Smart Connections features

Adds flexibility in adapting connections to fit the desired design. Make adjustments without having to recreate the entire connection, saving time and effort.

Families are automatically positioned to align with adjacent connections

Accurately generates the connection you set.

Detailing framed buildings

Achieve high-quality framing models at the required LOD, adding all necessary connections to lightweight steel/timber framed structures.

Effortlessly position connections and various components for structural framing elements

With its seamless integration into your workflow, this feature streamlines the entire process, ensuring precision and accuracy.

Allows you to effortlessly position connectors for sheathing or paneling elements

Automates the process, saving you valuable time and effort

Adds structural connections to light-gauge steel structures

Increase the speed and accuracy of adding angles, bolts and other connection components to LGS framing structures

Automatically distribute smart, complex connections for CLT wall, floor and roof panels per your predefined rules

Extremely effective, time-saving software inserts hundreds of elements – connection joists, dovetails, half-lap joins, etc. – into your project with a few clicks. Easily follow project changes and quickly modify and update the inserted details, ensuring fast and accurate modeling of highly detailed projects.

Simultaneously places connections on multiple posts, beams, trusses, braces, etc. based on the configurations you set

Inserts hundreds of elements – mortise & tenon joins, lap joins, dovetail joins, etc. – into your project with a few clicks. You can follow project changes and quickly modify and update inserted details, ensuring fast and accurate modeling of highly detailed projects.

Predefine how connectors are to be placed on various elements, and reuse your configuration down the line

Streamline your workflow, increase productivity, and maintain a high level of accuracy throughout projects.

Detailing of ventilated facades & curtain walls

Create façade covering systems in Revit by automating insertion of fixings, fasteners, and brackets.

Distribute structural connections on ventilated façade frames

Increase the LOD of ventilated façade models by quickly and accurately adding structural connections using flexible, pre-defined configurations.

Add fasteners to ventilated façade insulation

Save time and eliminate human error by automating insulation and adding fasteners via predefined rules.

Automate gasket placement on curtain walls

Improve modeling workflow speed by automatically adding gaskets to curtain wall frames.

Add transom holders to curtain wall mullions

Model curtain wall transom holders more efficiently by automatically adding components via configurations.

Create weep holes on curtain wall frame elements

By using predefined automation rules, you can reduce the time spent on modeling weep holes in curtain wall frame elements.

Add fixings to curtain wall frames

Eliminate human error and save time by automating the placement of fixings on curtain wall frames.

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Configuration settings basics | Tutorial 2

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