Streamline your firm’s workflows with AVAIL’s free features. Our content management system (CMS) makes it easier for designers and engineers to consistently find and reuse all types of technical content. Get started organizing your firm’s BIM Library with the free tier of our CMS today. Additionally, thousands of free manufacturer Revit families are available in AVAIL Select for easy use in projects, and our free Project Navigator Revit add-in gives quick access to your firm’s AVAIL library in Revit. Learn more about what AVAIL for free can do for your firm.
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Exploring the free tier of AVAIL’s CMS
For architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms, a content management system (CMS) can reduce inconsistencies between deliverables across the company, make it easy to onboard new hires to the firm’s library, and help your firm avoid costly errors in the documentation phase.
The free tier of AVAIL’s CMS gives teams the power to start organizing your BIM library immediately. This is a great option for those who want to test out the AVAIL system or know they’ll only need a few Channels to accomplish their firm’s content management goals.
Core features of AVAIL’s free tier
- Index up to 3,000 files (including Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, 3ds Max, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and thousands more file types) to be easily searchable in the AVAIL platform
- Create up to two Channels
- Share Channels with an unlimited number of free consumer users
- Customize thumbnails of files
- Access the AVAIL Marketplace, including the AVAIL Select Channels with free manufacturer Revit families (more below)
- Utilize Revit plugin Project Navigator to quickly access your AVAIL library in the Revit application (more below)
- NEW! Ask the AI-powered Help Chatbot questions about AVAIL*
*Available with AVAIL 5.0 Production Release
The free tier of AVAIL’s CMS helps you create a dedicated library for your team, indexing files from network locations alongside cloud locations like Microsoft SharePoint or OneDrive.
The paid tiers of AVAIL help build even more efficiency into these workflows, but the free tier will set up your firm with the core capabilities you need to begin streamlining your firm’s filing systems and free up time for your team to design.
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Content management systems (CMS) help AEC firms reduce errors in their designs and construction documents.
Leveraging your free Channels
Similar to playlists in music streaming services, Channels in AVAIL are empty containers for content and can be organized around various concepts such as content types, job functions, teams, industries, or studios.
Channels are completely customizable and versatile. A single Channel can contain multiple types of content that are then broken down by a system of firm-specific tags and filters to enhance searchability and content discovery.
An effective way to utilize the two free Channels is to create one Channel with specific project content and another with general resources. A strong tagging strategy and visual overviews from customized thumbnails will help your firm get the most out of this free tier.
More efficiency-enhancing CMS features
If you decide you would like to expand your library beyond the 3,000-file, two-Channel limit, AVAIL has additional paid tiers that can amp up your firm’s content management strategy and automate manual tasks.
Explore an overview of AVAIL’s Enterprise tier.
In addition to features like analytics, bulk tagging, enhanced organizational tools, Harvest capabilities, and Stream automations, paid customers also enjoy account-specific Success services to help your team achieve your content management goals.
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Paid tiers of AVAIL give admins the power to track firm-wide content management trends through AVAIL Analytics.
Thousands of free Revit families from trusted manufacturers
Searching for the right Revit families on manufacturer sites can be cumbersome and potentially insert errors and inconsistencies into projects.
Make sure your team is always pulling from a trusted source for high-quality manufacturer files with the free and easy-to-use AVAIL Select Channels.
The AVAIL Select MEP Channel, for example, currently hosts thousands of high-quality Revit Family files from over 40 industry-leading mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) manufacturers. Now, you can easily find and download Daikin Revit families for air conditioners, furnaces, and heat pumps in the same place you can grab over 5,000 trusted MEP Revit files from other manufacturers like NIBCO, Meuller, and Bell & Gossett—all for free!
We also hope to become the best place for free Revit architectural files with the launch of the AVAIL Select Architectural Channel hosting Kalwall, Legrand-Chief, Legrand Da-Lite Revit Family files, among others.
Explore this exciting AEC solution and how to gain free access.
The AVAIL Select MEP Channel hosts Revit family files from over 40 manufacturers.
Find what you need fast with free Revit add-in Project Navigator
Between all the Revit elements in Revit project files, it becomes increasingly difficult to navigate projects over time. Questions like ‘Did you already bring the Revit Family file into the project?’ 'How to find equipment in Revit?' and ‘Where is that in the project?’ are common among AEC professionals.
AVAIL’s Project Navigator Revit add-in is a companion to Revit’s native Project Browser and helps navigate what can become a daunting volume of information in a Revit project.
Now, you can easily search and browse Revit elements within a project or conveniently search your firm’s AVAIL library to find the element you would like to bring into the project.
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AVAIL’s Project Navigator for Revit makes it easy to find equipment files and more in a Revit project.
About AVAIL
Founded in 2016 as a solution for architecture and engineering firms to find the information they need faster, AVAIL creates software for the global architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. AVAIL’s content management system (CMS) platform and Revit application tools help designers and engineers take control of their intricate network of files in one visual, streamlined solution. AVAIL’s customers include industry leaders Gensler, Perkins&Will, IMEG, LEO A DALY, and Populous.
