Bonus Tools
Win64, EnglishKiwiCodes
Bonus Tools contains 150+ apps and can help any practice save time. Download, test, and experience time-saving tools that allow you to focus on the important tasks at hand.
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General Usage Instructions
Simple time-saving tools that can help any practice.
The two primary tools found in this API are the Window Watcher and Family Tracker:
- The Window Watcher allows you to either block and/or report on the activation of Autodesk® Revit® Windows as part of a Company Standard.
- The Family Tracker lists all Loaded Families and/or Groups in the Project and the date of the insert and the date of reload.
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Installation/Uninstallation
The installer that ran when you downloaded this app/plug-in from Autodesk App Store will start installing the app/plug-in. OR, simply double-click the downloaded installer to install the app/plugin.
You may need to restart the Autodesk product to activate the app/plug-in.
To uninstall this plug-in, exit the Autodesk product if you are currently running it, simply rerun the installer, and select the "Uninstall" button. OR, click Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features (Windows 10/11) and uninstall as you would any other application from your system.
Additional Information
For full support and help visit https://bonustools.kiwicodes.com/
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Contact
Company Name: KiwiCodes
Company URL: http://www.kiwicodes.com/index.php
Support Contact: chris@kiwicodes.com
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KiwiCodes
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Version History
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20.24.09.17 |
Check Out the Complete Collection: 150+ Tools at Your Fingertips! Head over to our website (https://bonustools.kiwicodes.com/public/tutorials/000-Bonus-Tools-Home) to explore a comprehensive list of all 150+ apps. These tools have been extensively used by myself and colleagues to automate repetitive button-click tasks. Why spend hours clicking when a tool can do it for you? Settings can now be pulled from a central cloud location to make sharing and distribution of Ribbon Settings easy, REVIT 2019 - 2024 updated: using new Excel interaction, no more need for Excel Interop errors, All Tools - Update - Each tool remembers its last settings, applies to, Textboxes, Checkboxes, Dropdowns, Radio Buttons. Excludes Tables., 149 Process Standards - Update - Added flexibility, Text types, Widthfactor, and help created. Revit 2025 Support! We're thrilled to announce that after some extra time, Revit 2025 support is finally here! There's much more to discover in this update! |
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20.24.08.20 |
Check Out the Complete Collection: 150+ Tools at Your Fingertips! Head over to our website (https://bonustools.kiwicodes.com/public/tutorials/000-Bonus-Tools-Home) to explore a comprehensive list of all 150+ apps. These tools have been extensively used by myself and colleagues to automate repetitive button-click tasks. Why spend hours clicking when a tool can do it for you? Revit 2025 Support! We're thrilled to announce that after some extra time, Revit 2025 support is finally here! Excel Export Tools: Upgraded to resolve issues caused by a recent Microsoft update. Topography Tools: Now fully compatible with Toposolid. Complete Rebuild: We've removed unnecessary bloat and significantly increased speed. 34 Shared Parameters: Update includes adding Dimensions, Rebar Set, Set, and Visualization. Licensing: Adjusted to use a roaming profile only, as requested by Autodesk. This ensures that the license file isn't overwritten during updates. Settings Files: Now stored in the roaming profile. Background Improvements: We've laid the groundwork for enhanced settings and statistics, which can be viewed here. Tool Updates: 38 View Renamer: Now works with all Parameter names. 39 Align Sheets: Added help text and pre-populates the match text column with the View Name. You can modify the text as needed. 49 Room/Area Point: Improved feedback for each item in the output dialogue. There's much more to discover in this update! |
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20.23.06.05 |
