pyRevit for Revit: Tools, Scripts & BIM Automation

Explore the selection panel in PyRevit and learn how its items enable selecting elements efficiently. Streamline your selection workflow in Revit projects.

Master the pick tool in PyRevit to quickly select doors, rooms, and walls, apply filters, use select similar, and begin specifying parameters to streamline BIM workflows.

Learn how to pick detail items with pyRevit by selecting 2D elements with a simple click-drag in a view, while 3D elements are not supported.

Learn to pick model elements in PyRevit by selecting 3d objects, filtering 2d elements with pick detail item, or choosing a category like furniture to adjust dimensions and scale.

Isolate categories in Revit with PyRevit to hide all but walls, doors, floors, and model elements, enabling faster workflow by using category search and quick navigation.

Deselect grouped elements in Revit with PyRevit by a simple click-drag, then use the select menu to discard grouped elements, clearing all grouped selections quickly.

Pin base elements, levels, and axes in Revit to lock linked CAD, IFC, or Revit files with PyRevit. Use discard pinned elements to quickly deselect all pins.

Identify hosted elements via linked models in PyRevit by selecting only families placed in the linked file, enabling targeted edits and parameter changes for mechanical and electrical work.

Learn to use keep mirrored in PyRevit to automate mirroring of walls, doors, and windows in Revit workflows, copy mirrored elements, and identify exactly which elements were mirrored for edits.

Use pyRevit to keep painted elements, quickly select and isolate them, and modify painted areas, speeding up complex projects and enabling teamwork.

Use add tagged elements to automatically select all items with tags and their related elements, streamlining documentation by distinguishing tagged from untagged components.

Automate the selection of elements without dimensions in Revit using PyRevit. Specify a category such as walls and quickly highlight all items lacking dimensions for efficient documenting.

Identify untagged elements with PyRevit by finding and selecting entities without tags, filtering by category such as doors, and isolating them to locate untagged items across the project.

Explore how to invert selection in PyRevit by isolating doors, selecting untagged elements, and reversing the selection to target tagged items.

Create clickable selection lists in pyrevit to view a tab of linked IDs, zoom in on elements, and navigate between IDs and elements for large projects and collaboration with Navisworks.

Learn how to create revisions, apply revision clouds to specific revisions in PyRevit, customize revision style with thickness, color, and dash line, and use filters to select revisions.

Select all clouds with the same comments in PyRevit to pick all matching items, isolate them, then reset and move on to the next item.

Use PyRevit to select one door to view its type and category, then automatically select all elements of the same family across the project.

Master selecting all objects of the selected type in PyRevit to quickly gather similar types, distinct from category or family-based selections.

Select all text notes in PyRevit to quickly gather text-based annotations created with the plugin, enabling mass editing or exporting of details and layers on walls, floors, and finishes.

Select vertical or horizontal reveals with PyRevit to automatically highlight all parts where wall reveals are used, and identify where reveals have been applied to aid project checks.

Learn to select element types and their similar elements, then use select group and subgroup elements to isolate and reset group elements in a project with PyRevit.

Compare two PyRevit options to select group elements: one selects both groups and subgroups. The other selects only the group elements, and both are useful for Revit and BIM workflows.

Select sub walls of stacked walls to manipulate each part separately; simply click the wall and choose sub walls, or use tab highlighting to target bottom or top parts.

Explore memory functions in PyRevit, including MAppend, MWrite, and MRead, and learn to add these tools to a quick toolbar while using a plugin to select and manage model elements.

Demonstrate pro MAppend and MRead techniques in PyRevit to manage IDs saved in AppData via PIM and Notepad Plus. Copy, save, and reuse IDs across Revit viewports.

Copy and paste view states in pyRevit to duplicate visibility, graphics, crop regions, zoom, and filters across views; manage memory presets and save configurations as pym files.

Use the color splasher to color elements by parameters like base constraint and simulation elements, apply gradient colors, and create or reset legends for walls and structural framing.

