AECOtools 1.23

Find the site on a map and set the project's location and coordinate system from it. Then bring the surroundings in: planning layers, terrain, buildings as families with a Height parameter, roads, street trees, state lots and linked aerial imagery. A sun chart, shadow diagrams and a wind rose come from the same place.

Prepares a surveyor's DWG or DXF for Revit. It shows what the cleanup will do and why, you pick the datum on a plan, and a cleaned DWG is written beside the original — your file is only read. Then it sets the model up: survey point and true north, the link, a property-line boundary with tags, and the toposolid. It also converts a survey between coordinate systems, checks against a second survey mark, and can set up a model that's already underway. It works with no model open.

Moves a model's shared coordinates into another coordinate system — PCG94 to PCG2020, MGA to a project grid — without moving the model. It also sets latitude, longitude and IFC georeferencing, checks that links agree, and gives GIS coordinates. 721 coordinate systems are built in, and Batch Tasks T15 does many models at once. Read the guide.

Colours the ground by what you need to know: slope, elevation, flood level, aspect, gradient compliance, cut and fill (the proposed ground can be a floor), sun hours, tree protection zones and drainage. Each result is kept as a picture for the sheet, an underlay under the plan and a legend, and comes back with Re-run after the model is reopened.

Lists every file and folder deleted under an ACC folder, with who deleted it and when. Filter by person, date, kind or text, tick what you want back, and restore in bulk with version history kept. Built for recovering from a Desktop Connector mass delete, where ACC's own Deleted items view can't multi-select or sort by who or when.

For ACC account admins: add one person to many projects at once, with their company, role, project admin or member, and access per product. Update them the same way, or remove them. Find their projects handles someone leaving, with an option to deactivate their account too.

Zoom to the selection, or to element ids pasted straight from a warning. When an element won't show, Visibility Detective finds what's hiding it — categories, worksets, phasing, design options, filters, view range, crop, temporary hide — and fixes it. Settings a view template controls are read from the template, named, and fixed there with Fix in template.

Build view filters from picked parameters, with nested AND/OR. Edit Existing loads any rule-based filter in the model; Update Filter changes it in place, so views and templates that use it keep their overrides. "Has Value" and "Has No Value" work for every parameter kind, including Yes/No, and numbers respect units. When a view template controls filters, the filter goes on the template.

Creates worksets for links and common categories and moves elements onto them. Elements are checked out first; anything owned by someone else is skipped and the rest still move.

Drag schedules onto sheet cards, or name them in pasted or Excel rows. A schedule can go on many sheets; schedules stack top-left of the title block and views fill the space beside them. Number clashes, duplicates and characters Revit refuses are caught before the run instead of partway through.

Padding is now the real gap at any angle — a 10 m wall at 30° used to come out metres wide. Quick Section Box uses the padding Section Box was last run with. Elements picked inside links are placed correctly, topography, links and annotation no longer blow the box up, and Toggle puts back your own box.

Select circuit rows in a panel schedule to see every device on them: load classification, apparent load, power factor, voltage and poles, where each value is controlled, and values that look wrong. Set new values — including from a target current or true power — preview their scope, and apply in one undo. Check and set breaker ratings against Revit's circuit current (AS/NZS 60898 sizes by default, or your own rules), fill in panel details, and create and export panel schedules to Excel.

Places ceiling access panels under fans, valves, dampers and spigots (close spigots share one), at the pipe end of in-ceiling FCUs, and beside fire dampers on the corridor side. Panels keep clear of lights, sprinklers, air terminals and devices, line up with the ceiling grid, and Update relocates clashing panels and finds what still needs one. Ceiling Services now opens without a selection, services move clear of each other into the nearest free spot, and rectangular rooms lay out in even rows.

Finds where ducts, pipes, cable trays and conduits pass through walls and slabs, sizes an opening for each crossing from per-discipline clearances (angled crossings included), adds a fire damper where a duct crosses a fire-rated wall, and reconciles against the openings it placed last time.

Roof spaces under a deck are their own zone, conditioned spaces get a minimum outdoor air of 0.35 L/s/m², constructions are picked to meet both scenarios' targets, and the space types table shows supply systems and level, with selection working both ways with Revit.

Checks drafting views against your template with the CAD to Drafting engine, and puts the fixes on "(Audited)" copies. Audit Review shows each copy beside its original to Accept or Reject.

Checks the selected elements against parameter rules and fixes the values — thousands of elements in seconds. Each element gets its own result, and any parameter can be left out.

Its own button now, and free: deletes text, tags, dimensions and detail items that sit entirely outside a cropped view, where they can never print. Anything grouped or pinned is kept.

Excel's conditional formatting colours now come across — cell values, text, blanks, errors, top/bottom, duplicates, formula rules and colour scales — and rules it can't show are listed. Repath Workbook points views at a moved or renamed workbook without redrawing them. Dashed, dotted, double and diagonal borders, rotated and indented text, centre across selection and formatting on part of a cell's text all come across too.

Plan images drop a soft shadow, and Rotate all images (Documentation › Plan Graphics) is saved per model. Branching species now get their family's own materials — they no longer come out grey in 3D and black in plan.

Optimise now defaults to 1024 px, quality 100 and PNG. Materials with several images keep every link after Optimise, Repath, Remap or Rename. Image slots are labelled as Revit shows them — the base image as Diffuse, Bump and Cutout correctly — and the Materials editor has a full guide behind its ? button.

• View styles: Rooms, Systems, Elements by room, and your own. Rooms show through ghosted walls, and Levels and Phases have their data again.
• Saved images go into the Revit project with the colour key, and refresh on their sheets.
• Lighter exports: Enscape assets left out, mats and louvres as boxes, one material per colour.
• In AECOtwin: isolate and hide in about 0.1 s on a 25-model project, new issues about 3 s faster, issue pins fly to the issue on one click and open on a double click, selection sets with folders and value lists, a Properties search, and clash review with true overlaps, contact lines and 40 ms clicks.

• An issue's picture can be retaken from the model view, without the selection colour, and its elements are listed by model with select buttons.
• Projects with large clash results are fast again.
• Guest access codes now arrive by email.

Licensing admins can approve the version their office runs (and roll back), name pilot users who get new releases first, and switch off ribbon panels or tools — including AECObank's Library tab — for everyone. Locked tools leave the ribbon and are greyed in Ribbon Settings.