Material Manager · ZFENIX Revit Add-in

01 · THE PROBLEM

A project's material list bloats over years and many hands — names drift from the convention, functionally identical duplicates scatter across the model, and the Excel sheet used to track it all clings to the one thing most likely to change: the Name.

93 lỗi

BEP-noncompliant materials nobody catches

The BEP requires materials named to the project code, but Revit warns nobody when someone types a different name by hand — the mismatch only surfaces at QA, or when the reviewer sends the package back.

6 nhóm

Same material, different names

Concrete, BT, Bê tông — every modeler names it their own way, and Revit treats them as three separate materials. Merging them by hand, element by element, is a job nobody wants.

1–2 h

Renaming breaks the Excel material sheet

The Excel sheet exported for the subcontractor to cross-check matches by material Name only. Rename it in Revit — even just a typo fix — and the matching Excel row drifts loose, forcing a manual row-by-row re-match.

247 vật liệu

One property, one material, one click at a time

Revit's native Material Browser only lets you edit Class, Keynote or description one material at a time, in its own dialog. A few hundred materials means repeating that click-through hundreds of times.

02 · FEATURES

What it does

Free add-ins on the market usually do one job: Autodesk's own Duplicated Materials Add-on only removes exact-name duplicates, and modplus Material Manager only renames and swaps materials on elements. Ideate StyleManager can rename and merge, but it's a general cleanup tool for line styles, patterns and filters too — not material-specific — and costs $795–5,500. Material Manager combines all three in one window:

A

Standardise

Check material names against the project BEP convention
Merge duplicate materials while keeping element links
Assign consistent fill patterns, cut and surface colours

B

Excel round-trip

Export every material to Excel with its stable UniqueId
Edit in Excel and import back — renaming never breaks the link
Preview the changes before writing to the model

C

AI assistant

Chat with the AI for name, class and colour suggestions on the selected material
The AI follows the whole conversation — say "ok" or "go ahead" and it acts, instead of asking again from scratch
Rename in bulk to a rule straight from the chat — hundreds of materials in a single command
Standardise class, description, code, colour and surface/cut pattern by keyword group in one sentence
Paste an image (Ctrl+V) for the AI to analyse and fill in material details
Customise the AI's instructions, one click to load the Vietnamese BIM convention preset
Undo AI actions independently via snapshots, without touching manual edits

Material Manager.