New Revit Plug-in = MWF

To those of you out there who have been looking for a program to help you in your wall creation or even something to insert details of studs, I have found the solution.  If you’re tired of manually inserting studs into wall and even drawing the details in your sections, you‘ll want to check this company out.

StrucSoft Solutions Inc. has a plug-in for Revit called MWF.  This plug-in is a Metal Wood Framer for Revit which allows the Revit user to select walls from their Revit program and insert studs, either metal or wood.  It automatically generates stud and joist arrangements, panel numbers, sheathing, shop drawings, cut list and CNC output.  This is very suitable for designers, engineers, estimators, contractors and builders and also allows you to create custom features and functionalities per your project requirements.

Some of the features and benefits include:

• 1.       MWF wall framing module auto detects Revit walls, doors, windows and openings   including floor openings.  It also supports balloon and platform methods of construction.
• 2.       It is template and rules driven which allows the user to set up situations for window and door framing.  You will also be able to tell it whether or not a wall is load bearing which will insert bearing beams, bracing and kickers.  It inserts all studs into your project as native Revit Families.
• 3.       MWF also supports curtain wall functionality in automating the placement of deflection connectors which allows the user to generate schedules of studs and connectors.
• 4.       The user can also set the plugin to automatically generate dimensioned shop drawings as well as cut lists all the while resting assured that if something is changed in the 2d drawings the 3d project file will automatically update.
• 5.       As mentioned above the program will output to CNC for the Studmeister and Howick.

StrucSoft offers support and training through their subscription services which includes online and onsite training.

This plug-in works on Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP both 32bit and 64 bit versions.  It supports Autodesk Revit 2011 and 2012 products for now, but I’m sure that it will work on the new 2013 products.