Project Protections

Proactive Protection, in Real Time

Take Command of Your Revit Experience

Minor Revit errors can add up, leading to major headaches for BIM managers and projects that go off the rails. Guardian’s comprehensive project protections mitigate in-the-moment command mistakes before they turn into bigger issues.

Eliminate Rework

Fixing end-user mistakes, usually made innocently, often requires BIM managers and senior team members to spend valuable — and costly — time away from other high-impact work. Project protections prevent many mistakes from happening.

Manage Revit Standards

Even the most diligent end-users may deviate from your firm’s Revit standards and best practices. Project protections help you manage those standards and assure consistency, best practices, and quality.

Generate Data

Our project protections are more than just helpful reminders for end-users — these notifications produce data for BIM managers that they can use to assess model performance and drive strategy.

Educate in the Moment

End-users may not realize that a simple action could throw off the model or run counter to firm standards. Real-time notifications guide users to best practices that, ultimately, make their jobs easier and more successful.

Approved Content Sources

Keeping Standards in the Families

Firms go to great lengths to build extensive Revit family libraries, and your clients might bring their own families to projects. Approved Content Sources manage which content your end-users should be sourcing — and which they shouldn’t.

Guardian offers wide flexibility in using Approved Content Sources protection; firms can tailor rules and responses, directing users to preferred libraries and optionally providing them a way to ask for content otherwise missing from their libraries.

Non-approved content Guide Command Message

Copy and Array Protections

Stop Dangerous Duplication

Copying or arraying certain model elements — even unintentionally — inevitably reduces model performance and creates headaches down the line. Guardian gives BIM managers the ability to restrict detrimental copying and arraying.

We pre-load our Copy and Array Protections with rules that address the elements that most commonly negatively impact model performance when copied. As with many Guardian features, these protections are fully customizable.

Delete Protections

Avoid the ‘Butterfly Effect’

End-users may delete something on one side of a Revit model and not realize the repercussions on the other side. Guardian safeguards your model from unintended consequences by flagging accidental deletions of protected elements.

Delete Protections are preset with rules to help prevent the most common deletion issues, and you can also customize rules to your needs and best practices.

Admin email notification when a user deletes Revit elements

Group Protections

So Happy Together ... or Apart

Revit groups can be frustrating when elements don’t play nice with each other. Group Protections allow BIM managers to determine what works well and what doesn’t, then set rules to notify users with a customized message when a prohibited element ends up in a group.

Group Protections can be set to require end-users to leave a comment on why they are grouping something you might not otherwise want grouped, or require a password to go through with the grouping.

Mirror Protetions

Reflect Success

Elements with specific orientation needs, such as VAVs, must be mirrored correctly or not at all. Mirror Protections ensure things are properly flipped and notify users not to attempt the command, per your modeling best practices.

Misuse of mirroring in Revit can cause coordination and scheduling issues down the line if not caught and corrected. Mirror Protections can be applied to specific families, and customized messages can be written for when end-users are notified.

Hide Elements in View Protections

Have You Seen This Element?

End-users waste hours looking for elements they’ve hidden within Revit but can’t find. Rather than outright discouraging use of the maligned Revit hide command, Hide Elements in View Protections promote consistency and best practices — and keep things from becoming lost.

Protections can be rules-based and/or view-based, and notifications can be customized to support end-users if they choose to use the command.

Protected Families

Never Go Against the Family

Firms likely don’t want end-users tinkering with or overwriting established company standard families, but it still happens, often unintentionally, and often outside the model environment. Guardian prevents this from happening and can provide insight into why users are trying to overwrite a family.

Protected Families can be customized to suggest end-users save to another family or leave a comment if improvements to the family are needed. Rules can also be applied to only specific families.

Protected Pins

Keep Completed Work Completed

Revit’s pins are supposed to keep elements from being moved, but it still happens anyway, potentially causing issues later. Protected Pins overlay Revit’s pin command and notify end-users when they try undoing a pin.

Protected Pins can be applied to any element that a native Revit pin is available, including Linked Models, Project Base Point, Sheets, Survey Point, Viewports, and Views.

Frequently Asked Questions

Here are answers to commonly asked questions about Guardian’s project protections.

How are customizable?

Besides setting the conditions that govern when a notification occurs, administrators can customize the Protection Mode to determine whether a notification simply appears to the end-user, requests a comment to explain why the user is attempting the command, or requires a password to execute the command.

Are administrators notified when end-users attempt a protected command?

Yes! In addition to showing up in real time within Guardian’s Project Central, administrator notifications can be enabled by simply checking Send Email in the rules for the specific protection.

How do Command Messages work with ?

Guardian’s Command Messages provide the means to automatically generate customized notifications, sent directly through Revit, when a protected command is attempted. End-users are more likely to see the notification this way and apply the direction to the current model as well as future decisions.

Won’t Revit already warn me if I try deleting something I shouldn’t?

Technically, yes, but end-users are already conditioned to ignore the yellow warning box and not always super reliable. Guardian’s Delete Protections ensures both the end-user and the administrator (if desired) are notified when a deletion will affect other parts of the model.

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