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Use a Revit File List

Multiple Revit models can be added to a task by manually picking Files. An alternate method of specifying the Revit files for an Ideate Automation task is to use a RevitFileList.txt formatted text file. It’s easy to create a RevitFileList using the AUT-Generate_Revit_File_List script.

The benefits to using a this method are:

Multiple tasks can easily reference the exact same list of files
Existing scheduled tasks can be easily modified by only changing the underlying .txt file
The manual method supports approximately 100 files (due to character limits on the task command), while the file list method does not have this limitation.

The Revit Files: variable is typically at the top of the list of Task Script Variables. Most scripts will also have a R Use File List option immediately below. that can be toggled on or off. This provides the option to reference a formatted .txt file, that lists Revit models and the relevant information about them such as file name, path, and release year. When this option is checked, the field above named Revit Files: is replaced with Revit File List: as shown in the animation below.

To create a Revit File List, start from the script named AUT-Generate_Revit_File_List shown below.

The Task Script Variables are as follows:

Revit Files: Browse to the Files section of Ideate Automation to select the models that you would like to add.
Txt File: Browse to a location of your choice to save the .txt file that will be created by this task.
R Append To File If the .txt file already exists, you have options below
- Checked will add new entries to an existing file.
- Unchecked will overwrite all contents of an existing file.

In this example below, we have browsed to select Live Cloud Models and set the following options to narrow down our selection.

The ACC Hub is selected
The Search: field is being used to narrow down the list
The release year filter is set to show only Revit 2024
We have used the CTRL+ method to select only the .rvt files that are in the Architectural scope

Click Select Files when complete. The Task Script Variables are displayed, and a network location is chosen to save the file.

Pick Next to Confirm Task Selections and choose Save and Run. Here are the results from our example.

NOTE: If you need a list that contains more than ~100 models, you can run the AUT-Generate_Revit_File_List script multiple times to build a larger .txt file. It’s recommended you create a new task each time rather than cloning the task that was last run. This way you don’t have to delete each previous file in the Revit Files: variable. Each additional time the script is run, make sure the R Append To File option is selected.

Relates to:

Export to PDF, Export to DWG, Export to NWC

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