Naviate Accelerate: Revit Workflow and Project Planning Solution

Naviate Accelerate is a specialized solution designed to sit on top of your chosen Autodesk Revit discipline. It provides a highly personalized workflow and comprehensive project planning solution for you and your design team.

Equipped with advanced automation, data management, and sheet production tools, Naviate Accelerate streamliners day-to-day Revit operations. It also features the Naviate Assistant, an integrated AI feature that accesses Naviate help documents to provide suggestions for Revit-related workflows, helping users discover new methods and gain a deeper understanding of the platform's features.

Highlighted Core Features

Color Elements

This tool allows you to color any category based on type or instance parameter values. Users can override element graphics directly in the view with colors, as well as show and select elements within the properties. You can create multiple filters based on your precise selection criteria, and these filters will override your current view template. It can also convert settings directly to filters or view templates.

Filter Elements

Filter any object from the entire project based on type or instance parameter values. You can easily find and select elements in the active view or across the complete project by category, family, type, or parameter value. Filters can be combined and saved within the project for later reuse.

Manage Parameters

An efficient tool for managing parameters within and between projects. It lets you view and edit instance or type parameter values in a clean table/spreadsheet format. You can select any category to access all available parameters, filter out non-editable parameters, view and edit schedules, sort your lists, and copy/paste values. Key functionalities include Merge Parameters, Merge Parameters Configuration, Combine Parameters, and Batch Combine Parameters.

Project Cleanup

Skip the tedious manual work of clearing out your Revit model. Project Cleanup allows you to configure exactly how you want the cleanup to be handled to minimize overall file size by removing specific elements like views, schedules, and links or imports.

Publish

Plot drawings and export files to DWG, IFC, NWC, PDF, and RVT in a single operation. You can configure multiple setup options regarding which sheets or views to publish, where they should be saved, and how they should be named. These settings can be easily reused the next time you need to publish the exact same views or sheets.

Renumber Elements

Automatically write a sequential number string on specified element types. Elements can be renumbered by picking them one by one, selecting objects, or drawing a spline. The tool supports prefixes and suffixes, auto-swaps numbers for objects requiring unique numbering, and allows elements to inherit numbers from a selected object.

Detailed Directory of Features

Parameter & Data Management

• Advanced Parameter Manager: View all shared parameters across your current Revit model, your shared parameter file, and any linked Revit models.

• Combine Parameter Values: Execute saved settings from Combine Parameters in batches. Apply changes to multiple parameters in a specified order with a single click and generate a report on how many elements were updated.

• Create Parameters: Quickly generate the most commonly required IFC parameters. For more advanced setups, the Property Sets feature allows you to customize common property sets.

• Edit Parameter Values: Edit instance or type parameters on multiple elements simultaneously using a spreadsheet user interface. Includes an instance-count checkbox, configurable parameter columns, info labels, and schedule creation.

• Export Import: Export project data to Excel and re-import it back into Revit.

• Find and Replace: Find and replace common instance parameter values of selected Revit elements.

• Match Parameter Values: Copy parameter values from a selected element and apply them to additional elements.

• Match Parameter Values from Link: Copy instance or type parameter values from an original element in a linked project directly to selected elements in the host project.

• Parameter Configuration: Define and show parameters for selected updaters with settings stored directly per project.

• Parameter Transfer: Transfer shared parameters that exist in families within a Revit schedule to other families in that same schedule.

• Sum Parameters: View a quick summary of all common parameters that can be calculated, alongside their values or sum values, within selected elements.

• Transfer Calculated Values: Take a calculated value from a schedule and copy it to a designated parameter on the element.

• Transfer Parameter Values: Merge and import information from another project (such as a Revit file built from an IFC file or family type information) and write it to the same parameter in your current project.

• Write Parameters & Write All Setup: Set up parameter transfers for 3D Zones and write parameters directly to selected elements or elements contained inside a 3D Zone.

Sheet, View, & Revision Management

• Align Views: Align views on sheets using coordinates or by matching the viewport location of an existing view on a sheet.

• Apply Crop Region: Apply a crop region from one view over to other designated views.

• Apply Revision on Sheets: View, add, or remove revisions across multiple sheets simultaneously, create new revisions, and edit revision parameters. This replaces manual entry or drawing revision clouds and simplifies removing revisions added by mistake.

• Create Dependent Views & Duplicate Dependent Views: Generate multiple views based on scope boxes on selected plan views, or create duplicates of existing dependent views.

• Create Empty Sheets: Create placeholder or empty sheets using an existing sheet as a template.

• Create Multiple Sheets: Select an existing sheet as a template and generate multiple new sheets using three main methods: select views, select levels, or specify the total number of drawings.

• Create Sheet Views from Plan View: Create sheets for selected views using an existing sheet as your template.

• Edit Sheet Parameters: View and edit parameters across multiple sheets while aligning views on sheets.

• Manage Sheets & Views / Sheet Manager & Publish: A suite of tools containing eight distinct functions for efficient sheet and view management, alongside comprehensive multi-format publishing options.

• Place Views on Sheets: Quickly place existing views onto existing sheets.

• Print Set Manager: Easily add or remove views/sheets from specific print sets, or add, duplicate, and delete entire print sets.

• Quick Dependent Views: Swiftly create dependent views for each scope box in the active plan view or from preselected scope boxes, filled regions, or 3D zones.

