The June 2025 release of Ideate BIMLink includes
This release of Ideate BIMLink includes support for many long-requested improvements to managing Revit material data. Whether you need to improve the outcomes of your rendered images or accuracy of thermal or structural analytics, the new ability to assign the correct Appearance, Physical and/or Thermal Assets within your Materials will be a game changer. Look for edits to the existing link definition: Project_Stds-Materials. Make sure you review your template files and your project files with this link definition to improve your standards and outcomes.
Additionally, we are excited to include a new data category to support Revit Material Takeoffs. There are two new link definitions that can be used to view and understand the impact of this data.
Lastly, per your requests, we have added the ability to create new materials. Look for this link: Material-Create_NEW.
Prior to this release if you wanted to create new types and also modify existing type data, you would need two separate imports. Now, Ideate BIMLink has been improved to allow for properties to be updated on an existing element/type when the Id columns says “NEW”. This new functionality, when utilized with the Alternate Data Key Method enables Excel data to be used as the source of truth for certain kinds of data such as Materials, Parameters, Model Text, custom family types, and more. Learn more about this workflow in the Create and Manage Standards topic.
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Ideate BIMLink now support Czech, Italian, and Polish languages. This in addition to existing support for Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. When Autodesk Revit is launched in any of those languages, Ideate BIMLink will automatically display the corresponding version within the user interface and content.
Those using Ideate Automation release 3.4 in conjunction with this version of Ideate BIMLink will benefit from modifications made to support the importing of data via BIMLink. Refer to What’s New in Ideate Automation for more details.
By default, data values are exported to Excel from Ideate BIMlink using the “General” format option within Excel. This options allows Excel to auto-detect and display the format. This works very well except when the goal is to control the trailing zero values that might be required, particularly for properties like Key Number where text values with decimals are interpreted by Excel to be number values. For example, if a Key Number is 08.10, that value may display as 8.1 when formatted within Excel. In this version of Ideate BIMLink you can select any of the specified properties within the link definition, and right-click to choose “Export as Text”. This will force the Excel cell to be formatted with the Text format. NOTE: this option will prevent cell values with formulas from displaying the result of the formula.
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].