CAD/BIM Tips & Tricks
How to Get Excel Data Into Revit
21 November 2024
What do you do when you have non-BIM data — such as an Excel™ spreadsheet — that you want to import and link into your Revit® project? Can it be done easily and with flawless formatting? Analysis shows that people search online for this popular topic — with the emphasis on Excel — in a zillion different ways. Did you search for one of these to arrive here?
Discover the most frictionless way to handle imports of Excel, Word and large PDFs.
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They’re all similar and since all roads lead to Rome, it doesn’t really matter which one you used. You’re here now and we’ll help you discover the most frictionless way to handle imports of Excel, Word™ and large PDFs into Revit.
Excel Imports to Revit: The Major Obstacle
Here’s the problem: The fact that Revit lacks a text editor makes the import process unnecessarily time-consuming and frustrating when you simply need to import non-BIM data into your Revit projects and get it formatted. Virtually every project has spreadsheets that, come hell or high water, must be brought in and correctly formatted to maintain your Revit standards. Getting it all perfect is, well, “tedious” is a polite word. (Sometimes you also need to bring in Word docs or large PDFs — and they can be a pain too — but we’ll get to that.)
Ideal Excel Imports
Your accurate and up-to-date data is right there, instantly accessible in the project, and, of course, it’s beautifully formatted.
Ideally, you want to import your Excel (or Word or PDF) data into Revit without giving yourself any new gray hairs. You might not even care how it’s done, only that it’s done. Plug-in, plug-out, thingamajig or whatsisbob, you don’t care. Just insert that dang Excel data into my Revit project and let’s go already. But you also need to make sure all the details are just right — and we all know the devil is in the details.
How about a tool that takes care of the details for you? What boxes would the perfect tool need to check?
Easy to use?
Flawless formatting?
A link to the source file?
Automatic updates?
Oh, and if it’s not too much to ask, can we also please get it all done in one simple step?
You got it.
Your Dream Import Tool Is Here
If you want all of the above — neatly wrapped up in one easy-to-use package — you want Microsoft Office Importer™, which gives you the choice of bringing in your data as a static element or dynamic link. Want your import to come in as native Revit schedule data? Prefer it as text notes and lines in a detail group? Either way, consider it done. So, how does Microsoft Office Importer hold up against the checked boxes above?
If your Excel imports to Revit don’t look just like your original Excel spreadsheet, talk to us.
Easy to use. If you’ve ever added data to an Excel spreadsheet, you’ve got this. It’s that easy.
Formatting is identical to the original document, plus your paste wraps perfectly to easily fit inside your border.
You can link your import to the source file.
That link to the source file means you can optionally save time with automatic updates.
What About Word Docs and PDFs?
Fast, frictionless imports? That’s Microsoft Office Importer.
Microsoft Office Importer for Revit does all of the above for you in literally one easy step and it’ll also bring in your Word docs with the same finesse. When it comes to PDFs, instead of importing one page at a time, you can optionally bring in a large, multipage PDF all at once, as a selected page range, or a single page. With Microsoft Office Importer you get huge time-savings all around.
Friction-Free Imports: Excel to Revit
“It can’t be that easy!” We hear that a lot, but it genuinely is that easy. Simply copy the data in Excel or Word, hop on over to Revit and import the data with Microsoft Office Importer. Boom, you’re done.
With no manual formatting required, you eliminate potential human error. Your teams can confidently work — in Revit — with the most recent and correct data. Notes, specs, manufacturer details and any other non-BIM data that is critical to your project’s success is no longer siloed in Excel or Word. Your accurate and up-to-date data is right there, instantly accessible in the project, and, of course, it’s beautifully formatted.
Guess who’s leaving the office on time for a change? Thanks, Microsoft Office Importer!
If you’re thinking, “I gotta get me some of that,” we understand. Visit AxiomInt.com to discover more, request a free trial or chat with us online. If you have questions, call a CAD/BIM Consultant at 727-442-7774.
Fast, frictionless imports? That’s Microsoft Office Importer.
