Ideate BIMLink 2012 is the Autodesk® Revit® add-on that lets you access and edit Building Information Modeling (BIM) data quickly and easily to save you hours—even weeks—of valuable time. With Ideate BIMLink, you can pull data from a Revit file into user-friendly Microsoft® Excel® and push Excel data into Revit with equal ease. Ideate BIMLink was developed specifically for the Revit community by Ideate, Inc. and complements Revit® Architecture, Revit® MEP and Revit® Structure.

With Ideate BIMLink, you gain access to data that Revit hides. You can use this data externally with cost estimating, takeoff, or analysis tools. You can standardize measurements, naming conventions and parameter values for quality control purposes. And you can externalize your Revit data for editing by non-Revit users, so the project team and non-Revit using information contributors each have appropriate access to BIM data while model integrity is protected.