Stabiplan Productivity Tools for Revit Launched

BODEGRAVEN, Netherlands, June 29, 2018 – Designing MEP systems gets much easier with the Stabiplan Productivity Tools for Revit. Make use of the versatile and easy-to-use tools such as connecting, rotating, and reconnecting Revit families in routing systems to streamline your design workflow. A great help for everyone working in Revit in the MEP domain.

6 improved Revit functionalities in one Productivity Tools ribbon

Whether you want to connect a fitting to a pipe, rotate entire systems in 3D without leaving your current view, or reconnect a disconnected saddle to a pipe, you can now save considerable time by eliminating the redundant steps imposed by the native Revit commands.

To save a lot of time for MEP systems such as ventilation, sprinkler, cable ducts, heating and cooling, and sanitary systems. Sometimes more than 60% of time can be saved compared to similar, repetitive tasks in Revit. You can find these 6 features under the Productivity Tools ribbon in the Stabiplan tab once you have downloaded the Productivity Tools from the MEPcontent store.

Features of the Productivity Tools in Revit

  • Connect elements
  • Connect & rotate elements
  • Connect & copy elements
  • Rotate elements around other element
  • Rotate elements in free space
  • Reconnect elements

  • Connect elements

Select the connector of the element you want to connect or a point close to it.

Continue by selecting the connector of the reference element you want to connect into or a point close to it. The element will be moved and connected to the reference element.

  • Connect & rotate elements

Just like Connect elements but also rotate the connected element around the axis of the connector of the reference element within your specified angle.

  • Connect & copy elements

Select the connector of the element you want to move or a point close to it. Continue by selecting the connector of the reference element you want to connect into or a point close to it.

The element will be moved and placed to the desired reference element. Every next click, the selected element will be copied and connected to the point indicated by you.

  • Rotate elements around other element

Rotate elements according to your preferences in just a few clicks, regardless of the view you’re in. Specify the angle and click either Clockwise or Counterclockwise buttons to rotate the elements according to your preferences.

  • Rotate elements in free space

Easily rotate elements such as single Revit families, assemblies and groups around X, Y and Z axis.

After starting the function, you can specify the desired direction and angle.

  • Reconnect elements

Select the pipe or duct where the disconnected element should be attached to.

Elements with connectors on top of each other will be connected. Also, disconnected saddles will be

reconnected to pipes or ducts.

Free Trial for the Stabiplan Productivity Tools for Revit

The Stabiplan Productivity Tools for Revit plug-in can be downloaded on store.mepcontent.com.Try this Revit App for free for one week and you can also keep using one of six functionalities after the trial. Both to get the most out of it and save tremendous time and frustrations, please  upgrade to the full paid version to make sure you can use it for all your Revit projects.

About MEPcontent and Stabiplan

MEPcontent is part of Stabiplan – a Trimble company, with 27 years of experience delivering MEP design software, data and Apps. MEPcontent, the largest BIM library for MEP engineers, offers up-to-date BIM content and productivity enhancing BIM applications for the MEP industry. MEPcontent is constantly expanding the number of Apps and App functionalities to offer MEP engineers and other MEP specialists the ability to work faster on specific jobs to be done.

About Stabiplan

Stabiplan, a Trimble company, is market leader since 1990 for Revit and CAD based design software in the MEP industry.  Their product, Stabicad, is multi-platform and customized to local needs and requirements of MEP engineers. They serve 10,000 Stabicad users and have offices in Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Romania.

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