erikfrits / ef-tools

Save your time and nerves with EF-Tools. It's a pyRevit Extension for Autodesk Revit. There are 40+ tools in the toolbar and you will be able to improve your workflows or even discover new ones.

🛠 EF-Tools 🛠

Developed by Erik Frits

🛠 𝐄𝐅-𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 is a FREE pyRevit extension that contains over 50+ tools that should solve your issues and improve your workflows.
And once more: it's 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄. So you should take full advantage of this!

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📦 Revit Versions 📦

These tools are mainly developed in Revit 2019-2023.

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💠 Installation 💠

EF-Tools is part of pyRevit default Extensions. And it has very simple and quick installation.

▶ Install pyRevit  
▶ Open Extensions Menu  
▶ Select EF-Tools  
▶ click on Install

🎬 YouTube Tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0zbdyyBIo0

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🐛 Bugs

If you happen to come across any bugs or error messages, please let me know. Contact me directly or just open an Issue on GitHub so I can have a look and solve it.

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Contact me:

📨 [email protected]
🤵 https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-frits
▶ https://www.youtube.com/c/ErikFrits

ef-tools's Issues

EF tools ERROR message installing . Not able to connect with server

Hi Eric, trying to install EF extension with PyRevit version 4.8.13 in Revit 2024 I am getting this error message. Would appreciate any help. Thank you

pd. I am tryuing to attached jpg image file and not sure if I am allowed to. Sorry, let me know if there is any other way of sending or contacting with you

Feature request: on the 'Reverse Engineer' window, remember the settings specific to every connection

On data import projects, it is common to have multiple connections to multiple SQL Server databases.
Every time we run the (awesome, thank you!!!) EF Tools to rebuild the models from one of the dbs, we have to modify all the settings in the 'Generate EF Core Model' window by hand every time (as it remembers only the last one).
It would be awesome if the UI would "remember" those settings for every connection (dbcontext) in the project.

Thank you.

Cant hide levels?

getting following error.
Using it for the first time. Is there some step i missed?


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\prasadi\AppData\Roaming\pyRevit\Extensions\EF-Tools.extension\EF_Tools.tab\Maintenance.panel\Warnings.pulldown\Isolate Warnings.pushbutton\script.py", line 257, in do_stuff
view.SetCategoryHidden(ElementId(BuiltInCategory.OST_Levels), True) # Hide Levels
Exception: Category cannot be hidden.
Parameter name: categoryId

Feature Request: Align View Title?

Hello! Been loving the features in this toolbar ever since it was rolled out with the latest version of pyRevit! I do have a feature request, though:

Could the "Align Viewports" tool have an option to align the locations of the View Title in addition to the viewports? Not sure how difficult or feasible it is to obtain and set the location of the view title through the API, but this would be very helpful.

Thank you!

ViewFilters: Copy to Another View

Hi,
your copy View Filter add-in came in handy but I also needed it to copy the Visibility Filter sometimes so I added 2 lines of code to also copy the Boolean:

visibility = self.src_view.GetFilterVisibility(filter.Id)
view.SetFilterVisibility(filter.Id, visibility)

Thanks and hopefully this contributes a little :)

Using View Filters : Create Legend

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Exception occured - Transaction is being Rollbacked!

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\kent.watson\AppData\Roaming\pyRevit\Extensions\EF-Tools.extension\EF_Tools.tab\Views.panel\Column2.stack\ViewFilters.pulldown\ViewFiltersLegend.pushbutton\script.py", line 572, in
x = CreateFilters()
File "C:\Users\kent.watson\AppData\Roaming\pyRevit\Extensions\EF-Tools.extension\EF_Tools.tab\Views.panel\Column2.stack\ViewFilters.pulldown\ViewFiltersLegend.pushbutton\script.py", line 286, in init
self.ShowDialog()
File "C:\Users\kent.watson\AppData\Roaming\pyRevit\Extensions\EF-Tools.extension\EF_Tools.tab\Views.panel\Column2.stack\ViewFilters.pulldown\ViewFiltersLegend.pushbutton\script.py", line 406, in button_run
legend_view = self.create_legend_view(legend_name)
File "C:\Users\kent.watson\AppData\Roaming\pyRevit\Extensions\EF-Tools.extension\EF_Tools.tab\Views.panel\Column2.stack\ViewFilters.pulldown\ViewFiltersLegend.pushbutton\script.py", line 312, in create_legend_view
new_legend_view_id = random_legend.Duplicate(ViewDuplicateOption.Duplicate)
Exception: View cannot be duplicated

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IronPython Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\kent.watson\AppData\Roaming\pyRevit\Extensions\EF-Tools.extension\EF_Tools.tab\Views.panel\Column2.stack\ViewFilters.pulldown\ViewFiltersLegend.pushbutton\script.py", line 573, in
NameError: name 'x' is not defined

Script Executor Traceback:
IronPython.Runtime.UnboundNameException: name 'x' is not defined
at IronPython.Runtime.Operations.PythonOps.GetVariable(CodeContext context, String name, Boolean isGlobal, Boolean lightThrow)
at IronPython.Compiler.LookupGlobalInstruction.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
at Microsoft.Scripting.Interpreter.Interpreter.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
at Microsoft.Scripting.Interpreter.LightLambda.Run2[T0,T1,TRet](T0 arg0, T1 arg1)
at IronPython.Compiler.PythonScriptCode.RunWorker(CodeContext ctx)
at PyRevitLabs.PyRevit.Runtime.IronPythonEngine.Execute(ScriptRuntime& runtime)

not compatible with new Revit 2024

hopefully an update will be available for Revit 2024

'module' object has no attribute 'engine'

I get this error when I run e.g. the "Shorten Ribbon names" command. Any ideas?

IronPython Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\pyRevit\Extensions\EF-Tools.extension\EF_Tools.tab\UI.panel\col1.stack\ShortenRibbonNames.pushbutton\script.py", line 43, in <module> File "C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\pyRevit-Master\pyrevitlib\pyrevit\__init__.py", line 74, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'engine'

Replace Materials doesn't work in 23

Hi Erik, stumbled across your Youtube vid about replacing materials. Could be a life saver but it doesn't work. Tested n multiple projects in Revit 2023 but I only get this log "In Total: Material was replaced in 0 Parameters.". Hope you can fix it! Best of luck.

Tooltip width in R2024: unintended line break

it seems Autodesk has adjusted the width of the tooltip and your separator lines have an unintended line break. Not tested with R2025, just R2021 and R2024

Lines in the tooltip are too long

EF-Tools- Isolate Warnings add quantities?

Hi there,

Can the quantities be added to the Isolate Warnings output window? Thanks

Regions : Change Linestyle not working

Regions : Change Linestyle seems to not working on my computer.
the window for chosing linestyle Opens but nothing happens after validating the desired linestyle.

Revit 2022.1 French
Regions : Change Linestyle V1.2