RushForth Tools for Revit: Release Notes

2021-04-17:

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.

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.

Added support for controlling tag placement coordinates on section and elevation views.

2021-04-01:

2020-07-29:

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

Space creation has new option to only create spaces from rooms of the current phase

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.

Users can now choose to skip feature updates to stop receiving update reminders.

2020-04-14:

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

Resolved issue where an Autodesk update disabled the ability to copy true north from linked models.

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)

2020-02-08:

The Viewport Type column of the Manage Views tab is now exportable to Excel
Revit 2020.1 and later issue with not reporting project coordinates in the Coordinate Review tool is now fixed
Insert Views/Details now accepts BIM360 Paths for template files and rvt files when accessing through Autodesk Desktop Connector (Revit 2019 and later)

Added two more optional parameter filters (total of 4) for choosing which elements to tag

Transform tab can now automatically create new types when creating elements based on the source types
Clash Detection

Clash category selection dialog now has a linked model selection box and indicates the number of selected categories
Can now clash a category against itself and see only real clashes and not have elements clashing with themselves

2019-11-27:

New "Find Clashing Elements…" allows you to do clash detection on your custom filtered selection (such as finding MEP penetrations in structural framing or fire rated walls) and display a 3D view of those clashes
Can now export, modify, and import the location coordinates for legends, panel schedules, and schedules that are on sheets
Can now create and edit element circuiting by editing their panel, circuit number, circuit rating, and circuit load name in Excel.

For example, you can select multiple uncircuited elements and specify the desired panel and circuit numbers to have those circuits created.

When creating non-hosted element using ray-casted locations, the elements can now rotate with the host walls the way the face-based elements do.

Now supports multiple regional number formats when exporting viewport coordinates
New column in manage views tab allows you to change the viewport type of all selected viewports
Viewport coordinate placement now automatically accounts for whether a view has annotations locked by a view template and correctly reports the viewport coordinates without annotations