Revit Link

The Meridian Enterprise application link for Autodesk Revit supports all of the Revit editions: Architecture, MEP, and Structure. The link provides:

Meridian Enterprise property editing
Title block data exchange (PowerUser clinet only)
File property data exchange, including custom properties
Automatic presentation file generation and import
Automatic vault import of files exported by Revit
Worksharing
External reference management

Note:

Resolving modified references requires read/write access. The model cannot be under change by any user. Reference resolution is not supported for models that are transmitted and workshared.

Property data exchange between Revit and Meridian Enterprise occurs by a link between Meridian Enterprise properties and Revit properties. If your drawing title blocks use properties for the title block text, that text can be synchronized with properties in a Meridian Enterprise vault. Normal Revit text cannot be linked with Meridian.

Meridian Enterprise supports a limited set of Revit properties:

ProjectIssueDate
ProjectStatus
ClientName
ProjectAddress
ProjectName
ProjectNumber

Property data exchange and worksharing is configured by a System Administrator as described in Configure Revit property synchronization and Configure Revit Worksharing.

Together with the basic integration provided by Application Integration, any file created or used by Revit can be managed in a Meridian Enterprise vault. Conversely, Revit commands that request a file can access Meridian Enterprise vaults for document selection.

Note:

The functionality provided in Revit by Application Integration is subject to the general limitations of Application Integration described in Application Integration.
Meridian uses Revit itself to update properties. Because Meridian will start and close Revit for each document, this will add a significant delay to actions that involve multiple documents, for example releasing an entire assembly. To improve performance significantly, simply launch Revit and keep it running in the background before starting the action.

If you are part of a team working on Revit projects, contact a System Administrator about configuring the project folders in the vault as shared workspaces as described in Configure Shared Workspaces.

The commands for using the Revit link features can be found in the Accruent group of the Add-Ins menu in Revit. Some commands are also available within the PowerUser application. The following topics describe each feature.