About Including Properties in Revit Exports

Learn about including Inventor properties in Revit exports as Shared Parameters.

What's New: 2026

As a manufacturer of products used in the AEC industry you may want to include various properties in your exported RVT models that are used in Revit schedules. The Include Properties command provides access to and selection of the properties you can export in the RVT file. The property selection persists with the Inventor file.

With the Include Properties command there are four groups from which you can include any number of properties:

Custom iProperties, exported as Revit Type Parameters
Standard iProperties, exported as Revit Type Parameters
Instance Properties, exported as Revit Instance Parameters
Factory Properties, exported as Revit Instance Parameters

For each property group, the properties are collected from all parts and assemblies in the active file and presented in alphabetical order. You select the properties you want included in the export.

Note: To modify or add iProperties, switch to the Modeling Environment, then right-click the component and select iProperties near the bottom of the list.

Property Group labels display the number of properties selected for export with the total number of properties available for export. For example, Custom iProperties (3/18) denotes 3 selected properties from an available list of 18 custom iProperties.

Individual properties display the number of instances where the property is used.

You can specify a Default (Revit) Category to apply to all components that are assigned <None> for their Revit Category iProperty.

Revit Shared Parameters

To add value and leverage Inventor properties in Revit, some preliminary effort is involved. For example, in architectural designs schedules are used to specify things such as walls, doors, windows, and so on. When providing mechanical designs for architectural use you may want to provide essential properties that are included and displayed in schedules. Revit has a feature called shared parameters which, when used in Revit templates, can display properties in a schedule. The linked file properties, such as an Inventor RVT export, populate the shared parameters.

The architectural firm (if a Revit customer) can provide a Revit template with the shared parameters that are used in their design schedules. In Inventor, you create properties with names matching those in the Revit template and use Include Properties to export those properties.

Inventor Properties to Revit Shared Parameters workflow

All Inventor properties are exported as Revit Shared Parameters in the RVT created by Simplify & Export. You can create schedules using all properties in the same RVT file exported by Inventor.

Note: Matching names aren't required if schedules are only needed in the exported RVT file.

To schedule Inventor exported parameters in another RVT file that's linked to the Inventor exported RVT:

Use Revit to set up shared parameters in a Revit template. Ideally, you could request the architect's template.
In Inventor, create property names in your components that match the shared parameter names.
Use Include Properties to select the properties to export.
When using the Simplify & Export command, select the Revit template from step 1 and the property values should carry through to the schedule of the master Revit Project in use.
After linking the exported RVT with another Revit RVT (for example, containing the building), the linked Revit RVT can access the Inventor exported RVT shared properties.