Split linear elements — railings, line-based families, beams, pipes, ducts, walls — into segments by exact distance, equal spacing or picked points.
Splitting a long railing run, a chain of line-based families, or a beam into equal segments comes down to Revit's native Split Element — clicked point by point, with no numeric distance to type in, and only one element at a time.
Split Element has no distance field. To split at exact 2-metre intervals, you first have to place a dimension or reference plane as a guide, then click the split point on it — two steps for something that should just be typing a number.
Split Element won't take a multi-selection for a batch split. Twenty railing runs that each need splitting into 2-metre segments means repeating the whole procedure twenty separate times.
Splitting an element into exactly N equal parts isn't something Revit computes for you — engineers divide the total length by N on a calculator, place reference points, then split, and one rounding slip leaves an odd-length segment at the end.
Railings, line-based families, beams, pipes, ducts and walls each behave a little differently under a manual split — some keep their type and style, others need it reassigned — so the process can never be standardised into one repeatable step across the group.
Split (Pipes/Ducts) Automatically on the App Store ($1.99/month, Revit 2019–2024) only splits pipes and ducts, and only at a fixed distance. Linear Splitter also covers railings, line-based families, beams and walls, in three different ways, across several elements in one run:
The interface is matched to the tool window running in Revit.
Opening CreatorDetect MEP passing through walls, floors and beams and create openings with standard clearances.
Slab & Beam SplitterSplit beams and slabs along lines or by two clicks — a solid-boolean algorithm with true multi-line support.
Merge Beam / SlabMerge collinear beams and slabs into a single element, with un-merge to reverse it.
