A framing plugin built around one team's workflow
Repetitive structural framing a team placed by hand on every project, turned into a plugin shaped around how they model.
The problem
A structural team placed and configured framing in Revit by hand on every project. The same beams, the same setup, the same repetitive modelling, over and over, because that was simply how the work went. It is the kind of task that never feels big enough to fix, but across a team and across projects it quietly adds up, and it is exactly the sort of repetition a tool can take off their hands.
What I built
I built a custom Revit plugin that places and configures the framing the way the team already does it. Rather than working from a generic template, it uses the project’s own grids and levels, so the framing lands where it should, to their standards.
What took a manual pass on every project now runs in seconds, from the same reliable baseline.
What makes this work
It reads the project's existing grids and levels and places framing to the team's own model standards, so what it produces matches what they would have modelled by hand instead of something they then have to correct. It fits because it was built around their workflow rather than a generic one.
What changed
The repetitive framing that used to be placed by hand on every project now runs in seconds, from a baseline the team trusts because it mirrors how they already work.
Notes on maintainability
Shaped around the team's real model standards, so the placed framing matches what they would have modelled by hand.