Briefs change
Programmes are refined daily, keeping Revit aligned to Excel is painful. SpaceGen syncs to the latest Excel, highlight items that are synced; out of sync; orphaned; duplicate and/or new.
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SpaceGen
Bring clarity to early-stage design, helping teams manage programme data, validate areas, and quickly develop massing models into coordinated Revit content.
Early-stage challenges
Architects and design teams face the same early‑stage challenges on every project: shifting briefs, evolving area targets, rapid option testing, and the pressure to keep models and schedules in sync. Mass From Excel brings order to that complexity; letting you import programme data from Microsoft Excel, place and sync massing rapidly, visually check area compliance, and, when ready, generate walls, floors and Rooms from your massing model.
Import programme data from Excel
Place and sync massing
Why early design is hard
Area compliance is opaque
It’s easy to miss rooms drifting from targets. SpaceGen creates colour‑coded compliance directly in views (traffic‑light logic), so issues are instantly visible without diving into schedules.
Optioneering is time‑consuming
Testing layouts should be fast and reversible. Quickly arrange spaces whilst keeping tabs on area compliancy.
Coordination overhead
Design momentum stalls when data, drawings, and visuals diverge. SpaceGen maintains a lightweight audit trail (who/when synced) and make select‑in‑model by RoomID a one‑click action.
Alignment with the RIBA Plan of work
Maintain a clean data trail from briefed intent to build outcomes.
Stage 1
Preparation and brief
Make use of Revit from an early stage. Import headline areas from Excel. Build an initial massing set aligned to the brief.
Stage 2
Concept Design
Rapid test‑fit at scale. Colour‑by‑compliance views show where targets aren’t met. Iterate fast.
Stage 3
Spatial Coordination
Rapid test‑fit at scale. Colour‑by‑compliance views show where targets aren’t met. Iterate fast.
Stage 4
Technical Design
Continue to sync as the brief evolves. Use numeric schedules and visual filters to police drift before issue.
Outcome experiences
- Speed and time: typically saved on early design iterations (housing plots, department in schools, airports, hospitals).
- De-risk: sign off with live color checks and numeric schedules.
- Stakeholder alilgnment: with traffic light views that everyone understands at a glance.
Why choose Naviate SpaceGen
Microsoft Excel integration
Bind spreadsheet columns (targets, actuals, RoomID, type, notes) to Revit parameters.
Rapid mass placement
Grid/line placement with adjustable gaps, horizontal/vertical layouts.
Sync and audit
Statuses for Synced; Out of Sync; Orphaned; Duplicate; New; time/user stamps.
Visual compliance
Resilient Revit view filters (no custom shaders), with simple, explainable thresholds.
Cut circulation space
Place new masses and automatically cut corridors from placed masses.
Model generation
Convert massing to walls; floors and rooms when ready without re‑work.
End-User License Agreement (EULA)
The software solutions available through Naviate Tech Preview are provided free of charge and should be considered experimental. While we strive to deliver useful tools, they are still under development and may contain known or unknown issues.
We strongly recommend that you:
- Exercise caution when using these solutions
- Carefully verify all results
- Maintain proper backups of your data
If you encounter any issues, we encourage you to report them to us.
Please be aware that these solutions may be updated, modified, or discontinued at any time. Some may evolve into official Naviate features in the future - while others may not.