Licensing - ability to store license info under Roaming Profile due to permission issues with ProgramData. 70 Folder Creator - Fix - Added better feedback when importing an excel file. 91 Advanced Sheet Duplication - Fix - Revit 2021. Views were not duplicating due to a new feature added to handle dependant views. 91 Advanced Sheet Duplication - Fix - Better feedback if a View fails to copy as a result of View Elevations (Levels) differing too much. 91 Advanced Sheet Duplication - Fix - Suppression of all Revit Warnings during the copy process, to speed up the process. 91 Advanced Sheet Duplication - Fix - Feedback placed on Output Dialogue, including all suppressed Revit Warnings during the copy process. 91 Advanced Sheet Duplication - Fix - Closing opened Views as a by-product of the Revit copy process. |
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20.23.04.04 |
Revit 2024 enabled Removal of old Network and Standalone licensing New - 149 Process Standards - A tool to align and manage Family standards within a Project or across a Company Library New - 150 Clean C4R Files - Clears C4R files from user's profile. New - 151 Reset & Sync - This tool automates 4 steps. Open the default View, Close hidden, Save and Sync. New - 152 Reset, Sync & Compact - This tool automates 5 steps. Open the default View, Close hidden, Save, Sync and Compact. New - 153 Workset Mover - Move selected Elements to the active Workset. Connect to a Shortcut Key for fast New - 154 Set Active WorkSet - Sets the Active Workset based on the selected Elements Workset. Connect to a Shortcut Key for fast activation. New - 155 Isolate By WorkSet - Isolates Elements based on the selected Elements Workset. Connect to a Shortcut Key for fast activation. New 156 Get File Details - Get the current models file path and C4R details. C4R files use GUIDs instead of file names, this tool help locate them. New - 157 View Renamer - Rename Views to a Standards. The tool uses a series of fields to build up the view name. |
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20.23.02.16 |
Fix - Licensing - Fix to old standalone license registration. Fix - Tools that have a progress bar - will now close on failure. |
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20.23.01.25 |
Fix - Licensing - Fix to old standalone license registration. Fix - Tools that have a progress bar - will now close on failure. |
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20.23.01.16 |
Fix - Licensing - Removed unwanted message: Something's not right. Please try again. Could not find subscription. Addition - Licensing - New cloud licensing 7 day off line grace period. Addition - Licensing - New button on ribbon (first in the row) to provide feedback if something has gone wrong when licensing. New help page created, this will be updated with time: license failed to register. Updates - Licensing - Additional checks and feedback. Updates - Log files - Additional information gathered for debugging, Revit version, BT version, username 05 About - Update - scroll end user license agreement to the top. |
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20.22.11.30 |
New licensing method introduced. There is now just one type of license, which pulls form a Cloud license server. 31 Renumber SOP’s - Fix - Handling close of processing modal if no family was loaded. 33 Excel Tools - Export - Fix - Checks if the file contains a Schedule. 33 Excel Tools - Import Rooms - Fix - Close Processing dialog if Cancel is clicked. 63 Element Overrides - Fix - Are Graphics Overrides Allowed check added. 70 Folder Creator - Fix - Closing progress bar on failure correctly. 85 Line Patterns - Fix - Are Graphics Overrides Allowed check added. 91 Advanced Sheet Duplication - Fix - Enabling for other versions of Revit. 114 Fill Patterns - Fix - Are Graphics Overrides Allowed check added. 115 Search Tools - Known issue - Selecting a tool is not running the tool. 118 Design Options List - Fix - Are Graphics Overrides Allowed check added. 124 Update key plan - Fix - Check if the file contains sheets. 138 Family Standards Advanced - Removed. 142 KiwiCodes Audit - Fix - Providing feedback is setup is not correct. All forms adjusted to add scroll bars if content expands outside the container. Standalone license - validation update. |
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20.22.07-18 |
General fix to remove correct an issue with Forge Parameters. Additional feedback added for license issues. |
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20.22.06.15 |
