Ideate Software, an Autodesk® AEC Industry Partner and Autodesk® Authorized Developer, is pleased to announce the sixth anniversary of its fourth solution for Revit users, Ideate Sticky. Based on customer comments, Ideate Sticky was developed to allow users to create and format tabular text in an Excel spreadsheet and then “stick” that spreadsheet on a Revit sheet as a Revit schedule.
The original idea for Ideate Sticky came through David Conant, the first architect-employee at Revit (pre-Autodesk). It was David’s idea to investigate the use of Revit’s schedule headers as a way to efficiently and elegantly represent tabular data. The earliest version, created with David’s input, was called Ideate Table.
“With the six-year anniversary upon us, we reminisced about the evolution of Ideate Sticky and enjoyed remembering feature requests, the software development process, beta testing and the launch of each new feature,” said Glynnis Patterson, Director of Software Development, Ideate Software. “Here is a quick trip down memory lane at some improvements made to Ideate Sticky over the years.”
April 2015
This new tool received rave reviews from customers, many of whom saw more ways in which they could use it. Just a few months after the launch, when Ideate Software aligned the software with Revit 2016, it announced several new customer-requested Excel sample files, including:
- Plumbing Fixture Counts
- Hardware Schedules
- General Notes and Bid Scopes
- Special Characters
2016 – 2019
As word of this powerful new tool spread throughout the AECO community, more and more people reached out with compliments and ideas for enhancements. During this time, Ideate Software:
- Improved visual fidelity
- Added support for hidden rows and columns
- Added the ability to use any named region to define a Sticky
- Added the ability to include an image, such as a company logo, within the header
- Improved the File Open process
- Added a progress bar to File Open
- Streamlined installation and activation; sped up opening and updating
- Allowed access for files stored on Autodesk BIM 360 via the Desktop Connector
2020
This past year marked significant advancements in Ideate Sticky. Ideate Software added the ability to:
- Link PDF and Microsoft Word documents into Revit projects
- Link multi-paged documents at once
- Link Excel spreadsheets to Revit files as images
- Mass edit Ideate Sticky properties
- Have Stickies appear in black and white
Here’s a look at Ideate Sticky, 6 years and 12 versions later…
“We extend a sincere thank you to our customers that helped us make Ideate Sticky into the must-have Revit solution it is today, and we look forward to continuing its evolution to meet their needs,” said Glynnis.
