Broutek - Revit Architecture, Revit MEP and Revit Structure Family Content. Buy & Download custom, made to order Revit Families or choose from our Revit Family Library

People keep asking me about our new Family Packs and how they work - what they cover, how long they last, etc. I was going to write about a few ideas we’re developing for enterprise tools, but since I think the packs offer fantastic value to our customers, I thought I should take advantage of the extra real estate to clarify all their ins and outs.

Okay, let’s say you buy the Family Pack 50. That means your account gets credited with a license to order and download up to 50 Revit families from Broutek. I say “order and download” because you’re not limited to the families already in our library. If we don’t have a family you need, you simply submit your request and we build the family for you at no extra charge, usually within 48 hours.

But the real value of our packs is in their fixed pricing per family, which can add up to huge savings over buying families one at a time. Using the 50 Pack as an example again, our current price of $2,400 breaks down to $48 per family. That’s about 33% less expensive than almost any individual family you can find in our Library. If you purchased our largest Family Pack of 500, you’d be saving roughly 70% per family. And your Family Pack never expires, so you don’t have to worry about whether you’ll need new families today, next week, or next month. Packs are perfect for longer-term projects, firms with full-time Revit teams, in fact pretty much anyone who will be working in Revit on a regular basis.

Our goal at Broutek is to provide customers with fast, flexible and affordable access to high-quality content, so you can use Revit instead of making Revit. I think our Family Packs are a great step in that direction, and I hope I’ve convinced you to give them a try. If not, then I hope at least you’re not still scratching your head about them!

Jose Fandos
CTO Broutek Ltd

2007 has been a big year for all of us at Broutek. We’ve gone from idea to launch, and worked hard to create a full-service website backed by an expert team of Revit modelers. Looking back over the past 9 months, we have come a long way, and our expectations have been greatly exceeded, thanks in large part to your interest and feedback. Exhibiting at AU 2007 was a particularly exciting moment, and one that offered us the wonderful opportunity of meeting many of you face-to-face for the first time.

In the year to come, we aim to continue improving our service — the breadth of families available from our library, the turnaround time for filling family requests, and the ease of using our site. We will also be working on providing visitors with additional resources on Revit and BIM, as well as incorporating customer reviews of content. It is our hope that Broutek can help make your 2008 a little less stressful, and quite a bit more productive. We look forward to being in touch and continuing to serve all of your Revit content needs.

On behalf of the Broutek Team, I wish you a prosperous 2008.

Jose Fandos
CTO Broutek Ltd

We’re pleased to announce that Broutek will be exhibiting at next week’s Autodesk University in Las Vegas. Come see how our product families can unlock the power of Revit, and get a 50% discount on any of our new family packs.

You’ll find us at booth 524 in the exhibit hall, where Managing Director, Chris Milford, and Chief Technology Officer, Jose Fandos, will be on-hand to answer questions and share their enthusiasm about the future of Broutek and BIM. We look forward to seeing you there!

-The Broutek Team

In just 2 weeks, Broutek will be heading to the Autodesk University 2007 in Las Vegas. We’re excited to be meeting some of our early customers and manufacturer partners face-to-face, and welcome the chance to talk with anyone interested in our service or in the potential of BIM content. We are staying at the MGM Grand – if you’re headed to Vegas, leave a message for us and we will contact you.

We’re now in our third week of selling downloadable Revit families, and are adding new families daily. Of course the best way to expand our library is with your content requests, so if we don’t have what you’re looking for, let us know and we’ll make it for you. No extra cost, no obligation to buy, and usually within 24hrs.

As always, we welcome your questions and comments. So drop us a line and tell us what you think.

Until next time,

The Broutek Team

As you may have noticed, we have been busy updating our website during the past few weeks, resulting in some broken links. As we are streamlining our operations and growing our staff, we have also got a new team dedicated to improving the user experience on the website. They will better manage the changes and updates, so you will soon be seeing more content and new features added to our website.

On the subject of content, we now have approximately 320 families developed/uploaded/under QA (Hattersley, TA, George Fischer, Grundfos, Wilo, McQuay and others.) So far, we have uploaded short of 160 families to the website. We have also completely developed the Vitaulic family range, including pipework, fittings and flanged connectors to flanged fittings - and this is now fully operational within Revit.

Recently we have teamed up with Autodesk to consult on the requirements for the UK localization and “countryfication” of Revit MEP. (more…)

Welcome to our updated site. Last couple months have been pretty busy and we kept postponing the update of the site.
(more…)