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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
- 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.
- 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.
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