icheck – Accessibility

Once you click on the icheck for Building icon in the Add-in section, the plugin will be opened on the right side in a dockable window. You can resize, move, or close the dockable window the same as any other dockable window inside Revit.

Account

Account menu details can be accessed by clicking the account icon located on the main menu. The account menu provides various functionalities to edit your account details, take a free trial, or subscribe to the premium version of the plug-in.

Help

Help menu details can be accessed by clicking the help icon located in the main menu. The help section contains various sub-section with required help information available for icheck for Building.

Settings

Settings menu helps to select the compliance code and defined custom values for shared parameters, room, and area tags.

Spaces tab

Spaces tab contains functionality to identify spaces and objects, select all or a few of them for checking the rule compliance. You can highlight, search, and filter the spaces and objects

Rules tab

The rules tab contains all the accessibility rules you can check. The rules are filtered based on the type of spaces and objects selected, the BIM information available etc. You can also view the model preparation guide for each rule.

Check tab

Once the rules are selected in the rules tab, check tab contains details about selected rules and a method to select the manual inputs required to check the rule. Click on [I] button for inputs and [E] button for providing rule exceptions.

Rule tab

Result tab contains all compliance and non-compliance results. This tab contains various functionalities to work with the rule results.

Rule inputs

The rule checking process needs a few manual inputs. Using input dialog, you can provide the inputs you wish to consider for checking the rule compliance.

Rule exceptions

Some accessibility rules have certain exceptions. You can provide the rules exceptions using the exception dialog.

Highlight element

The highlight element button is available at multiple locations. This toggle button helps to display the space/object in the Revit graphics window.

Start highlight from model

Highlight from the model button helps to identify the space/object by selecting it from the Revit graphics window. This toggle button will highlight the selected element in the Revit model.

End highlight from model

End highlight from the model button will cancel the highlight mode. The highlight background will be removed from all the highlighted elements.

Refresh plug-in

Once you click the refresh plug-in button, the plug-in will restart and go to its default settings. After refresh, any current state of the plug-in will be removed.

Scroll to top

The content of many menus typically extends beyond the available height to render the content. If you have scrolled down on the page, you can use the scroll to top button to move to the top of the page.

Clear selection

At multiple locations in the plug-in, data is presented in the format of a selection tree. A clear selection option is very useful to clear all the selections quickly.

Filter results

The filter results button helps to apply various filters to the displayed results. Click on the button to open a dialog and set various result filters.

Reset results view

The reset result view button helps to remove any applied results filter and display the results using the default result view configuration.

Rules result view

Once this result view is activated, the results are displayed with the rule as a parent containing all the compliant and non-compliant spaces and objects.

Spaces and objects result view

Once this result view is activated, the results show spaces and objects as a parent containing all compliant and non-compliant rules.