91 Sheet duplication - Fix - Duplicates section fixed General fix to remove message about parameters. |
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20.22.03.28 |
Revit 2023 enabled. General - Added additional error handling, which can be enabled on Ribbon Settings. 72 Workset Creator - Fix - Loading both xml and excel |
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20.21.07.14 |
Updated Certificates 102 Revision Cloud - Update - Allow export of all Revisions. 145 Layer Properties - Fix - Report on Layers correctly. |
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20.21.03.25 |
Revit 2022 enabled. Fix - Standalone license registration. 031 Renumber SPO's - Fix - Processing dialog will not display if there are no elements to renumber. 052 Renumber Categories - Fix - Export to excel button. 123 Sub-Category Map - Update - Minor formatting enhancements. 126 Family Info - Update - Removing built-in Dimensions. 127 Style Output - Update - Removing built-in Dimensions. 128 Relationships - Fix - Displays a message if not Element is initially selected. 138 Family Standard Advanced - Fix - Message to display in Revit 2019 on that it is no longer available. 146 Keynote Usage - Update - Reconnected the tool. |
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20.20.11.11 |
Fix - Standalone license registration. 031 Renumber SPO's - Fix - Processing dialog will not display if there are no elements to renumber. 052 Renumber Categories - Fix - Export to excel button. 123 Sub-Category Map - Update - Minor formatting enhancements. 126 Family Info - Update - Removing built-in Dimensions. 127 Style Output - Update - Removing built-in Dimensions. 128 Relationships - Fix - Displays a message if not Element is initially selected. 138 Family Standard Advanced - Fix - Message to display in Revit 2019 on that it is no longer available. 146 Keynote Usage - Update - Reconnected the tool. |
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20.20.010.18 |
* 06 Ribbon Settings - Addition - Added option to copy Journal files to a nominated folder. Sub folder of your name will be create followed by dated folder. * 71 RDS tool - Update - Naming sections fixed. * 142 KiwiCodes Audit - Update - Additional checks added, and examples of additional graphics added. Note: the method used for the families has changed. |
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20.20.04.22 |
All - Update - Export to Excel button now opens Excel. 28 Reference Plane List - Update - Includes Subcategory within the table. 89 Open Views - Update - Now includes Sheets 53 Show Warnings - Update - Skips adding parameters to Elements within a Group. 105 Tag All - Update - Fix to leader check box. 130 Review Warnings - Update - Skips adding parameters to Elements within a Group. 134 Remove Other Sub Categories - New - Run within a Family, will remove all subcategories from other Categories. 136 Export Revit Server Models - New - Lists all Models within Revit Server for this Revit Version for download. 137 Keynote Browser - New - Modify and Assign Keynotes within Revit within a controlled dialog. 138 Family Standards Advanced - New - A Washing Machine to clean Families. 139 Pinned Elements - New - Lists all Pinned Elements within a View. 140 List Elements in Views - New - Returns all Elements within a View via Excel. 143 Convert DWGs - New - Convert Linked CAD files to Revit Line Work. 144 Material Usage Reassignment - New - View Material applications to selectively reassign. 145 Layer Properties - New - Extract System Family Layer Properties. 146 Keynote Usage - New - View Keynote Usage. Revit 2021 enabled. |
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20.19.04.28 |
137 Keynote Browser - added. 77 Project Parameters - Fix - Loading Parameter with no Categories assigned. 77 Project Parameters - Fix - Reliably updating Shared Parameters. 77 Project Parameters - Fix - Highlighting Project Parameters. Project Parameters can not be updated via the API. 94 2D Element Usage - Fix - Grouping by family name correctly. 111 Shared Parameter Usage - Fix - Reliably updating Shared Parameters. 111 Shared Parameter Usage - Fix - Highlighting Project Parameters. Project Parameters can not be updated via the API. 123 Sub-Category Map - Fix - Processes multiple adds and deletes. All - Update - 2019 Foreground and Background patterns enabled. Revit 2020 enabled. |
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20.18.12.17 |
