dRVT is now a native Revit add-in that takes you from a door in the model to a finished, checked hardware set, and lets you see every part of it on a 3D door. It runs in Revit 2024 and 2026. Here’s what shipped this week, and where it’s headed.
One workspace, from door to detail
We rebuilt the user interface from the ground up. It’s one window that reads left to right, the way hardware actually gets specified:
- Doors: every door in the model, filtered by phase and level, with a plan preview of the one you pick.
- Sets: your hardware sets, each with a live status.
- Editor: the hardware, operation and notes for the selected set.
- 3D view: that set on a door, part by part.
Drag the handles between panes to size them however you work. A dashboard across the top tracks doors grouped, sets complete, doors not yet applied and checks to review. When you’re done, one click writes the set numbers to your doors for schedules, and the sets export to Word. Add to Set lets you assign doors straight from any Revit view.
See every part, and edit from it
A hardware schedule is a list of words. dRVT shows you what those words look like on a real door.
- Hover to learn. Point at any part and a card explains what it is, how it works, why this set needs it, and a close-up.
- Click to change. Every card lists the alternates. Click one and it goes into the set, with the door updating as you go.
- Drawn like an architect would. Light inner lines with a heavy outer profile, like a hand-inked axonometric, and hardware at believable scale, down to concealed closer arms and coordinators.
- Moves like Revit. Orbit, pan with the middle mouse button, and zoom toward the cursor. Flip between the pull and push sides, single and pair, or swing the door open.
Catches what doesn’t belong on a door
Every pick is checked against the rest of the set as you make it.
- Can’t be built? It’s fixed for you. Pick an exit device and the push/pull it replaces comes off, with a note saying why.
- Builds, but doesn’t make sense? A yellow flag points it out, like a coordinator on a mullion pair or a stop-arm closer with a wall stop, and leaves the call to you.
- Flags common code conflicts. Mechanical hold-opens on fire-rated doors, maglocks without their required releases, card readers with nothing to unlock, missing power transfer, and sets viewed as pairs when their doors are singles.
The catalog grew too, with maglocks, card readers and keypads, fire-alarm closer-holders and concealed coordinators.
Where we’re going
The foundation is in place: a fast native add-in, a guided workflow, and a 3D door that teaches as you specify. Next, we’re putting it through real projects and preparing for wider release, starting with a signed, verified add-in and a one-step installer. Your firm library already carries your standard sets from project to project. That’s the goal: door hardware you understand, not just schedule.