Are you considering building in-house tools for Revit automation? You may want to think twice.

Building out Revit macros or setting up automation in Dynamo may seem like a cost-effective solution for many companies, but it often comes with a host of challenges that will hinder productivity.

Take a look at the issues that come with building in-house Revit automation:

Labor Costs: Building and maintaining in-house tools requires dedicated resources, including skilled developers and BIM experts. Not all companies have the luxury of allocating these resources, leading to overworked teams and suboptimal results. If you have skilled BIM designers working on in-house tools scripts, it will take away from their time spent on modeling.

Revit API is Complicated: The Revit API is complex, requiring a deep understanding of Revit’s data structures and how different elements and properties interact. Teams often find themselves spending a significant amount of time just learning how to navigate the API, which can delay the development process for in-house built automation.

Maintenance Requirements: Scripts and macros are often dependent on specific versions of Revit. With every single minor Revit update, you run the risk of your scripts becoming obsolete. If you don’t have a dedicated team available to create and maintain in-house scripts it will not be worth the effort to build them in the first place.

Quality Assurance Requirements: In-house tools are prone to errors, which can lead to inaccurate models or even crashes. Ensuring high-quality, error-free scripts requires rigorous testing, which adds to the development time and cost. When your in-house tools fail your team will suffer from delayed project timelines.

Why EVOLVE is the Better Solution

To help you save on time spent building in-house tools and scripts - EVOLVE boasts over 70 features to help automate your BIM process.

The EVOLVE Mechanical and EVOLVE Electrical Revit add-ins contain many features, automation capabilities, and content libraries that are specifically designed to make MEP BIM workflows easier than ever before.

Building in-house tools can take months, even years!

You can implement EVOLVE within hours. With dozens of training resources and certifications available for users, you can be an EVOLVE expert in a matter of days!

Designers get more time back in their day when they spend less time building in-house tools scripts or workflows.

When you bring EVOLVE to the table, you're not just saving on labor costs. It's like having a team of experts working behind the scenes, ensuring your BIM team has everything they need to complete projects on time!

Keeping up with every new Revit update is tough.

EVOLVE is professionally developed, supported, and tested on an ongoing basis. Unlike in-house tools, you never have to worry about building updates for new versions of Revit - we take care of it for you!

EVOLVE is a lightweight automation solution. We understand that add-ins with lots of data can drag down the performance of Revit resulting in project timelines slowing down. We ensure that added automation doesn’t bog down your process.

Not only does EVOLVE provide features that automate Revit tasks, but it also comes preloaded with dozens of useful RFAs and content that make BIM-ing easy!

In-house tools can be great when your team needs to customize tasks for project-specific goals, but for everything else there is EVOLVE.

Reach out to our team today to learn more.