Use Ideate Explorer to Quickly Find and Select the Elements You Need

  • Ideate Explorer will catalog or "index" all the elements within your project, including elements not found within the Project Browser and elements that are invisible.
  • Information can be organized by Category, Workset, Room, Space or Level. Use the text-based search to dig into Family Name, Type Name, Part Materials, or any Text string for even more complex searching.
  • Use Ideate Explorer to open views where elements are visible
  • Use Ideate Explorer to select all or some elements based on your criteria then exit and use Revit to make the changes you need such as: delete elements, swap elements for different types, edit element properties
Learn how to use Ideate Explorer with our Tutorial Videos.

Feature Matrix

Ideate Explorer Autodesk Revit
Find and Select all Similar types
Visible in this View check check
Visible in this Project check check
On Levels check
Within these Rooms, Zones, or Spaces check
Create Complex Selection Sets
Modify a Selection Set by Removing Objects by Type check
Modify a Selection Set by Removing Objects by Category check check
Find All DWG or DGNs -even those pesky hidden ones check
Multi-select by Type, Level, Workset, etc. check
Multi-select across Categories check
Select Grids, Keynotes, Revisions, Work Planes, etc. check
Audit Projects and Templates
Use Text Filters to Find and Replace Annotation check
Use Text Filters to Find Types and Families check
Browse or Export Keynotes check
Browse or Export Revision Instances check
Quickly Scan the Number of
Per Category Within the Current View or Project check
Per Family Within the Current View or Project check
Per Type Within the Current View or Project check

Features

Super Fast Project Auditing

Worksharing — an asked-for feature! You can detect the inconsistent use of families and even worksets with the click of your mouse. As you audit your projects, you can easily implement your preferred graphical or BIM standards. Non-uniformities of style turn into beautiful consistencies with only a few keystrokes. Wrongly categorized groups of data are no longer an issue.

You can also find hidden elements such as DWGs, isolate them, return to Revit to delete them and then confirm the deletion with Ideate Explorer for Revit. A 250 MB RVT can be audited in less than one minute. Think of the hours, uncertainty and file space saved.

Deep Drill-down Capability

You can document, quantify, view and sort building elements by category, workset, family, type or level, room, space, zone 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. 100,000+ elements suddenly become completely manageable.

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.

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.

Go Beyond the Project Browser

Find elements excluded from the project browser including Dimensions, Grids, Keynotes, Lines, Reference Planes, Revisions Clouds, and Text.