QARC4Revit is a support system for Architect & Building Designers who use Autodesk Revit©
QARC4Revit + BIMLocker boosts a practice’s ability to produce quality design, documentation and saves your practice time and money. It is a Plug-in sitting wholly within the Revit environment. The QARC4Revit Premium system makes it possible for every Revit user to efficiently model and consistently produce quality documentation.
What is included?
Our ARChetype template assists you and your practice into advanced application of the documentation side of Revit. ARChetype has all sheets, legends, schedules, symbols, annotations, linestyles, dimstyles etc pre-loaded for immediate application.
1. Views are all pre-set and loaded onto sheets. Everything looks right.
2. Notes to the side of each sheet informs how to use that sheet well.
3. Highly functional Titleblocks in your style, which have rotatable north points and switchable scale bars.
4. Check sheets to ensure all team members apply drafting principles to ensure QA protocols.
5. A companion for easy reference to the finer details about the QARC4Revit system.
6. 11,000+ Quality content made for Australia/NZ conditions, with BIM information, materials and assets, delivered direct to project from the cloud.
7. The content includes extra annotation items like text, dimensions, hatches.
WORLD FIRST! The QARC4Revit plug-in can deliver System Families – walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, railings, stairs – complete with assets and materials. Tips & Tricks, from within Revit that give you extra methodologies to understand how to use it smarter.
Why is it valuable?
The QARC4Revit system was developed over many years by Design industry professionals who know what a Design and Documentation team need to achieve from their software.
The template system would cost over AUS$70,000 in house to set up, and you benefit from years of learning and expertise. Having an effective template is crucial to any practice seeking to streamline workflows and become more profitable.
This template is fool proof and with the on-sheet notes & check sheets, ensures continuity across your practice, and teaches your junior staff how to use Revit effectively.
1. The QARC4Revit template dovetails with the content delivered from the cloud to respond to schedules.
2. QARC content is delivered with materials and assets to correctly populate schedules and for rendering.
3. The whole system saves each user around 2 hours every day. It pays for itself in under 1 month.
How does BIMLocker fit into this?
BIMLocker is our unique content system, made available to you so you can populate your own library, any way you like. It comes in 4 versions, Explorer (free), Personal, Workgroup and Enterprise. These range from straightforward & personal, through shared content, to a full BIM Manager version.
Check out the range with the I WANT QARC button below:
PREMIUM + comes with BIMLocker Personal!
The ARChetype system is our name for the most comprehensive Revit template in the world. There are a few parts to it.
The ARChetype is a Revit template file, acting as a full toolbox, with all sheets and views prepared. You simply start modelling and documenting is occurring.
1. A comprehensive collection of sheets with appropriate views, legends and schedules already placed on them to save you time.
2. A Sheet numbering system developed by Architects and Building Designers to ensure your documentation is complete.
3. Standard annotation styles enabling you to set office standards.
4. Text, Line, Dimension, Hatch styles, using common industry standards.
5. Tags and Keynoting.
6. Schedules including windows, doors, drawing lists, extensive area schedules, rooms.
7. Calculation Schedules including Bracing and Cut & Fill, generated from the model.
8. Material take-offs.
9. General notes locations, Safety Notes and Sustainability notes as a guide to complete documentation.
10. Pre-set levels with attached views enabling existing and new building manipulation.
11. 3D and Axonometric views prepared on sheets.
12. Shadow plans and 3Ds prepared to display shadow diagrams at pre-set times.
13. Sections and Elevations prepared and placed on sheets.
14. Framing plans pre-configured to show various aspects of structure.
15. Detail sheets with content which can be used or amended to suit your project.
16. Useful information such as Ramp Slopes and Solar Angles to assist with the design process.
17. View Templates for creating extra views.
The ARChetype in its full glory is part of the Premium & Premium+ products. Refer I WANT QARC.
The ARChetype becomes your own in look, by simply inserting the QARC Titleblocks. We provide 15 choices of Standardised Titleblocks.
The ARChetype has been designed to change its look completely, by the insertion of these Titleblocks. There are both horizontal and vertical Titleblocks so you can switch as needed to suit the sheet content. ARChetype has cover Titleblocks, and even a minimal one for showing a consultant’s drawing.
The QARC4Revit Titleblocks help you create good documentation:
1. Multiple North points, all rotatable across the set, some with magnetic/true variance.
2. Many scale bars, easily chosen by check boxes.
3. Extra fields for additional project & sheet data.
4. QARC’s Issue system.
5. Bottom right – sheet number, project number and issue.
6. The Titleblock is ‘thin’, while still providing all that is needed.
For a fee we will provide Customised Titleblocks. Refer I WANT QARC.
Green Notes:
Green notes on each sheet give you hints and directions on how to use each one. We explain how each sheet is constructed, and they assist in training you & your staff in good documentation within Revit. They are placed at the right of each sheet, so they do not print.
Support Buttons:
Companion:
The QARC menu ribbon has four Support buttons, accessing an internal PDF reader. One is our comprehensive Companion. Over 100 pages, it fully explains everything in how the QARC4Revit plug-in works. Get The Sample Here.
Check Sheets:
These are designed to help staff understand not only the minimum requirements for documentation but also what is ideal. Your drawings should be telling a ‘full story’ to the readers, whether they be clients, authorities, certifiers, builders and tradies. Get The Sample Here.
