duHast pyRevit Extension¶

A pyRevit toolbar extension for Revit, providing automation tools for BIM workflows across family management, export, view management, model maintenance, and more.

Toolbar Panels¶

Panels and button groups are listed in ribbon order, matching the extension’s bundle layouts. Names are the labels shown in Revit.

About¶

Reference links. Neither button touches the model.

	Button Group	Description
	About	Open the extension licence on GitHub, or the Icons8 site the icons come from

Cloud¶

Tools for working with cloud-hosted Revit models.

	Button Group	Description
	GUIDS	Retrieve cloud project and model GUIDs for the model and all its links, for Revit Batch Processor task files

Grids And Levels¶

Tools for controlling grid bubble and level header visibility, and 2D/3D extent behaviour, in the active view.

	Button Group	Description
	Grids	Show or toggle grid bubbles at either end, switch grids to 2D, extend grids to the view crop, propagate grid setup to other plan views
	Levels	Show or toggle level headers at either end, switch levels to 2D

View Templates¶

Tools for propagating and transferring view template settings, filters and colour schemes.

	Button Group	Description
	Modify	Propagate filter and category overrides from a source view template to many others; delete filters from templates
	Import Export	Export and import view template overrides and view filters as JSON, and colour fill scheme values as CSV

Views¶

Tools for managing Revit schedules on sheets and in views.

	Button Group	Description
	Schedules	Manage column widths; report and fix schedule segment overlaps on sheets; export, extract and import Room: Number filter values

Purge Unused¶

Tools to remove unused elements from the model. Every tool asks what to remove before deleting anything.

	Button Group	Description
	Purge	Purge unused line styles, fill patterns, line patterns, shared parameters, filters, legends, schedules, view templates and unplaced views

Warnings¶

Tools for resolving and locating common Revit warnings on rooms, areas and annotation.

	Button Group	Description
	Solve Warnings	Fix room tags outside rooms, duplicate marks, and overlapping area or room separation lines
	Highlight Warnings	Report area and room separation lines carrying warnings, and colour-highlight them in the active view

Families¶

Tools for loading, saving, renaming, swapping and reporting on Revit families and type catalogue files.

	Button Group	Description
	Reload	Reload families from a library folder, with match-status filtering
	Rename	Rename loaded families and types, or rename `.rfa` files in a library folder, from a CSV
	IO	Load families from a folder into the project, or save loaded families out to a folder
	CatalogueFiles	Export and clean type catalogue files; strip a family back to a single catalogue placeholder type
	Force Update	Force Revit to detect a family as changed when source files have been overwritten
	Change Category	Reassign the open family to a different Revit category, preserving subcategories
	Reports	Report on and compare family libraries and projects, via XML part atom exports
	SwapFamilies	Replace family instances with a different type, by CSV directive folder, selection or picking
	At The Library	Open the AtTheLibrary tool for managing shared type catalogue parameters

Ceilings¶

	Button Group	Description
	Ceilings By Room	Create a ceiling matching the boundary of each selected room

Walls¶

Tools that relate walls and facade openings back to the rooms they bound.

	Button Group	Description
	Walls By Room	Write the room number onto the walls bounding each selected room
	Facade Opening To Room	Report external wall and window opening areas per room to CSV

PushIt¶

Tools for managing mock rooms — room-like families that carry room data — and the data pushed into them.

	Button Group	Description
	Push It!	Open the PushIt application for loading room data and pushing it into mock rooms
	Get A Room!	Build mock room families from filled regions; set the family output directory
	Swap Width And Depth	Swap the width and depth values on picked mock rooms and rotate them 90 degrees
	Stats	Report mock room counts by family, creator and owner; flag IDs duplicated across design sets
	Place Revit Rooms	Create native Revit rooms at the locations of mock rooms, read from this model or a link
	Verify Push It Area	Measure mock rooms with temporary Revit rooms and write the area back onto them

Export¶

Tools for exporting sheets, checking exports, and syncing document data.

	Button Group	Description
	PDF and DWG	Export sheets to PDF and/or DWG with configurable naming rules and print sets
	Compare	Check the sheets in a Revit schedule against the PDF files in a folder
	docManager	Sync sheets and revisions from the model to a Document Manager database; configure document numbering

Data¶

Scripts for exporting model data to file for reporting and audit purposes.

	Button Group	Description
	Collectors	Export rooms, spaces, sheets, ceilings, floors, doors, levels and placed items to JSON — from the active model and its Revit links

RoomMate¶

Integration with a local RoomMate server.

	Button Group	Description
	Export	Push room and door data from the model and its links to a local RoomMate server

Getting Started¶

Install pyRevit if not already installed.
Copy the extension folder to your pyRevit extensions directory, or add it via pyRevit settings.
Restart Revit — the duHast tab will appear in the ribbon.
Refer to the individual docs linked above for prerequisites and configuration before first use.

Before you run a tool¶

Three things decide whether a button will work at all. Each doc repeats the ones that apply to it, but they are worth knowing up front.

Some tools only run on a family open in the Family Editor. They exit with “This is not a family document.” if run from a project: Change Category, Force Update and all three Catalogue Files tools.

Some tools store their settings in the Revit model and refuse to start until a Settings button has been run on that model: PDF/DWG Export, docManager and Get A Room!. Settings are held in an extensible schema, so they travel with the file but do not travel between files.

Some tools open a .NET window loaded from the extension’s bin folder at run time. If that folder is missing or incomplete the button fails immediately with a message about the bin directory. This applies to Push It!, At The Library, Reload, PDF/DWG Export and docManager.

A few tools are also driven by constants edited in the extension’s lib folder rather than by a dialog — see Facade Opening To Room, Ceilings By Room and Reports.

Requirements¶

Revit 2025 or later — the extension declares min_revit_ver: 2025, with engines configured for 2025 and 2026.
pyRevit (latest stable version recommended).
duHast Python library — bundled in the extension under lib/duHast.
The extension’s bin folder, for the tools that open a .NET window.

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