BIM Coordinator for AutoCAD Civil 3D / Revit

The nice guys at the Autodesk Labs have come up with another interesting app. This one is called the Bim Coordinator for Civil 3d and Revit. It is a technology preview and free!
This utility helps to coordinate the UCS / origin points between a Civil 3D drawing and Revit. The reference point between these two softwares is automatically coordinated. Very nice. 
The current version is release for 2012 Civil 3D and Revit flavours. You can download and try it here. 

Autodesk Exchange Apps for Revit

Here is another fantastic development from Autodesk. This is touted as one of the new things for Revit 2013. However, it has been available for AutoCAD in the 2012 version itself.
Anyway, Similar to the appstore, this website has some small utilities that aid Revit. Some of them are free. It is worth while to check once in a while. Here is the link:
http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/2013/en/Home/Index
If you are a developed you can visit here to read the guidelines to publish your own app! 

Autodesk Revit 2013

Autodesk has released their 2013 version of software last week. Interesting point to note is that Autodesk has released a new software - Autodesk Revit 2013 - which includes ALL the funtionality of Revit Architecture, Revit MEP and Revit Structure. 
Revit is also available as stand alone product per field (Architecture, MEP, etc.) 

The pricing for all these software very twisted. As per the link above, all the standalone Revit versions cost around $5,500. However, by paying another $1000, one can get all flavours of AutoCAD + all flavours of Revit + 3DS Max Design. 
The combo version that includes all flavours of revit will be very useful for BIM managers while trouble shooting. Well done  Autodesk! (I guess, this has been a long time request from the users!)

Copy cells from Spreadsheet to Revit Schedule 2013

We are very happy to announce that our popular utility "Copy Spreadsheet to Revit" has been released for Autodesk Revit 2013. This version works only for Revit versions of 2013, but for all flavors of revit, vis a vis, Architecture, MEP, Structure and Suite. This version works in both the 32 bit and 64 bit version of Windows. 
The trial version can be downloaded from here but it copies only a maximum of (3 x 3) 9 cells at a time. You can buy the full version (which does not have any restrictions on the number of copied cells) here. 

Etransmit for Revit

Autodesk had an in-built nice command called 'Etransmit' for AutoCAD. Using that command was the only correct method to transmit / send files to consultants and clients.
It might be heartening to know that Autodesk is working on a similar command / utility for Revit too. Their etransmit technology preview can be viewed / downloaded here.
However, it works ONLY with Revit 2012 versions. You need to have an autodesk user id (free) to download the utility.
The best part is that it collects all the DWG / RVT files that are linked into the Revit file. It does away with all the error messages we used to get when we COPY the Revit Central File using Windows explorer, etc. You can download the preview for free until June 30th.