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Timber Collection: For framing fast in Revit

Streamline wooden structure design in Autodesk® Revit®

Applicable to light wood framing, SIP, and CLT projects, Timber Collection automates design and documentation for prefabricated and onsite construction. With tools that simplify collaboration and automate up to 95% of manual work in Revit, you can complete projects up to 3x faster.

Timber Collection includes:

  • Wood Framing: Wall, floor, and roof framing made fast and simple

  • CLT Panels: High-quality cross-laminated timber modeling

  • SIP Panels: Advanced automation for designing structures of structural insulated panels

  • Panel Packer: Logistics planning in Revit made easy

  • Core Collection: Smarter Revit workflows with tools like Cut Opening, Smart Browser, Classification System, and more

All the framing power you need

Timber Collection includes all the features of Core Collection plus specialized industry solutions for prefabrication and wooden construction. Effortless high-level detailing, dynamically updated frames, automated shop drawings, and precise clash detection keep your projects on track. From architects to structural engineers, Timber Collection simplifies every step of framing in Revit, ensuring seamless workflows and high-quality results. Read more about each solution below.

Key benefits of the Timber Collection

  • Automation of design and documentation. Streamline your workflows for faster project completion and more time for creative and strategic planning.

  • Accurate, detailed BIM models. Confidently rely on your 3D model for material estimation, planning, and execution, minimizing the need for rework.

  • Minimize errors. Leverage automated updates and rule-based modifications for error-free results.

  • Multi-framing capabilities. Manage complex, large-scale designs, ensuring consistency across different project components.

  • Enhanced efficiency and time savings. Achieve faster turnaround times, keeping projects on schedule and within budget – critical in the fast-paced construction industry.

  • Improved coordination and clash detection. A single source of truth enhances communication, reduces misinterpretations, and fosters a more cohesive project environment.

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Industry solutions and Revit add-ins in the Timber Collection

3D illustrative model of a simple house composed of timber floor, wall, and roof panels

Wood Framing

Upgrade your construction design process with our flexible and efficient Wood Framing software. Made for architects and engineers who use Revit, this BIM software enables rapid and precise designing of timber wall, floor, and roof frames, including trusses, rafters, and prefabricated panels.

  • Vast time-savings thanks to automated design, documentation, and framing modifications

  • Highly detailed modeling and updating of building modules and components

  • Streamlines all processes from design to documentation, allowing for optimal design decisions

  • Automated documentation makes tedious tasks a breeze and reduces the potential for error

  • Features multi-framing and framing in groups for large-scale projects

  • Element numbering system for managing project-wide parameters

Learn more about Wood Framing

We can now produce extremely accurate detailed BIM models and drawings and export exact sheathing and fixing schedules.

Thomas Woolley Architectural Technician, Carbon Dynamic, UK

CLT Panels

This BIM software supercharges your ability to design mass timber framing in Revit with unprecedented speed and accuracy. It's time to take your modern wood construction projects to the next level.

  • Craft exquisite cross-laminated timber structures in Revit with ease and precision

  • Streamline your processes from design to documentation and save time with automatic updates

  • Handle highly-detailed projects effortlessly with project-wide parameters

  • Accurate BIM data for precise material quantities, part lists, and schedules

  • Tailor-make your CLT panel structures with customizable rules to meet project-specific requirements

  • Say goodbye to errors and tedious tasks with automated documentation

Learn more about CLT Panels

3D model of a CLT panel commercial or residential building

Instead of picking one wall and having to frame it, then clicking another wall and framing that, I can select a bunch for framing with one click.

Andrew Fenner Preconstruction Coordinator, Graves Lumber, USA
3D model of a house composed of SIP panels

SIP Panels

By enabling efficient design and documentation and providing specialized sample Revit families and configurations, SIP Panels will simplify and speed up your workflows for designing buildings with structural insulated panels.

  • Design SIP building projects with high-LOD BIM models

  • Fast, accurate modeling and updating of building modules and components

  • Accurate BIM data for precise material quantities, part lists, and schedules

  • Precise material quantities, part lists, and schedules with automated updates

  • Use predefined rules to create and split SIP panels for detailed models

  • Automate documentation, including views, tags, dimensions, and sheets

Learn more about SIP Panels

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Panel Packer

This Revit add-in optimizes stack planning and space usage, streamlines deliveries, and reduces costs associated with modular construction logistics.

  • Efficiently organizes prefabricated building components to optimize space utilization

  • Facilitates effective production and construction schedules

  • Allows for highly customizable configurations for diverse stacking situations and truck sizes

  • Enhances collaboration through fully-native Revit functionality

  • User-friendly interface

  • Saves time by allowing sharing and reuse of stacking configurations

Learn more about Panel Packer

3D cutaway model of a timber framed house with a stack of framing elements beside it.

Core Collection

The Core Collection is a suite of Revit plugins designed to streamline workflows and enhance BIM project management, making it ideal for architects, engineers, and BIM managers. Its primary purpose is to minimize manual tasks and reduce errors, providing powerful, standards-based productivity tools for Revit that ensure simpler Revit content management, direct access to classification standards, documentation generation, and more.

Learn about the Core Collection

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CNC Exporters for Timber Collection – a perfect match

Do you need to export timber-framed designs to a CNC machine or CAD/CAM production line? Our CNC Exporters are fully compatible with the framing solutions in the Timber Collection, so you can export directly from Revit to the machine of your choice.

  • Simpler, streamlined manufacturing processes

  • High-precision export to CNC machines

  • Seamless integration with BIM software

  • Data quality assurance for error-free manufacturing

  • Hassle-free software with reliable customer support

  • Wide range of CNC machine-readable formats from the most popular machinery manufacturers, including Hundegger, Weinmann, Randek, EasyFrame, MiTek, Spida

Note: CNC Exporters are not included in Timber Collection. Available for separate purchase.

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Compatible with

Autodesk® Revit® 2025, 2024, 2023

System requirements

Operating system: 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 10 or Windows 11