• Quick PDF: Export your pre-selected views or sheets directly to PDF format.

• Type Drawings: Select a designated sheet template to use for creating new sheets.

• Update Sheet Format Parameters: Copy values from any configurable parameter on a title block to a parameter on the sheet. This is useful when you have a title block family with different types for each sheet size and want to display the sheet size in a sheet list.

• Update Sheet Revision Parameters: Automatically update sheet revision parameters.

• Update Sheet Scale Parameters: Overcomes built-in Revit scale parameter limitations by writing text strings into two selected sheet parameters—one listing all full scales and one listing half scales. This information can be utilized in Title Blocks and Sheet Lists.

• View Filter Manager: Manage View Filters across your views and view templates.

Modeling & Productivity Tools

• Adjust Section Box: Quickly adjust the section box within 3D views.

• Align to Path & Align to Path in Link: Distribute elements along designated paths in either the host project or within a linked file.

• Create 3D Zones: Generate a 3D Zone utilizing a scope box, filled region, or floor.

• Create Table: Copy the print region of an Excel worksheet and convert it into Revit as either a static schedule or a drafting view composed of Revit lines, text, and filled regions.

• Dimension Grids: Automatically add a grid string at the top and right sides of a view, dimensioning all visible grids.

• Imprint: Link Word, Excel, or PDF documents directly onto any Revit view or sheet by generating an image of the document.

• Move to Nearest: Move selected elements to adjacent surfaces within a 3D view.

• Norkart Import: Import highly detailed maps directly into Revit projects to serve as a comprehensive base for design work.

• Provision for Voids: Opens a dedicated ribbon tab with tools for managing requests and openings between different design disciplines.

• Rectangular Array: Copy selected elements in a structured rectangular pattern.

• Relative Elevations: Quickly place North/South/East/West (N/S/E/W) elevations in the center of each selected room. If a room is rotated at an angle and doesn’t face true north, it automatically creates A/B/C/D elevations.

• Scope Box Sync: Import and synchronize scope boxes between separate projects.

• Section from Element: Instantly create a properly sized and oriented section view by selecting an element within a Plan or RCP view.

• Space Room Array: Copy selected elements in a rectangular pattern constrained within a specific space or room.

• Style Sweep - Manage Object Styles: Inspect style usage and efficiently manage imported Object Styles within your Revit projects to facilitate informed decision-making.

• Synchronize Yes/No Parameters: Connects instance Yes/No parameters driving title block graphics visibility with Sheet properties. This allows you to manage graphics and title blocks directly from the more accessible sheet properties or sheet list schedules, and transfer those changes back to the title block automatically.

• Unhide Elements: Unhide all elements in a view that were previously hidden by instance.

Collaboration, IFC, & BIM Standards

• Align IFC: Aligns IFC files within the project environment.

• BCF Manager: Communicate within a project using BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) files. This allows IFC-enabled software to raise questions, coordinate clash detection results, or reference specific building elements without needing to export IFC files, by creating issues directly in Revit.

• CAD Tracker: Find, track, and manage linked and imported CAD files.

• Classification Tools: Classify building elements using a selected standard.

  • Classification Standard: Choose the standard to use and assign classification codes. The tool automatically creates the correct parameters for the selected standard.

  • Class by Family: Sets the specific IFC Class used by families.

  • Classify by Category: Assign classification codes to building elements of a certain category one by one in a view.

  • Classify by Selection: Assign a classification code to any arbitrary selection of elements.

• Global IFC Class & Layer Standard: Define global IFC classes and set the layer standards used during IFC exports.

• IFC Management: Access general tools to manage IFC parameters and files.

• Import Schedules: Import protected worksheets into Revit, provided they were originally exported from the exact same Revit file.

• VIP Export: Export your Revit project directly into the VIP Energy program for energy calculations.

• Warning Handler: Review all project warnings using a modeless dialogue box.

Content & Family Management

• Add Type Image: Easily add Type Images to families within the project for scheduling purposes.

• Cloud Browser & Cloud Content Manager: Search, filter, and insert families or open project files from the Naviate Content Cloud. Filter content sources by region/country using free text or revision dates for an enhanced user experience.

• Configure: Set up and configure exactly which updates to execute during specific project events.

• Family Browser: Locate and insert families from your local disk or directly from the project.

• New Project: Kickstart a new Naviate project utilizing templates pulled directly from the Cloud.

• Re-save Families: Automate the process of re-saving families stored on disk to the current Revit software version.

• Transfer Settings: Transfer your custom configurations and settings for Naviate tools from one project to another.

• Update Now: Manually run all updaters that are configured as "Manual" within the Configure settings.

Annotation & Tagging

• Tag Settings: Define exactly how elements will be tagged. Tags can be placed individually, by single/multiple selection, or view-by-view.

• Tag All: Simultaneously tag multiple elements across multiple views based on your default Tag Settings.

• Tag Select: Tag multiple elements in the main model at the same time with no dialog interaction required.

• Tag Select Linked Elements: Performs the same automated tagging process as Tag Select, but executes it on elements residing within linked models.

• Type Symbols: Create and seamlessly update project legends.

Community and Feedback Loop

Naviate Accelerate is designed "for users, by users." It includes an Ideation Portal where team members can submit new feature requests, comment on workflows, and vote on community ideas. Additionally, users have access to the Naviate Blog for deep dives into workflows, and Symetri e-learning platforms via company accounts for comprehensive instructional material.