RushForth Tools for
Revit: Release Notes
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
2020-02-08:
- Project Setup
- 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)
- Element Tagger
- Added two more optional parameter
filters (total of 4) for choosing which elements to tag
- Parameter Transformer
- 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:
- Parameter Transformer
- 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.
- Transform tab
- 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.
- Project setup
- 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