Run C# Code
- Run C# code directly in
your model without having to compile or distribute your solution
- Allows for easy testing and
changing of code
- Includes multiple C# code
examples for performing tasks such as filtering for elements, exporting
parameter values to a text file, deleting elements, and selecting
elements
- Includes a link on the form
for “Automate this!” which will allow you to create a preset for use in
scheduling this task in the new RF Automator tool for one or multiple
models
- Model Manager/Parameter
Transformer
- Better support for excel
files stored on Microsoft OneDrive without getting locked by OneDrive
- Parameter Linker
- Significant performance
improvements for filtering categories and parameters
- Location values no longer
show as discrepancies if close enough (within 1/10000 of an inch)
- One to Many links: Added
the ability for the matching tools to identify more than one available
link to make per source element. This was previously possible only with
saved rules.
- Project Setup
- Significant speed increases
for projects using complex settings templates
- Added link with
instructions on how to create phased spaces from phased rooms
- 2022 and later: View Title
offsets now react to the option of computing with annotations off
- Better support for excel
files stored on Microsoft OneDrive without getting locked by OneDrive
- RVT/NWC Export
- Added a link on the form
for “Automate this!” which will allow you to create a preset for use in
scheduling this task in the new RF Automator tool
- Element Tagger
- Tagging elements in linked
model will no longer create tags for elements that are not visible in the
view being tagged
- DraftXL
- Fixed an issue that could
make the tool appear to be frozen when excel was waiting for a dialog box
to be closed.
- Better support for excel
files stored on Microsoft OneDrive without getting locked by OneDrive
- Display Clashes
- Fixed issue where dependent
view clash results wouldn't always be cleared properly
- Added ElementID information
to the clash report
2022-04-20:
- DraftXL
- The user notification of
files to update on project-open is now an optional notification in the
lower right corner instead of pausing and requiring the user to respond
to the pop-up
2022-04-06:
- NEW TOOL: Display Clashes
- New button on toolbar that
allows you to display all clashes that affect the elements in your current
view
- A report is generated
showing the number and types of each clash (which categories are
clashing)
- You can select any number
of sheets or views to display clashes for easy coordination
- After displaying clashes on
all your sheets, you could print out the report and a review set of
drawings for others to review as well
- Model Manager/Parameter
Transformer
- When exporting room
properties for an element, if there are rooms from multiple phases, it
defaults first to the phase of the current element.
- For panel schedule graphics
elements, you can now export the panel name of the equipment scheduled as
this can be different than the panel schedule name.
- Spare electrical circuits
can now export, edit, and import the circuit rating property
- Exporting multiple
schedules at the same time now creates a separate Excel or CSV export for
each schedule instead of combining them in a single file.
- View Reference Sheet Number
property now exports the sheet number properly
- Parameter Linker
- Saved rules will no longer
create new links if the elements are already linked in reverse.
- Project Setup
- New columns in the Manage
Viewports tab to control the Viewport Title Line Length, Offset X, and
Offset Y (Revit 2022 and later)
- Space renaming tool from
linked room names: if there are rooms from multiple phases, it defaults
first to the phase of the current space.
- Fixed some display issues
that could appear for users that have scaling turned on in their windows
resolution settings.
- Can now purge orphaned room
tags
- Can now use "Tag all
not tagged" when creating room tags for linked rooms in your views
- Insert Views tool now
caches the view previews locally so that it doesn't have to recompute the
visual preview for details each time you choose to see the view
previews. It will recompute them if the source model gets updated after
the cached preview was made.
- Parameter Scheduler
- Added support for
controlling the UserModifieable property of shared parameters
- New warnings if replacing
shared parameters that are different but have the same name.
- RVT/NWC Export
- Fixed issue where one
corrupted model could prevent all other models from exporting.
- Added check-all and
check-none buttons to the NWC view list
- New option to export using
internal coordinates if desired
- New link in tool to get the
Autodesk NWC Export Utility
- Element Tagger
- Property.Mirrored is now
available for use in filtering when to tag an element
- DraftXL
- New Feature: Users are
notified when opening a project if there are excel files that have been
changed since the last import/update and given the option to
review/update.
