At Revit Market, we’re getting ready to do many promotions to customers. These promotions will be centered around the week of June 1, when Revit Market will officially be out of the Beta phase. Here’s what will be going down in the next few weeks:

AUGI | AEC Edge magazine. In conjunction with Autodesk Seek, Revit Market is running a half-page ad in this new publication. It will be sent out as a PDF, available as an online magazine for 6 months, and then printed for distribution at Autodesk University in December. The magazine is scheduled to come out by June 1.

AUGI | AEC Edge magazine ad

Publisher landing pages. All contest winners and top publishers are eligible for a custom landing page that links right to all the publisher’s products at Revit Market. You can link to this landing page from your website or email. Publishers with email lists of 50+ Revit users are also eligible if the link is sent out to their mailing list. If you want your own landing page, email me or reply to this post. No reasonable offer refused!

Click the image and see what happens!

Banner ad at RevitCity.com. Yes, they know we’re doing this, and they’re okay with it. We’re all friends.

Press release. I’ll send out a press release announcing the end of Beta, but wouldn’t it be nice if I could also boast 3000 products for sale? We’re a few hundred short, though… if you’ve got any more to go up, now is the time!

On the Revit Market splash page are six buttons for quick searches of RFA files.

If you want your families to show up in one of these searches, just enter the caption keyword in the product’s Tags field. For example, if you’re publishing a desk, put in furniture as one of the product’s tags. If the caption is plural (as in Windows), put the singular form, window. The tags are not case-sensitive.

After you save the edited product, it will start showing up in the appropriate splash page search within a few minutes.

Now that the contest excitement is over, we can focus on other ways to build the Revit Market catalog. So here’s what I have in mind:

Revit Market is now offering pre-certification. This means that we check your families first, and publish only the ones that pass certification. For the rest, we’ll send you notes on what needs to be fixed.

I know you have a bunch of families hanging around your hard drive, and when you get around to it, you’ll clean them up and publish them. I know this is time-consuming, and that you’re busy.

So let us do the work for you! You’ll get some families published, plus you’ll have a tidy list of what needs to be fixed in the others.

Pre-Certification is intended for libraries of 50 or more families, but I’m open to offers. Let me know what I can do for you.

Michele

Recently, some of you reported difficulties in editing assets, where you got an error when trying to save. The good news is, the error has been fixed. The bad news is, any edits you’ve made have been lost.

• All your published assets are still there, but any unsaved edits are gone. You can simply re-edit the item and save it.
• All files in My Files are still there.
• Any items in Drafts need to be removed from the Drafts folder. You’ll need to start the publishing process for these over again. All the files in My Files are still there, though, so it’s a simple matter of starting the publishing process and choosing the file again.

If you try to publish an asset and it’s giving you trouble, remove it from Drafts and start again. As always, please let me know if you run into any trouble.

I greatly appreciate your reporting bugs to me, and helping us make Revit Market as useful as possible. Your feedback is what makes it happen, so keep it coming!

The Revit Family Contest winners have been announced! Check out our winning talent here.

Many thanks to all who entered our Revit Family Contest! The finalists have been posted on the contest page.

Winners will be announced on the same page on April 15.

Tuesday, March 31 marks the end of the Revit Family Contest. The idea behind the contest was to get more content for Revit Market while giving you the chance to show off what you’ve got. Not only do you have a chance to win the first prize of $2500 in three categories, you also get ongoing income from sales of your families.

The contest requires each entrant to publish original families at Revit Market. What does this mean?

• Publish = Put up for sale
• Original = You created it yourself, or own the rights to it

Publishing at Revit Market is free. Entering the contest is free. A no-brainer, no?

This is how it works: You create a project using some of your original families. Then you publish the families for sale at Revit Market, and send me some screen caps or renderings of the project, showing the families in action.

Revit Family Contest entry from RPA Design

For more information on how to enter the contest, visit the Revit Family Contest page.

As we cruise into the last couple of weeks of the Revit contest, we have some exciting additions to the Revit Market catalog.

Longtime subscription service RevitComponents has signed on with Revit Market, publishing their library of 250 top-notch families. Their selection ranges from casework to furniture, plumbing, and shelving units. Look for their products at Revit Market in a couple of weeks.

In the meantime, the contest entries are starting to come in. Perhaps you’d like to win $2500, just maybe? Then check out our Revit Contest page. Deadline is March 31.

Trying to categorize Revit families is a tough business! Is it 2D or 3D? Low, medium or high detail? Will it render in 3D? What else do you need to know about a family before you load or download?

Make your voice heard by taking our Revit Family Attributes Survey. One respondent will be selected at random to win a free TurboSquid t-shirt. But more than that, you’ll get the satisfaction of knowing you helped make the Revit community a better place.

Michele

Yesterday we posted an upgrade to Revit Market. New features include:

• Certified assets are marked as such on the item’s full preview (the individual view that shows all thumbnails, description, etc.)
• You can limit a search to Certified assets only.
• My Account tab now holds all member information such as sales and payment info–you no longer have to go to TurboSquid.com to find this information.

There were also numerous small improvements under the hood to make Revit Market more efficient. If you tried to publish a file and got an error, try it again now that we’ve worked out some of the kinks.