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    • What's New with Ideate BIMLink

    The latest improvements to Ideate BIMLink include features that are added to our 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022 versions. See below for a summary of some of new features in the September 2024 and June 2024 release or check out our YouTube What's New playlist. 

    September 2024 Release

    The September 2024 release of Ideate BIMLink includes some minor fixes and improvements as described in the release notes. Customers that are leveraging Depth Queuing data or detailed Space/Room data across linked files are encouraged to deploy this version which is applicable to Revit 2022-2025. Non-English Revit users who are using Ideate Automation to generated Health Check data are also encourage to deploy this version.

    June 2024 Release

    The June 2024 release of Ideate BIMLink tackles some complex data workflows and includes performance improvements and important bug fixes reported by customers. Take a moment to learn how to save more time and improve model quality with the new workflows. Lastly, we appreciate how much the Ideate Health Check process is used by customers and have made may improvements based on your feedback.

    New View Management Workflow

    The addition of View Range properties to the View data category means that you can now audit view range discrepancies across your project. Look for the new link definition called QC-Views_Range which includes the ability to edit the “Bottom Level”, “Bottom Offset, “Cut Plane Offset”, “Top Level”, “Top Offset”, “View Depth” and “View Depth Offset”. The “Cut Plane” property is available as read-only.

    New Quality Control (Q/C) Workflows for Hosted and Tagged Elements

    In this release of Ideate BIMLink hosted and tagged element data has been improved to report not only the linked file name, but also the hosting element from the linked file. This improvement is the result of several customer requests to help inform design and documentation decisions about element relationships across linked files.

    Look for the new QC-Tags-Tagged_Element and QC-MC-Host_Data link definitions in the \07 Quality Control sample folder.

    Learn more: Audit Host and Tagged Element Data

    Health Check Workflow Improvements

    Due to the popularity of the Ideate BIMLink Health Check content and related PowerBI workflows, we’ve made several improvements to performance.

    The custom Ideate property called Type Usage Count, which reports the total number of types defined in the project per each family and is used to identify unused family types, previously performed very slowly. In this release the property performance has been significantly improved. Additionally, this property has been removed as a filter on the link definition called HC-Types, further improving performance without impacting the Ideate Health Check key performance indicators (KPIs) as this data table was not used. For those using PowerBI to report on unused families, additional filtering can be done within PowerBI as desired.

    The existing link called HC-Ideate has been modified with filters to reduce the content to only output data that is needed for the key performance indicators for In-Place families and groups. This change will greatly improve peformance when exporting this data from larger Revit files.

    A new health check link called HC-Sheets is now available in the \05 Health Check folder. The sheet data from this new link is utilized, along with data from Ideate Annotate, to inform the Ideate Health Check key performance indicator (KPI) metric called “Avg Issues/Sheet” as shown below.

     

    Improvements & Fixes

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    New Custom Property — Sheet Element Count

    The new property called “Sheet Element Count” will return a count of any view, legend, schedule, or image placed on a sheet. This property can be used to assess project status or the print readiness state. Related topic: Custom Ideate Properties

    Support for Text in RFA

    Per customer request the Text data category is now available when Ideate BIMLink is used with the Family Editor (RFA). This enables text editing, specifically within Generic Annotation and Title Block family files. Look for the new link called Text-RFA as shown below.

    Fixes

    Last but not least, we spent time fixing items you so kindly told us about. Please continue to let us know when you find issues by contacting [email protected].

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