AddoREV for Revit — National Bar-Bending Schedules

Revit already schedules reinforcement, and that schedule is already live. The catch is what it produces: Revit’s native schedule is a generic element table — it will not output a proper bar-bending schedule to a national standard, and it has none of the detailer workflow around it. AddoREV does. It reads your model’s rebar and gives you a true bar-bending schedule in the shape-code standard you work to — BS 8666, AS 3600, SANS 282 and more — plus the tools detailers use every day: Re-Number a whole member in one click, change a bar’s shape or size from the schedule, send it to Excel, and full revision control — compare revisions and tag the changes on your sheets.

Revit already schedules rebar — here’s what AddoREV does differently

What you need	Revit’s native schedule	AddoREV
National bending-schedule format	A generic element table — you can customise its columns, but it can’t be formatted as a national bar-bending schedule.	Outputs a true bar-bending schedule to any national standard — BS 8666, AS 3600, SANS 282 and more — in the correct shape-code format, ready for the bender.
Re-Number	Renumber a partition in the Reinforcement Numbering dialog (set the start number, remove gaps, pad digits), or edit numbers by hand.	Re-Number a whole member in one click, straight from the schedule — in the order you’ve arranged it — and insert a bar between marks with automatic re-sequencing.
Change shape or size	Edit each rebar element in the model, one at a time or with a multiple selection.	Change a bar’s shape or size straight from the schedule — the change writes back to the rebar.
Send to Excel	Delimited text or CSV export of the raw schedule.	One-click Excel workbook in your national schedule layout, one worksheet per member, print-ready.
Compare revisions	No native schedule snapshots and no built-in way to compare issues.	Save snapshots and compare vs live or rev-to-rev with colour-coded changed / added / removed diffs.
Tag revision	Revision clouds are manual — no automatic schedule change-tracking on the drawing.	Tag every changed cell on the plotted sheet against a previous version, automatically.

Shown running in Revit 2025. Open the palette from Add-Ins → Show Rebar Schedule, then click Update to load your model’s bars.

The tools, one by one

1. Selecting Bars via the Dock

Turn the schedule into a navigation tool. Tick Select Members, click any row, and AddoREV selects the matching reinforcement bar in the model.

1. Open the Rebar Schedule palette (Add-Ins → Show Rebar Schedule) and click Update.
2. Tick the Select Members checkbox.
3. Click a bar-mark row in the grid.
4. The matching Structural Rebar is selected in the view — the ribbon switches to Modify | Structural Rebar and the Properties panel fills in.

💡 Tip: One row can represent several identical bars — all of them are selected at once. Works from a 3D view or from a sheet.

2. Apply a “Nr of” per Element

Detail a member once, build it many times. Enter how many identical members exist — the Nr of value — and every total scales automatically.

1. Select the member so its bars fill the grid.
2. Click the Nr of cell (first column) and type the number of identical members, e.g. 2.
3. Press Enter — the count applies to the whole member and Total Nr, Total Length and Total Weight recalculate instantly.

💡 Tip: The count is stored per-member inside the .rvt, so it is fast even on large members and persists when you reopen the model.

3. Re-Number Bar Marks

Re-sequence a member’s bar marks into a clean, gap-free run starting from any number you choose — written straight back to the model.

1. Select the rows to renumber (Shift-click a range, or Ctrl+A for the whole member).
2. Right-click the grid → Re-Number.
3. Enter the Start Bar Mark (e.g. 201) and click OK.
4. The marks are rewritten in display order (201, 202, 203…) and committed to the model.

💡 Tip: A variable-length set shown as 219a / 219b / 219c consumes a single base number, and leading zeros are preserved (05 → 06 … 09 → 10).

4. Inserting a Bar between Bar Marks

Slot a new bar into the middle of an existing sequence. AddoREV bumps the following marks up by one to make room, keeping the numbering unique and continuous.

1. Give the newly added bar a temporary mark so it’s easy to find.
2. Select the run of bars from the insertion point down to the end of the member.
3. Right-click → Re-Number and start one higher than the insertion mark — this shifts every following mark up by one and frees the insertion mark.
4. Give the new bar that freed mark. It now sits neatly between its neighbours.

💡 Tip: Duplicate marks flash red via the error check while the sequence is momentarily clashing, and clear the instant it’s unique again.

5. Send to Excel

Export the schedule to a formatted .xlsx workbook in your national bending-schedule layout — one worksheet per member — in a couple of clicks. No Excel install needed to create the file.

1. Right-click the member list (or the grid) → Send to Excel.
2. Choose a location and name in the Save As dialog.
3. AddoREV writes the workbook and offers to open it.

💡 Tip: You get one tab per member, the full column set, a frozen bold header, landscape print setup, and numbers stored as real numbers so they sum and sort correctly.

6. Plot a Custom Schedule and Update It

Draw a full national-standard bar-bending schedule table straight onto a Revit sheet — then re-plot to update it in place, without moving anything.

1. Open the target sheet and select the member.
2. Click the Schedule button.
3. Pick the placement points for the schedule, the length-totals table and the reinforcement-mass table.
4. AddoREV draws the tables, splitting a long schedule across several pages.
5. After editing bars, click Schedule again — it updates the same tables in place.

💡 Tip: The placement points are remembered with the project, so in-place updates never re-prompt you to pick a spot. Mass Table and Length Table plot those summaries on their own.

7. Revision Compare

Save snapshots of the whole schedule, then compare any snapshot against the live model — or against another snapshot — with every change colour-coded.

1. On the Revisions tab, click Save Rev to capture a snapshot (groups, bars, total kg, timestamp).
2. Click vs Live to diff a snapshot against the current model…
3. …or use Compare Revisions to diff two saved snapshots (Base → Revised).
4. The read-only viewer highlights Changed, Added and Removed cells, filterable by member.

💡 Tip: Snapshots never auto-invalidate — they’re a reliable record of each issue. Set as Prev designates the snapshot used by Tag Revision.

8. Tag Revision

Flag every changed cell on the plotted sheet. AddoREV diffs the live schedule against a nominated previous version and re-styles the revised cells so they stand out.

1. Save a baseline revision and click Set as Prev on the Revisions tab.
2. Make your changes, then re-plot the schedule so the sheet is current.
3. Click Tag Revision.
4. AddoREV re-styles every changed cell on the sheet and reports the count (e.g. “Tagged 254 changed cell(s) + 34 summary cell(s)”).

💡 Tip: It tags both the main schedule and the reinforcement-mass summary table, using styling derived from the table’s own text style so it matches the drawing.

AddoREV is the Revit companion to AddoBAR, our reinforcement detailing suite for AutoCAD, BricsCAD and ZWCAD. Questions or a trial? Get in touch with the AddoSOFT team.