The CTC Nexus Suite™ is a cloud-based suite of integrated Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools that can help improve collaboration, communication, and efficiency on construction projects.
Ally is a project standards tool for Revit®, included in the CTC Nexus Suite. It helps enforce project standards and provides additional messaging to project teams. It can be used to prevent bad practices from happening or discourage users from doing certain things. Ally can be applied at various levels in an organization, including the entire organization, project level, user group, or individual user.
Ally works by setting up rule sets and rules within the sets. These rules can be triggered by various events in Revit, such as a user trying to explode an AutoCAD® file. When a rule is triggered, Ally can take a number of actions, such as preventing the user from doing something, showing a message to the user, or logging the event. Ally can also be used to swap objects in a Revit project. For example, you could use Ally to automatically replace all of the 3/32″ text notes in a project with 1/8″ text notes. Ally is a powerful tool that can help to improve the quality and consistency of Revit projects.
Here are a few highlights of the tool:
- Ally can be used at different levels including the entire organization, individual projects, user groups, or individual users.
- There are two main types of rules: command-based and object-based. Command-based rules restrict users from performing specific actions in Revit, while object-based rules can be used to enforce the use of specific elements or styles.
- Ally can be configured to prevent actions, warn users with a message, or both.
- Rules can also specify a passphrase that users can enter to override the rule.
- Ally keeps track of which rules are being triggered and by whom in a project log. This can be helpful for identifying users who are not following standards.
- Ally can be a useful tool for improving the quality and consistency of Revit models.
Overall, Ally is a software designed to streamline the BIM workflow by enforcing project standards and best practices. It can be used to improve the quality and consistency of Revit models.
For More detail, check our a recent webinar: A Comprehensive Introduction to Ally