* Addition - Network License Version working with SQL. * 81 Floor To Follow Floor - Fix - Accommodates when the second floors Height Offset From Level is not zero. * Fix - Release of Standalone License. * Addition - Standalone License will auto register if the following file is found with a valid License key: C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\BonusTools.bundle\Contents\KCApps\StandaloneKey.txt. If the file is empty the Standalone License will de-register. |
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20.18.09.26 |
Revit 2015 and 2016 load issue resolved. Trail key fixed. 18 Remove All Views - Update - No longer lists Revision Schedules 56 Print Revisions - Update - Remove message when exporting DWG's. 129 Relationships - New - Check relationships before deleting an Element. 32 Navisworks - Fix - Placing tags 53 Show warnings - Update - Auto adjust row heights. 53 Show warnigns - Update - Clear button to remove old warning data from elements within the Active View 53 Show warnigns - Fix - Now working with Revit 2019 |
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20.18.06.07 |
* Revit 2019 fix. * 112 Dockable Dialog - Removed - Will still show for the following tools as their feedback window. 08 Family Tracking, 13 Dimension, 15 Elements On Level, 16 Inplace Families, 17 Referencing Files, 18 Remove All Views, 23 Group To Family, 28 Reference Planes, 29 View Template Usage, 31 Setting Out Points, 32 Navis To Revit, 33 Excel New Rooms, 33 Excel New Sheets, 34 Add Shared Parameters, 40 Copy Parameter Values, 41 Room Number To Door Number, 43 Place Family Types, 47 Areas Rooms To Mass, 52 Renumber Category, 58 File Coordinates, 59 Clash Importer, 67 Extensible Storage List, 71 RDS Tool, 73 Unused Elevation Markers, 75 Import Family Type, 78 Plan Regions, 79 Grid Alignment, 80 Revision List, 84 Scope Box Map, 85 Line Patterns Advanced, 87 3D Room Tag, 88 Element Properties Advanced, 90 Copy View Templates, 96 Room Paint Bomb, 98 Find Painted Elements, 99 Copy Scope Box, 100 Schedule Usage, 105 Tag All, 108 Add Project Shared Parameters, 110 Legend Usage, 111 Shared Parameter Usage, 112 Dockable Dialog, 114 Fill Patterns, 116 Line Styles, 121 Document Marcos, 122 Material Usage, 124 Update Key Plan * 113 Dockable Element Dialog - Removed - Pending further development. * 08 Ribbon Settings - Update - Supply Usage toggle to turn off/on. Each time a tool is activated, a record will be sent to Kiwi Codes. This allows us to focus development on those high use tools. * 08 Ribbon Settings - Update - Supply Warnings toggle to turn off/on. Each time a warning is created, a record will be sent to Kiwi Codes. This allows us to focus on fixing and removing bugs. * 35 View Filters - Reinstated. * 127 Style Output - New - Export Style information to Excel. * 128 Filter Usage - Number changed. |
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20.18.05.03 |
Supply Usage. Each time a tool is activated, a record will be sent to Kiwi Codes. This allows us to focus development on those high use tools. Note: only tool activation will be recorded, no other action or data. Supply Warnings. Each time a warning is created, a record will be sent to Kiwi Codes. This allows us to focus on fixing and removing bugs. Note: only warning data will be recorded, no other action or data. * 56 Print Revisions - Update - Fix to run in Revit 2018.2 on wards. * 56 Print Revisions - Update - Select sheets based on sheet sets. * 75 Family Type Renamer - Update - Completes Proposed names with existing in Red. * 121 Document Marcos - New - Lists all Application and Document Modules. Bulk delete. * 122 Element Usage - New - Shows the Usage of Materials, Material Assets, Filled Regions, Fill Patterns, Line Patterns, Reference Planes and Filters. * 123 Sub-Category Map - New - Export and Import Category and Sub-Category settings. * 124 Update Key Plan - New - Bulk set or update intelligent Key Plans. |
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20.18.02.26 |
* 120 Dynamic Warnings - New - Display warnings for selected items. * 07 Window Watcher - Update - Addition of run in silent mode. * 08 Ribbon Settings - Update - Changed Warning Tracker to separate by comma, instead of tab, i.e. to be CSV. * 08 Ribbon Settings - Fix- Auto Show Output. * 08 Ribbon Settings - Update - 113 Dockable Element Dialog turned off by default. * 08 Ribbon Settings - Update - 120 Dynamic Warnings turned off by default. * 38 View Duplication - Update - Removed all from the View Type drop down. |