Videos:
There are 37 short Tutorial Videos, and growing. These show the many features of the ARChetype & Content. They are designed to fully introduce the whole toolbox, over 2 hours, if you watch them end to end.
Tips & Tricks
We provide Tips and Tricks tutorials that will help you to get the most out of Revit. These range across many subjects, like creating PDF, importing CAD, rotate a project, understanding north, raising a building, making a building envelope. You can see them on the Support & Learning page too.
QARC provides one of the biggest generic libraries in the world, along with other items, like the ARChetype.
We deliver Revit content direct to your project from the cloud using our unique Drag+Drop technology. PREMIUM has a very large library of generic content, with Free EXPLORER having some content to trial. There is a growing library of free content from product suppliers.
As designers, one of your pet hates is searching for useable BIM content and bringing that into your project. As architects and designers, we understand your needs and created QARC4Revit, with a delivery system that provides good content within the Revit environment. The QARC team is dedicated to creating elements that work:
1. PREMIUM has a generic library of 12,000+ (& growing) families and system families.
2. Families that are useable and flexible.
3. You will document better, design better and save time.
4. BIM content that comes with required information.
5. Content that renders as it should.
6. Our ARChetype template responds to this professional content.
7. Our unique Drag+Drop brings materials to your C: drive.
8. System families even include Text, Dimensions & Hatches.
9. Roof Cappings, another system family, are provided.
10. Drafting views & detail items are in the Browser.
11. All this ensures your project file stays clean.
Here are some selected views of the QARC Content Browser, illustrating how it looks and is organised.
It is a fully dockable window that you can place anywhere within the Revit interface, even ‘behind’ others, like Properties, as you see in the images.
Many users place it on their second screen, along with the Project Browser and Properties.
A full listing of the content is below.
We provide some Manufacturers’ content free of charge to the BIM community, and growing.
At right you can see sample pages from our 33 page PDF that lists out the QARC4Revit Premium 12,000+ content library.
All our library items are tested and where appropriate are fully parametric.
As a subscriber you may want to download it for reference purposes.
You can see from this listing just how comprehensive the QARC4Revit library really is. Just some:
- 380 Annotations (Including our WeatheRoses)
- 120 Appliances
- 1500 Exterior Doors
- 400 Entourage items
- 120 Dimension Styles (Yes, in our browser!)
- 150 Floors (Yes, System Families are Drag+Drop)
- 470 Furniture items
- 150 Hatches (Filled Regions)
- 250 Plumbing Fixtures
- 200 Railings
- 700 Roofs
- 1500 Roof Cappings (Better looking roofs)
- 500 Gutters & End Caps
- 200 Structural items (Yes, Trusses even)
- 220 Text Styles
- 680 Walls (Yes, more System Families)
- 1870 Windows
CLICK HERE TO VIEW QARC4REVIT CONTENT
BIMLocker is your own content library, using our unique QARC Content Browser technology. There are three levels of versions. It also comes with FREE Manufacturer Content.
BIMLocker is your own content library of favourites. Using the BIMLocker Manager, you can upload almost anything that Revit contains, similar to how the Browser already operates. Things like families & system families, through to detail items and drafting views, even schedules.
The BIMLocker Manager allows you to arrange your content in any way you prefer, like File Explorer. We include a pre-set folder structure that you can use, similar to the big QARC Library, so you can follow the same taxonomy. Like the big library you can even add icons to the folders.
1. BIMLocker Personal adds a personal folder to our unique QARC Content Browser.
2. BIMLocker Workgroup does similar to Personal, but it can be shared across your whole practice.
3. BIMLocker Enterprise, a higher version, is designed for a BIM Manager in charge of many Revit users in a practice. They can completely control the folder structure, who has rights of access & editing, and more.
4. BIMLocker Explorer is a limited free version for Explorer users to test out BIMLocker.
Here is BIMLocker Personal, with BIMLocker Manager and the resultant locker in the QARC Browser.
The smarter way to communicate your design.
Clear and complete documentation is the key to communicating your design.
You need to communicate your design ideas and intent to clients, specialist consultants and construction professionals. QARC4Revit makes it possible for every Revit user to produce quality documentation. We have created Australia’s first wholistic software plug-in to Revit, that gives you a full toolkit so your practice delivers high quality drawings. You will do it faster as well.
These example sets are here for you to view and see how it works. You’ll see buildings of a few types, like new houses, renovations & extensions, and commercial. Differing sizes too.
You too can produce great drawings by adopting QARC.
Download & View PDF Example Here:
- New House Example - 01 by: Architects Black and Wilson
- New House Example - 02 by: Latemore Design
- Renovation Example - 01 by: Latemore Design
- Renovation Example - 02 by: As Designed
- Commercial Example - 01 by: Latemore Design
- Commercial Example - 02 by: Architects Black and Wilson
- Commercial Example - 03 - Part 1 by: Architects Black and WIlson
- Commercial Example - 03 - Part 2 by: Architects Black and Wilson
- Commercial Example - 03 - Part 3 by: Architects Black and Wilson
- Commercial Example -03 - Part 4 by: Architects Black and Wilson
- Commercial Example- 03 - Part 5 by Architects Black and Wilson
- Townhouse Example -01 by: Latemore Design
- Cabinetry - Example 01 by: AS Designed
- LD-Cabinetry - Example - 02 by: Latemore Design
