Smart Connections

Easy Detailed Modeling in Your Revit® Projects

Smart Connections enables easy detailed modeling in your Revit projects.

Insert grout tubes, cast-in steel plates, anchor bolts, lifting bolts, lifting anchors, lifting eyes, footing connectors, cuts, and reveals on the surface of any host element, be it a beam, column, wall, foundation, floor, Part, or Generic model.

• Rule-based distribution of details and voids on any element surfaces.
• Simple insertion of point-based and line-based details.
• Host-element data can be read and used to modify detail families automatically.
• Easily rotate/flip details in configuration window to get desired result.
• Check whether host element has enough solid body for detail to be inserted.
• Insert details according to gravity point.
• Insert details at intersection points of other Revit elements.
• Quick modification and updating of inserted details.
• Automatically insert details based on a defined configuration name.
• Smart Assemblies, used for workshop drawings, recognizes changes made by Smart Connections.

Line- and point-based elements (voids or solids) on any element face according to defined rules.

Use easy-to-set-up rules to define number of elements and point of insertion.

Insert, update, or modify elements that have already been inserted.

Insert elements by available solid depth.

Insert elements by available solid depth.

Make your detail families smart – use parameters taken from your host elements so that you can automatically adjust the size of your detail. In the example below, you can see that the cut length was modified according to the host element’s (i.e. the wall’s) thickness automatically.

Adjust Layout by Searching for other Elements and automatically insert selected Revit families if conditions are met. It could be used for wall joints, nearby connections, intersection with other elements, and more.

Ex. Different joints between walls…

…are automatically recognized and inserted:

Use several details configurations on same element and use Multi Detail-Manager to Modify, Update, Delete selected configuration.

Insert, update, or delete gravity point.