Utils Tools

What it does

Round trip exports element parameters to a spreadsheet, lets somebody outside Revit edit them, and writes the changes back onto the same elements. Sheet Sync links Excel into Revit with its formatting intact and updates it in place, so anything placed on a sheet stays placed.

Reload Links re-points Revit links at a folder you choose, and SyncSaver synchronises your workshared model while you're away from the desk. Building materials themselves is a job for the Materials Editor.

Highlights

• Export parameters to Excel for a consultant to edit, then import the changes back.
• Link a spreadsheet range into Revit keeping borders, merged cells and colours.
• Update a linked spreadsheet view in place — the viewport on the sheet survives.
• Reload every Revit link from a new folder by file name.
• SyncSaver syncs after you go idle, with a countdown you can cancel by moving the mouse.
• It won't sync again unless you've actually changed something since the last one.
• When several people sync, a queue tells you when it's your turn.
• Reload links, DWGs, images, families and IFC in one pass.

Before you start

• Round trip matches the spreadsheet back to elements by id — don't delete the identifying columns.
• Reload Links matches by file name, so renamed files won't be found.
• SyncSaver only syncs when you've actually changed something since the last one.

Quick start

1. Open the tool from the Utils panel.
2. Point it at the spreadsheet, the folder or the library it needs.
3. Review what it reports — each tool summarises what it changed.

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