Streamlining Revit workflows with Atvero's automation

For designers and information managers, managing a large volume and variety of deliverables within Revit is a vital part of their commonplace tasks. Maintaining project quality while keeping up with deadlines can be challenging with large workloads; however, this challenge can be tackled with process automation. The Atvero add-in in Revit is designed to provide efficient design workflows from authoring to delivery, with automated processes that help Revit users save time, eliminate traditional errors, and ensure project quality.

Standardized file naming

As digital sharing of information is becoming a common practice in BIM projects, it is essential to maintain the use of structured, consistent, and comprehensible naming conventions. File names that are rich in structured metadata not only allows for simple discovery and filtering of digital assets, but also for accurate and quality-assured information. For BIM Level 2, ISO 19650 is the mandatory standard to manage information over the life cycle of any project.

One of key aspects of any BIM authoring tools, including Revit, is storing metadata using parameters, such as text, number, area, volume, and more. To follow ISO 19650 standard, designers will then have to manually rename sheets by assigning the appropriate data in each parameter after exporting sheets from Revit. To speed up this process and remove human errors that can affect project quality, the Atvero add-in in Revit automatically extracts data from parameters to generate record names that follow ISO 19650 convention. Atvero will also examine the validity of newly generated record names to ensure that these records are unique in the system.

Simple publishing

By default, Revit can publish models and sheets in multiple CAD formats, such as PDF, DWG, or DWF. What we learnt from our customers is that every time they need to publish a revision in a certain format, they would have to manually adjust the appropriate tools and export settings for that format. This process needs to be repeated multiple times if designers want to publish a revision in different formats.

The Atvero add-in provides a time-efficient way to publish revisions in Revit. Sheet validation can be automated with Atvero intelligently assigning the best print settings by sheet size to selected drawings. These drawings can then be published to multiple file formats in one click.

In addition, after export, it is important that sheets are renamed accurately according to ISO 19650 or any custom naming scheme. This renaming process, however, is usually done manually by design authors, which is laborious and prone to errors. With the Atvero add-in, the published files will automatically follow the defined naming scheme, saving time and ensuring standardization.

Conclusion

With the Revit-Atvero workflow integration, we look to enhance productivity and quality assurance, providing our customers more streamlined processes to deliver successful projects and a more satisfactory overall experience with our product.

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