- Removed Named ranges that
are hidden system ranges from showing on the selection list.
- Fixed an issue that could
cause the process to give an error if a named range in excel had become
corrupt.
- Fixed error that could
occur when accessing a write-protected folder
2021-09-28:
- Model
Manager/Parameter Transformer
- Selecting
multiple Revit schedule for export in the Excel tab now exports each
schedule as a separate Excel or .csv file instead of combined in a single
file.
- Resolved
some rare issues when Excel would automatically format parameter values
as exponential numbers
- Added
Property.Mirrored as an available field to export and filter by
- Reduced
dependency on Microsoft Excel Interops that can be corrupted by Microsoft
updates or Autodesk installs which might require a repair of Microsoft
Excel.
- 3D
Sections
- 3D
levels and grids are now hidden by default
- Project
Setup
- Reduced
dependency on Microsoft Excel Interops that can be corrupted by Microsoft
updates or Autodesk installs which might require a repair of Microsoft
Excel.
- Parameter
Scheduler
- Significant
speed improvements when adding a large number of parameters to a project
or assigning to a large number of categories
2021-04-17:
- Project
Setup
- Reset
View Title Position now reads the user selected option of whether to
calculate position with annotations off or on.
- Users
can now select whether the Level name is concatenated at the beginning or
end of Sheet and View names when creating per level
- Added
assembly sheet parameters to be available in the parameter selection on
the manage sheets tab for inclusion on the table
- Fixed
issue that could cause some links not to show up in the link selection
box.
- Model
Manager/Parameter Transformer
- You
can now use a previous export to set the Revit element selection by using
the “Existing Template” options then clicking the button the “Use
Template Elements as Selection Set”
- The
Location.Z parameter is now editable for tags in elevation and section
views.
- Added
support for the creation of new elements from more categories including
system families using the Excel import function
- Fixed
issue that could cause some BIM360 links not to show up in the link
selection box.
- Parameter
Linker
- Added
support for some additional electrical circuiting parameters
- Added
support for linking to shared coordinate values
- Element
Tagger
- Added
support for controlling tag placement coordinates on section and
elevation views.
- Various
other minor tool enhancements
2021-04-01:
- Version
Revit 2022 released.
2020-07-29:
- RVT/NWC
Export
- New
tool
- Easily
back up your BIM360 project with all of its linked Revit models to your
local drive
- Batch
convert your model and all selected links to Navisworks NWC files
- Project
Setup
- Space
creation has new option to only create spaces from rooms of the current
phase
- Model
Manager/Parameter Transformer
- The
Excel tab now supports exporting to and importing from .csv text files
for greater compatibility with external software including Google sheets
or machines without Microsoft Office.
- The
Get elements from html report button now supports additional types of
warning reports from Revit exported reports.
- The
Excel/CSV import can create many new elements by inputting <New> as
the ElementID and providing creation data.
- The
“Family” property is now editable in the Excel export to enable renaming
families in a project.
- Updates
- Users
can now choose to skip feature updates to stop receiving update
reminders.
2020-04-14:
- Model
Manager/Parameter Transformer
- Resolved
issue where exporting large amounts of data from multiple linked models
at the same time could skip elements if they had the same ElementID as an
element in another linked model in the same export
- Project
Setup
- Resolved
issue where an Autodesk update disabled the ability to copy true north
from linked models.
- DraftXL
- Now
have the option to remove the view from the Revit project when the
DraftXL link is removed
- Can
now type directly in the history list to edit file paths, ranges to
import, Revit view name to use, and graphical override settings
- New
Excel border types supported (Total of 4: Thin, Medium, Thick/Wide, and
Double line)
- Import
options for font, lines, and scaling are saved with each import and can
be modified for each import separately as desired
- Import
remembers the settings it was originally imported with so can be updated
by another user without needing identical settings (Also allows updating
with corrected settings after importing)
- Other
minor user experience changes