Master quick parameter analysis in Revit using the item sum total: select elements, choose a parameter like length or area, and view per-type totals without creating schedules.

Learn to automate calculating the average area of similar rooms in Revit using PyRevit, by selecting a room and reviewing results in a dedicated tab with zoom options.

Find the range of roof slopes in your model with pyRevit, set the boundary underlays and an overhang of 1200 millimeters, then quickly identify every slope across roofs and walls.

Use the get centroid tool to locate the center point of an element using perpendicular model lines, marking the center for best placement, demonstrated on a wall.

Learn to locate and manage model in place elements with the get in place families tool, isolating modeling places in the viewport to analyze projects quickly and point them out.

Learn to get parking count in current view to count parking lots, identify parkings not set or misassigned, and verify exact counts across the project.

Learn to optimize your Revit models with PyRevit by analyzing family complexity using the triangles count per family type. Identify high-triangle families to simplify and manage project size efficiently.

Count lines of the selected style in your project using the inspect tool to see how often the line style is used, with examples of 365 and 177 usages.

Find all attached constraints in a Revit project by using the inspect list, view constraint data and IDs, and locate them in the viewport with the BIM Integrate Lab plugin.

Locate identical room numbers across a project with this tool, revealing all rooms with similar numbers in large BIM models and enabling quick zoom-to-select for inspection.

Use Find Monitored Revit Links to locate all elements created from a monitor in linked files, distinguish monitored items from the sketched elements, and zoom-select them for collaboration.

Identify referenced elements to reveal all annotative and model elements set based on a selected wall. Tag door and window tags and use reveal constraint to inspect linked elements.

Learn to find reference views by selected elevation tag in Revit, see which references exist for each elevation, and copy those views into the project viewport for plans like restrooms.

Discover how to find referencing sheets for a view using the find referencing sheets tool, and compare it to the default open sheets option in newer Revit versions.

Use Revit's find sheets showing selected elements tool to quickly identify and open every sheet where the chosen element appears, aiding documentation and reporting.

Identify all views containing the selected element across the project, not just sheets, by generating a quick report from the project browser and opening each view directly.

Use the lines per view counter to find, check, and analyze all detail lines across views, including two dimensional and 3d view lines, for project analysis.

Select a level to view a complete list of its elements, revealing counts and types such as walls, curtain panels, rooms, doors, windows, floors, and other items for project analysis.

Display and analyze family sizes with a dynamic list by size, name, category, and creator; identify the largest to smallest heavy families and edit to simplify your project.

Discover the enhanced match in PyRevit to copy and apply surface and cut properties from a source element to multiple targets, including colors, transparency, and dimension overrides, using match options.

Explore how PyRevit's match paint feature quickly replicates a chosen color across elements or areas, replacing manual painting with a fast, area-based application for interior design workflows.

Use match properties in PyRevit to copy selected parameters from a source element to target elements, such as top offset, comment, and mark, with type or instance options.

Compare properties in PyRevit to analyze similarities and differences between selected elements or views. Select a source and target to reveal levels, crop regions, view ranges, and names for analysis.

Create professional hatches in Revit using PyRevit's Make Pattern by building a primary sketch with detail lines in a drafting view, then define the pattern name, type, scale, and color.

Create a brick hatch by drawing a rectangle, build a pattern with Make Pattern in PyRevit, and apply it to a wall material, then adjust the scale.

Design custom and unique hatches in Revit by using make pattern to create 2d patterns, apply to walls and fill regions, and export patterns with PyRevit.

Use pyRevit’s batch import files to import multiple PAT patterns into Revit, choosing drafting views or models and applying patterns via the manage tab Fill Patterns.

Explore PyRevit’s overkill tool to remove overlapped items in 2D drawings by configuring tolerance, line type, color, and layers, and choose all lines, detail lines, model lines, or room separators.

Learn to flip elements in pyrevit to reverse their direction, using flip face, flip hand, flip wall on centerline, and flip location line options, all automated by the plugin.