This guide tells you how to setup Night Runner on your project for the first time.

Who is this setup guide for?

Either:

  1. The first person to 'setup' Night Runner for your project. Or...
  2. A BIM Manager admin (or managers) who will be running Comparisons between Type Files and Project Files. Or...
  3. Someone setting up a Remote Desktop/ Server to schedule a Comparison run at regular intervals (for example, every night).

Normally this is only a small handful of users in an organization, most users will need to follow the simple setup instructions instead.

Prerequisites

  1. Downloaded and Installed the latest Toolbox.
  2. A Toolbox license key - ask your manager to provide this if you have already bought licenses for your company, otherwise speak to the Reope team.
  3. Get the latest version of the Revit Batch Processor. If you have it already, great! If not you can download it from here. (The lowest supported version is v 1.6.0)
  4. We leverage PowerBI Desktop for analytics, so make sure you have it installed on your machine if you want to make use of the Analytics dashboards! You can download from here.

Install and activate the Add-In

First you will need to complete the setup guidance for individual users to install and activate Night Runner.

Configure the Night Runner Add-In

First things first, we must configure the Settings of the Night Runner Add-In. You can access these Settings via the Add-Ins tab of a Revit ribbon (after you have installed Night Runner), and click on Settings.

For both tabs of Settings, we include a full guide to help you understand what each Setting does and what you need to change.

Push and Pull tab

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