Select a floor, a room or a loop of walls, and Arka lays out a house
inside it and furnishes the rooms. Arka’s models run on your
computer: nothing about your project leaves it.
An Arka tab on Revit’s ribbon, with four
buttons: Generate plan, Furnish rooms, Live and Licence.
Generate plan
Select a floor, a room, or a closed loop of walls or of model or
detail lines. Arka offers two to eight layouts inside it, for a
house or an apartment, each shown as a furnished plan: the rooms,
the walls, the doors’ swings, the windows and the furniture
seen from above. Pick one and click
Build: walls, doors and windows from your
project’s families, room separation lines, named rooms,
balcony railings and the furniture. One Undo removes it.
Furnish rooms
Select rooms, or furnish every room on the plan’s level.
Arka guesses each room’s type from its name, and you can
correct it and change its furniture list: tick pieces in or out,
change how many, add one. Furnishing a room again replaces only
the pieces Arka placed before, and each room’s list is kept
in the model.
Live
Turn it on, and a room Arka furnished is furnished again when its
walls, doors or windows move. The furniture moves as little as the
walls did.
Good to know
The furniture is DirectShapes in Revit’s Furniture category.
Build takes its doors and windows from the families loaded in your
project.
Generate works on one storey at a time, inside an outline with
square corners.
Live follows rooms furnished on their own: an open plan that
Generate built (living, kitchen and dining furnished as one) is
furnished again with Furnish rooms.
There are no drawing tools and no roof: Arka works from
Revit’s own floors, walls, rooms, lines, doors and windows.
On your computer
Arka’s models ship with the add-in and run on your computer.
There is no Arka server in between and no charge per use, and
nothing about your project leaves the computer.
Only the licence is checked online, with Lemon Squeezy: the key, and
this computer’s name when you activate it. A subscription is
checked every few days and keeps working offline for two weeks in
between.
What it works with
Revit
2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027
System
Windows
Install
Close Revit and double-click install.cmd. It
installs for your Windows user only, with no administrator rights:
Revit 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027 all get an Arka tab.
When it goes on sale
Arka for Revit is not on sale yet. Questions, or want to know when
it is? Write to support@arka.today.