Quick Start Guide BCF Manager Revit
This Quick Start Guide describes the basic online workflow of the BCF Manager for Revit. It will get you up and running in no time.
If you have not yet installed it,
download and install the BCF Manager for Revit here.
Online workflow BCF Manager
- Start Revit
- Load the model(s) for which you want to create or review issues in Revit
- Choose the BIMcollab tab in the ribbon
- Click on the BCF Manager icon to open the BIMcollab BCF Manager pop-up window
If you are a first time user, you first need to Activate your BCF Manager. - Create a View Template in Revit, to determine the view settings when zooming to issues from the BCF Manager
- Connect to a project on BIMcollab Cloud from the BCF Manager (1)
- If there are already issues present in the project you connect to, they will be displayed in the issue list (2)
- Create new issues manually (3)
- Select issues in the issue list and see its details (4)
- When an issue is selected, you can quick edit it (5), or add a new comment to it (6)
- Double click the issue to zoom to its viewpoint in the model in Revit
- When you have made all the necessary changes, synchronize the project to BIMcollab Cloud, to share the issues with your team members (7)
To know how to use the BCF manager without connecting to a project in BIMcollab Cloud, consult the article about the
offline workflow with the BCF Manager.
The BCF Manager window
- New offline project
- Import and save a BCF file
- Connect to a project on BIMcollab Cloud
- Synchronize the project
- Display settings issues list
- Search
- Edit, create or delete an issue
- BCF options
- Name of the project you are connected to
- Active filter and Filter issues
- Issue list
- Create a section box around selected elements
- Add viewpoint to the selected comment (only visible when comment is selected)
- Edit snapshot of the selected comment (only visible when comment is selected)
- Delete viewpoint of the selected comment (only visible when comment is selected)
- Zoom-to options
- Viewpoint information
- Show snapshot of the selected issue or comment
- When an issue is selected: Description of the issue
When a comment is selected: Edit the selected comment - Snapshot of the selected issue or comment
- Quick edit of the selected issue
- Add a comment
- View comments of the selected issue
- View details of the selected issue
- Comments or details of the selected issue
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