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We need a lot to have a full- direct integrated tool between Revit and excel,
which enable us to export an excel sheet from Revit , update the schedule and the exported parameter values in excel , import again in Revit , and by default all updated data that has been modified in excel , to be updated in Revit too after import.
For any firm after a certain point they see the value in bulk editing and manipulating data outside of a revit schedule. Not to mention there is so much data that is available but not exposed to be scheduled. Just look at the market for XLS export/import add ins.
BIMLink from Ideate
CTC's Spreadsheet Link
CASE tools
I'm sure there are others.
But, since you write the code you could go further. I'm in the midst of re-configuring everything for our company and bringing it up to current standards. And consistency is our main goal. Renaming line patterns? not possible without click, type, click one at a time.
Bulk edit fill patterns? Nope
Bulk edit line styles? Nope, subcategory and barely exposed to api. You can create them, sure. Rename?
tl;dr
Build in function to expose database to CSV/XLS export. Open up the gates to everything. Is it dangerous? Yeah, folks will do dumb things. But you've always allowed us to explode DWG imports, so is this really any worse? Will people love you for it? definitely.
Is it possible to allow the user to access to all parameter from schedules?
One of the biggest issue is related to levels and offset: sometime the level is called Reference Level, sometimes only level, sometimes we have the host and for electrical elements Schedule Level. Even with Dynamo is difficult to find a way to automate this task. Each family has different names, each family has how parameters.
It will be very useful to unify all the common parameter and give the possibility to access to both type and instance parameters from the schedule.
Finally I can't understand why after 10 years, still I've to buy a plugin to be able to export a schedule to Excel or I've to use Dynamo.
I'd be curious about how seamless the transfer from Excel to Revit would be. Can you clarify what you mean by seamless? What are you trying to accomplish or bring from Excel to Revit?
When we were preparing Ideate Sticky for Revit 2017, due to the text changes, we had to be careful so that we could map the Excel fonts into Revit so that folks would not have issues with the Excel fonts and tables looking different from the Revit fonts. Here is a good blog post on the fonts. We wanted this to be as 'seamless' as possible: http://ideatesoftware.com/blog/revit-2017-text-size-changes
Thanks Schlueter , I know that this feature can be done by a "Dynamo Package" and also can be done by "Ideate software" , but it will be much better if it is done done natively by Revit, without external resources.
We love the Ideate solution and think it is hands-down Best in Class, CTC also has a similar add-in. In case you have not noticed, Autodesk rarely adds features to the platform that one of their partners has already solved with an add-in. So it might be nice to have it integrated but I would bet the farm that it will never happen. All the really cool stuff happening in the Revit space is not driven by Autodesk.
This is an issue with Revit and not just add-ins. I agree but unfortunately, Autodesk is a publicly traded company with a very strong profit motive so I doubt that will change any time soon. The software is simply too costly and Autodesk is very close to a monopoly.
Take a look at this Flux App which is specifically about scheduling to and from Revit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vADkkJqdxQk The example uses Google Sheets but the process is exactly the same with Microsoft Excel
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but the only way to use our schedules in Excel to "do some math" is to export a txt file that excel not always is able to import? ( for example numbers are not seen as numbers but as text because of international differences of decimal separation).
IT would be so handy to link the results of a schedule to an excel sheet or just have a direct exportation button (no txt please! - just xls)
