RTV Aconex Uploader – Check for Updates standard

Checking for updates RTV Tools are constantly adding new features and enhancements to our products to cater for end user requests and functionality therefore it is a good idea to regularly check for any product updates that may be available. To do so just launch Aconex Uploader, go to the Check for Updates button and click Check for Updates. Aconex Uploader will then check with the RTV Tools website if a newer build number of your product is available and then display a dialog box similar to below advising if your product is up to date or if there is an update available for you to download.

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RTV Drawing Manager Issue Stamps standard

The intention behind using Issue Stamps is to ‘Stamp’ your drawing sheets electronically with the chosen stamp in the same way that many companies would do manually by stamping printed hard copies of drawings as they are issued out of the office. Utilising the Issue Stamps within Drawing Manager and the corresponding parameter in your Revit Titleblock family means you can do away with the old manual stamps and the time involved to manually stamp each printed hard copy of drawings. You can modify the Issue Stamp list as required by adding additional stamps or deleting any unwanted stamps from the list. To configure your Issue stamp list go to The Project Settings tab of the Ribbon > click Configuration ...

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RTV Xporter Pro Export Drafting Views standard

The process of doing this natively with Revit is a laborious exercise should you want to create individual files for each detail in that you would need to manually save out each drafting view as an individual project file to your library. With Xporter Pro you can search for existing 2D Drafting Views in your project and then automate the process of exporting those Drafting Views out to a designated output folder as individual project files, including your Project Parameters if desired. Firstly select the required Drafting Views to be exported from the Revit Views Tab of the Xporter main interface and then click the Export button from the ribbon. The top half of the Dialog box relates to the ...

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RTV Xporter Printing Views and Sheets standard

In addition to Exporting sheets to various formats using RTV Xporter you can also print your sheets or views to your normal office printers – in fact you can even send the same set of drawings to two separate printers at the same time. For example you could send one set of drawings as a print job to say a large format A1 or A0 printer, and then send the same set of drawings as another print job to say a second small format printer for an A3 set simultaneously. You can control your Printer setup for each device respectively as you normally would for example Printer 1 could be your large format printer set for Black & white or ...

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RTV SPM Import Parameters from Revit Families in Folder or Selected standard

In Addition to Importing Parameters from an existing Shared Parameter File you can also Import any ‘shared parameters’ directly from a specified Revit Family directory or a selected Revit Family File into Shared Parameter Manager. Click the Import From button on the Shared Parameters Tab of the ribbon Select the Import Revit Families in folder or selected option as shown below and then browse to the Shared Parameter File required to import the Parameters from. If you want to import Shared parameters contained in multiple files from a specified Folder location then you can simply define the required folder directory as per below example and include for any Sub-folders if applicable. Alternatively instead of importing from multiples files in the ...

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RTV Reporter Refresh All Tabs standard

The first time you go into Reporter you will need to define the Revit Categories to form the tabs in the Data Grid. If you then Exit out of Reporter and go back into Reporter you will most likely still see the same Category Tabs in the data grid but the will not be populated as shown in below example. To Refresh the data grid for the ALL tabs and not just the current category tab then click the Refresh All Tabs button from the ribbon which will then extract the categories data again from the current Revit Project file.

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RTV Drawing Manager Revision Stamps standard

This tab contains a ‘List’ of all the various Revision Stamps within Drawing manager that you may wish to use with your Revit project which of course like all other lists you can modify as required. You can choose the required revision behaviour in terms of the clouds or revision tags themselves when synchronizing back to Revit as these simply mimic the options available with Revit by default. In order for Drawing manager to synchronize with your Revision Tag family in your project you can either use the RTV family provided free or map the parameter names from your own Revision Tag family into Drawing Manager instead (remember these are case sensitive). To configure your Revision stamp list go to ...

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RTV Xporter Pro DGN Export standard

You can use this export option when needing to generate Microstation .dgn files from your Revit Project. Firstly select the required Revit Sheets or Revit Views to be exported from the Xporter Pro main interface and then click the Export button from the ribbon. The top half of the Dialog box contain the specific settings and options for the resulting DGN files as shown by the below image. Export Level Options – from the drop down there are three options from which to choose. Export Category properties BYLEVEL and overrides BYELEMENT, Export all properties BYLEVEL, do not export overrides, Export all properties BYLEVEL, create new levels for overrides. Define levels from – select from the drop down one of the ...

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RTV Xporter Sheet Revisions standard

With Xporter In addition to simply Exporting or Printing Revit Sheets or views a reasonably new feature now means you can now also manage the Revisions for your Revit Sheets. Xporter works with the built in native Revit Revisioning system providing a more user friendly interface that will instantly synchronize with your Revit project on the fly. To do so click the Revisions button from the Xporter Ribbon. The top section of the Revisions dialog box simply mimics the native Revision options within Revit natively where you can Add or Remove revision sequences, set the numbering system and Revision details etc.  Clicking on the Revision numbering icon will pop up another dialog box again where you can define the revision ...

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RTV Xporter Selection Filters standard

For large Revit projects containing numerous Sheets and Views it can be a time consuming exercise sifting through them in order to find and select the required data especially if you need to repeat this on a regular basis. With Xporter there are two different filtering mechanisms available to assist in Searching for specific content in the data grid – using the Find and Search Panel or by using Auto Row Filtering. Find and Search Panel By default the Find and Search panel is turned off in Xporter. To enable the Find and Search panel click the blue magnifying glass icon in the top right corner of the Xporter window as shown below. Once enabled you will see the Find ...

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