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  • NEW and Modify Functionality

    • NEW and Modify Functionality

    Does your data management solution for Revit include the ability to create elements and types? Ideate BIMLink has got you covered whether it’s creating new sheets, materials, line styles, object styles, parameters, worksets, revisions or even new types. You can learn how to create elements and types with Ideate BIMLink per this Help Topic: Create New Revit Elements with Ideate BIMLink

    For supported elements and types, the workflow is to use a link defintion that has the required fields and then type “NEW” in the Id column.

    Additionally, as of the June 2025 release, this functionality has been further refined so that when an element in the Excel file already exists within the Revit project file or Revit family file, the data import will not fail for that row of data. Instead, it will proceed to review the specific element properties and make any changes needed.

    In order to successfully permit both the creation of the new elements and the modification of existing elements, it is critical that a unique alternate data key is set. In the example below, the Name column (in blue) is set as the alternate data key and the key has been removed from the Id column. Learn more: Alternate Data Key Method

    Create new and modify existing elements with Ideate BIMLink

    In the example above (#1), the NEW value is placed in the Id column for Level elements. Additionally, the value for the Elevation of the Level 2 element has been modified to 5000. When this data is imported into a Revit poject via Ideate BIMLink (#2), the result is three new level elements and a modification to Level 1. Even if “NEW” was included for Level 0 and Level 1 the results would be the same.

    When used in conjunction with Ideate Automation, these methods make it possible to maintain a single source of truth, in Excel for corporate or project-specific BIM standards. Related topic: Batch Import Data From Excel to Revit

     

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