Free Revit add-in v1.0.0

Insight

Ten read-only reports that tell you what's actually in your Revit models — health score, warnings, standards drift, links, coordinates — and what to do about each finding. It never writes to your model, and it never reports a number it didn't measure.

Free — no card Read-only, runs offline Every supported version

What it reports

Ten modules, one window, no transactions.

Dashboard

A weighted health gauge with the category breakdown behind it, stat cards, and a ranked list of what to fix first.

Project health

Every category scored with its weight and the findings that produced it. Anything the tool couldn't measure is named as unevaluated rather than filled in.

Warnings explorer

Every Revit warning grouped for triage. Select the offending elements or isolate them in the view without leaving the report.

Cleanup reports

Five reports covering the accumulation that nobody schedules time to clear out.

Model performance

File size, imported geometry, groups, and in-place families — the usual explanations for a model that has gotten slow.

Standards audit

Nine categories compared against a reference template: what matches, what differs, and what's missing entirely.

Family reports

What's loaded, what's placed, what's nested, and what nobody has used since the project started.

Link analysis

RVT, CAD, and IFC links with path, placement, pinned state, and load status — including the ones pointing at somebody's desktop.

Coordinate audit

Four anchors, the drift between them, and the distance from internal origin that explains the accuracy warnings.

Export

Excel, CSV, or a self-contained printable HTML report. Sections are individually selectable, so the family list nobody wants can be left out.

How it works

Open a model, run a scan, act on what it found.

  1. 1

    Install

    One MSI per Revit version, plus the license file. Nothing to sign into, no server to stand up, no account needed on the machine that runs it.

  2. 2

    Scan

    Open the model and run Insight from the ribbon. Every command runs in Revit's read-only transaction mode — Revit itself refuses to hand the tool a transaction.

  3. 3

    Triage

    Work the dashboard's ranked recommendations, or go straight to a module. Every finding states what was found, why it matters, and the next step — that's enforced, not aspirational.

  4. 4

    Export & act

    Send an Excel workbook, CSV, or printable HTML report to whoever needs it. Where a finding has a product that would prevent it recurring, it says so once — not once per finding.

Scope & limits

A free tool that overstates itself is worse than no tool. Here is exactly where the line is.

What it will not do

Insight has no write path. It does not deploy or modify standards, create projects or folder structures, configure worksharing, synchronise templates, copy families between projects, repair coordinates, or batch-update anything.

Selecting elements and temporarily isolating them are the two exceptions — they change what is on your screen, not what is in the file, and isolation is discarded when the view closes.

Not measuredWhy
Family file sizeOnly measurable by opening each family as a document
Unused materialsRequires walking every element's parameters
Duplicate typesRequires comparing full parameter sets across every type
Coordinate clip stateNo stable parameter across 2022–2027

These are reported as unknown wherever a column exists for them — never estimated, and never folded into the health score.

Not in this release

The documentation site is still being written, so the reference links attached to findings don't all resolve yet. There's no scan history, so health trends have nothing to compare against; the toolbar search box doesn't filter yet; most settings are fixed rather than editable; and there is no automatic updater. Report speed hasn't been benchmarked against a production-scale model — if it's slow on yours, we want to hear about it.

Compatibility

What runs, what's required, what isn't.

Revit versions
Revit 2027Supported
Revit 2026Supported
Revit 2025Supported
Revit 2024Supported
Revit 2023Supported
Revit 2022Supported
System
Operating systemWindows 10 / 11
RuntimeRevit's own (.NET 4.8 / .NET 8)
ACC entitlementNot required
NetworkNone — runs offline

Security & licensing

Free doesn't mean IT gets to skip the review.

Read-only by construction

Every command declares Revit's read-only transaction mode, so Revit will not grant the tool a transaction. There is no write path to disable or trust us about.

Offline license validation

Licenses are JSON files signed with an Ed25519 private key. The add-in validates against an embedded public key with no network call.

No telemetry today

The product collects nothing and phones home to nothing. Opt-in usage analytics is on the roadmap; if it ships it will be opt-in, off by default, and announced in the changelog.

