Free MEP Clash-Point Hole-Cutting Tool
Autodesk Revit add-on Cut Opening Free provides a set of tools for creating and cutting openings in building construction.
- Cut Opening Free automatically creates openings where ducts, pipes, cable trays or conduits intersect walls, floors, ceilings or roofs;
- Adds opening offset if needed;
- User can change the type and shape of opening;
- The cut offset and shape of opening can be locked;
- Ability to change/delete existing openings if needed.
| Features of Comparable Products | T4R add-on Cut Opening Free | BIM Solution Cut Opening |
| Creates openings where ducts, pipes, cable trays or conduits intersect walls, floors, roofs or ceilings | √ | √ |
| Creates openings where ducts, pipes, cable trays or conduits intersect structural beams and columns | - | √ |
| Adds opening offset if needed | √ | √ |
| User can change the type and shape of opening | √ | √ |
| The cut offset and shape of opening can be locked | √ | √ |
| Possibility to change/delete existing openings if needed | √ | √ |
| Works with linked files | - | √ |
| Updates openings if there are any changes made in the project | - | √ |
| Shows the state of changes (deleted, created, create new, change host, change position, change dimension, change shape) | - | √ |
| Possibility to eliminate small openings | - | √ |
| Supports IFC Ducts and Pipes | - | √ |
| Automated navigator and automated section box allow to see elements where the openings are or will be created | - | √ |
| Possibility to automatically join openings by predefined rule | - | √ |
| Allows to include intersections if ducts, pipes, cable trays or conduits are not going through walls, floors and ceilings, but just touching them | - | √ |
| Possibility to join/unjoin several selected openings | - | √ |
| Possibility to reverse the grouping tree and to filter openings that are on specific walls, floors or ceilings | - | √ |
| Adds openings to the structural walls if architects and structural engineers work with separate wall layers | - | √ |
| Works in modeless mode. Modeless option allows to work with Cut Opening dialog as with a separate application | - | √ |
