Tecomat - Custom Revit Add-in

• 90%+ workflow optimization
• Automated wall-to-brick conversion
• Reduced production costs

Tecomat is a Brazilian engineering firm based in Recife that specializes in rationalized masonry and blockwork design for construction projects. After analyzing its internal blockwork modeling process in Revit, Tecomat found that placing individual bricks and fitting them into walls by hand was inefficient and prone to error, and it wanted a solution that would keep its team working inside Revit rather than switching to a separate platform.

Tecomat worked with DiRoots to build a custom Revit add-in that automatically converts generic wall elements into individual, properly fitted blocks, so its designers could keep using their existing Revit models and standards while eliminating the need to manually place each brick during the blockwork modeling process.

As a firm focused on rationalized masonry and blockwork design, Tecomat found that manually converting walls into individual bricks inside Revit was one of its most time-consuming and error-prone tasks, and it was slowing down project delivery while adding to production costs.

Tecomat wanted to remain competitive by optimizing its internal design process, but needed a solution that would let its team keep working inside Revit with their existing models rather than adopting a separate blockwork platform.

The firm also needed the automation to handle real wall geometry reliably, so that converting walls to individual blocks would not introduce new errors into its construction documentation.

Before DiRoots built the custom add-in, Tecomat's designers modeled blockwork in Revit by placing each brick manually, one at a time, and fitting it into the wall geometry using Revit's native, out-of-the-box tools.

Because a typical rationalized masonry wall contains a large number of individual blocks, this manual, brick-by-brick approach was extremely time-consuming and repetitive, and it was also prone to human error when bricks needed to be resized, cut, or fitted around openings and corners.

This native workflow limited how quickly Tecomat could turn around detailed blockwork models for its clients and added to its production costs.

The custom Revit add-in DiRoots built for Tecomat automatically converts generic Revit walls into individual, properly fitted blocks, replacing a process that previously required designers to place each brick by hand. According to DiRoots, the add-in delivered roughly 90% workflow optimization on this blockwork modeling process compared to Tecomat's traditional, manual approach in Revit.

That time saved lets Tecomat's designers spend less time on repetitive brick placement and more time on higher-value design work, while also reducing the production costs associated with manually detailing every masonry wall and helping the firm deliver blockwork models more quickly and consistently for its clients.