Search. Filter. Finish.

10,000-plus elements were never so manageable...

The Ideate Explorer for Revit tool gives you an easy, intuitive and profound way to search, quantify and select elements in a Revit model.

When having the ability to search, filter and tie up inter-relationships between 10,000+ building elements can make or break your workday, you need one simple, powerful Revit add-on to help you explore, quantify and manage your Revit building information model. Ideate Explorer for Revit® from Ideate, Inc. empowers you to do just that.

What Ideate Explorer for Revit users say…

"I have been using the heck out of the Ideate Explorer for Revit and love it! Thanks to the development team at Ideate for coming up with it."
—Kevin Mulvaney, PKA Architects

"We appreciate the Ideate Explorer for Revit and use it extensively to manage our Revit models. The search tool is so critical to our processes, that we have actually created internal training documents featuring the Ideate Explorer for Revit."
—Dan Dankert, Mead & Hunt

"Thank You Ideate for creating Explorer for Revit. I was tasked with deleting the revision clouds, revision deltas and associated text from a drawing file containing more than 100 sheets. In AutoCAD, opening 100 files and using layer to isolate this task would take about six hours. In Revit, without Ideate Explorer, the task would take about four hours. With Ideate Explorer and Revit, I was able to complete the task in 45 minutes."
—Ty Russell, CH2M HILL

"The 'Show' function is great: now I can actually find… lost DWG instances… Being able to search for all items, including text inputs, is fantastic."
—Jason Barish, Noll and Tam

How It Works

The Ideate Explorer for Revit tool gives you an easy, intuitive and profound way to search, quantify and select elements in a Revit BIM. This indispensible Revit add-on was developed specifically for the Revit community and works to compliment the features in Revit® Architecture, Revit® Structure, and Revit® MEP. Features include:

• Export to Excel
  Without fanfare or lost time, you can export search results directly to a Microsoft® Excel 2003 .xls or Excel 2007 .xlsx spreadsheet file. Generate a quick report or data for presentation.
  
• MEP Enhancement
  Autodesk Revit MEP 2011 has taken leaps ahead of previous revisions, and so has Ideate Explorer. Building elements can now be sorted and viewed by MEP zone and space. Details list now includes Zone and Space properties, and the Instance List view include a Zone and Space column. In addition, building element types are now displayed in searches: Cable Trays, Cable Tray Fittings and Conduit Fittings.
• Deep Drill-down Capability
  You can document, quantify, view and sort building elements by category, family, type or level, room and even individual instance. Examine and change your current selection, inspect the current view or the entire project and even build a complex selection from scratch. Zoom to individual building elements and visually explore your model. 10,000+ elements suddenly become completely manageable.
  
• Project Auditing
  You can detect the inconsistent use of families with the click of your mouse. As you audit your projects, you can easily implement your preferred graphical or CAD standards. Non-uniformities of style turn into beautiful consistencies with only a few keystrokes.
  You can also find hidden elements such as DWGs, isolate them, return to Revit to delete them and then confirm the deletion with Explorer. Think of the hours, uncertainty and file space saved.
• Super-intuitive Interface
  You explore in familiar ways—the way you find tunes in your music collection, locate hard drive files and search via Google. You can find, isolate and view tens of thousands of elements—the way you want. Then narrow your search results fast thanks to a powerful text search engine.

Free Trial

Download a free, fully functional 30 day trial version of the Ideate Explorer for Revit software tool.
At any time you may purchase a license for the Ideate Explorer for Revit application from our online store to upgrade your trial version to a fully licensed version.

Ideate Explorer 2011 System Requirements
Requires Revit Architecture 2011, Revit Structure 2011 or Revit MEP 2011.

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