Your model data stays put

Nothing is uploaded. Reports are written to the folder you choose, on your machine.

Per-firm, every supported version

One free grant issues a license for each of Revit 2022 through 2027, covering every seat at your company. No seat count, no expiry, no renewal.

Signed installers, SAS-gated downloads

MSI installers are Authenticode-signed. Download URLs are short-lived Azure Blob SAS tokens scoped to your license.

Pricing

Insight is free. Create an account and we issue a per-firm license for every supported Revit version — 2022 through 2027 — with no expiry and no seat count.

Why it's free

Insight tells you what's wrong. Our paid products are how you stop it happening again — Launch sets projects up correctly on day one, Accelerate builds the drawing set from your standards, and Keystone keeps those standards from drifting once deployed.

There's no upsell wall inside the product: nothing is locked, nothing expires, and no report is held back. When a finding has a product that would have prevented it, the report says so once and moves on.

IncludedFree
Project health dashboard & scoring
Warnings explorer (grouped triage, select & isolate)
Standards audit against a reference template Nine categories
Model performance report
Family, view, link & coordinate reports
Cleanup reports Five reports
Export to Excel, CSV & HTML
Read-only — no write path to your model
Revit version coverage All supported versions
Support Community

Where the reports point

Findings that keep recurring are usually a setup problem, not a cleanup problem.

When the report findsWhat would prevent it
Missing or drifting standards Keystone
Imported CAD, links on local paths, coordinates never acquired Launch
Views off-template, unplaced on sheets, or named off-standard Accelerate
Broken or unresolved cloud links Bridge

Additional services

ServicePrice
Additional Consulting$225/hr
Half-Day Engagement (4 hours)$900
Full-Day Engagement (8 hours)$1,800

FAQ

What's the catch?

There isn't one. Insight is how most people will meet us, and a tool that quietly withheld half its findings would be a bad introduction. Nothing is time-limited, nothing is locked behind a tier, and no report is truncated. We make money when a firm decides they'd rather prevent the findings than keep cleaning them up.

Why do I need an account?

That's how the licenses and installers get to you. Creating one issues a signed license for every supported Revit version, emails you the files, and keeps them re-downloadable from your account page. The add-in itself never asks you to sign in.

Can it change my model?

No. Every command runs in Revit's read-only transaction mode, which means Revit refuses to give the tool a transaction — there is no write path to trust us about. Selecting and temporarily isolating elements are the only things it does to your session, and isolation is discarded when the view closes.

Does it phone home?

No. It collects nothing, sends nothing, and needs no network connection to run or to validate its license. Opt-in analytics is on the roadmap; if it ships it will be off by default and announced in the changelog.

Which Revit versions do I get?

All of them — 2022 through 2027. One free grant issues a separate per-firm license for each year, all at once, so nobody hits a wall the week you upgrade.

Can we use it on client work?

Yes. The license covers every seat at your company for commercial work, with no seat count to manage and no expiry.

How fast is it on a large model?

Honestly: we don't have a benchmark we'd stand behind yet. The view-by-view collectors are the most likely thing to be slow on a big model, and that hasn't been measured against production-scale files. If it's slow on yours, tell us — that's the most useful bug report we could get right now.

Where's the documentation?

Being written. Findings carry reference links that will resolve as those pages land; until then the finding text itself explains what was found, why it matters, and what to do.

What support comes with it?

Best-effort email support at info@dsqapps.com — no SLA, since nobody paid for one. Paid products get a 1-business-day response commitment.

Can I deploy it via Intune / GPO?

Yes. Ships as a standard signed MSI plus a .addin manifest. Drop the license file in %ProgramData%\Autodesk\Revit\Addins or push it through your usual channel.

Changelog

v1.0.0
Jul 28, 2026

Initial release: dashboard and weighted health scoring, project health, warnings explorer, cleanup reports, model performance, standards audit against a reference template, family and view reports, link analysis, coordinate audit, and export to Excel, CSV and HTML.

Next: the documentation pages behind each finding, scan history so health can be trended, and opt-in analytics and automatic updates.