Getting started

A+ Tools adds an A+ Tools tab to the Revit ribbon with tools that turn a curtain wall into a finished drawing package — elevation, plan, dimensions, tags, schedules and a placed sheet — and keep your office's drawing standards in reusable settings profiles. This page takes you from downloading the installer to your first drawing: what you need, how to install, how to sign in (or start a free trial) and where everything is on the ribbon.

System requirements

Note — There is one installer per Revit year: A+ Tools for Revit 2026 and A+ Tools for Revit 2027. If you use both Revit versions, install both — see Side-by-side Revit versions.

Installing A+ Tools

Download the installer (an .msi file named like AedificonAPlus-2026.x.x.x.msi) for your Revit year.

1. Close Revit.
2. Double-click the .msi file. Windows asks for permission to make changes — the prompt shows A+ Tools for Autodesk Revit 2026 (or 2027) and Verified publisher: Aedificon AB. Click Yes.
3. On the Welcome page, click Next.
4. Read the licence agreement, tick I accept the terms in the License Agreement and click Next.
5. On the Installation options page, choose whether to start a trial and where to install (see Installation options below), then click Next.
6. Click Install, wait for the progress bar, and click Finish on the Completed the Setup Wizard page.
7. Start Revit. The A+ Tools tab appears in the ribbon.

The Installation options page of the setup wizard.

Installation options

What gets installed where

Upgrading to a new version

When a new version is available, A+ Tools tells you when Revit starts, and you can check yourself from A+ Tools › Check for updates — see The A+ Tools menu. To upgrade:

1. Close Revit.
2. Run the new installer without uninstalling the old version first.
3. After the licence agreement, the wizard shows Ready to upgrade with the folder A+ Tools is installed in. Click Upgrade.

The upgrade keeps your install location, your personal settings and your sign-in. The settings stored in your projects are kept too, and projects saved with the previous version open and run normally.

Note — You cannot install an older version over a newer one. Setup stops with a message asking you to uninstall the newer A+ Tools first.

Side-by-side Revit versions

Each Revit year has its own A+ Tools edition, with its own folders (A+ for Revit 2026, A+ for Revit 2027) and its own personal settings. If you work in both Revit 2026 and Revit 2027, install both editions — they do not interfere with each other. Your Aedificon account and licence are the same in both.

For IT: silent installation

The installer supports unattended deployment, for example:

msiexec /i AedificonAPlus-<version>.msi /qn
msiexec /i AedificonAPlus-<version>.msi /qn APLUS_START_TRIAL=1 APLUSINSTALLFOLDER="D:\Apps\A+ for Revit 2026"

APLUS_START_TRIAL=1 is the same as ticking the trial checkbox; APLUSINSTALLFOLDER sets the install folder. To pre-configure defaults for every new user on a computer (for example the plugin language or the logging level), edit the installed template C:\ProgramData\Aedificon\A+ for Revit 2026\Settings.xml — it is copied to each user's personal settings the first time they start Revit with A+ Tools.

The first time you start Revit

When Revit has finished starting, A+ Tools checks your licence in the background and then does one of two things:

• You ticked the trial checkbox in the installer — the 14-day trial starts automatically and no window appears. The tools are ready to use. A+ Tools › About A+ shows Plan: Trial.
• Otherwise — the A+ Tools Licence window opens and asks you to sign in.

The A+ Tools Licence window.

The trial and the Free account are explained in Licensing and credits.

Signing in through your browser

1. Click Sign in (or Create account). A new browser window opens on the Aedificon sign-in page.
2. Sign in, or fill in the sign-up form. The first time, you may be asked to allow the A+ Plugin to access your account — accept.
3. The browser shows You're signed in — You can close this window and return to Revit.
4. Back in Revit, the A+ Tools Licence window closes by itself and the tools are ready. Your name now appears in the A+ Tools menu.

You stay signed in on this computer, also after restarting Revit, until you choose A+ Tools › Log out.

Tip — The A+ Tools Licence window stays usable while the browser is open. If you closed the browser by mistake, simply click Sign in again; A+ Tools waits up to five minutes for the browser sign-in to finish.

If the browser shows Sign-in didn't complete, go back to Revit — the A+ Tools Licence window shows the reason in red under the buttons.

Verifying your email address (new accounts)

A new account must confirm its email address before it can be used:

1. After you create the account, the A+ Tools Licence window changes to Please verify your email address — We sent a verification link to your inbox. Click it, return to A+, and then click Sign in below.
2. Open the email from Aedificon and click the verification link.
3. Return to Revit and click Sign in in the same window. This time the sign-in completes (usually without asking for your password again).

Tip — No email? Check your spam folder, and make sure you signed up with the address you are checking.

A tour of the A+ Tools ribbon tab

The A+ Tools tab in the Revit ribbon.

A few things worth knowing about the buttons:

• Greyed-out buttons — the drawing tools are greyed out until you are signed in or on a trial. They are also greyed out in views where they cannot work: Create Drawing and Create Panel Divisions need a view where you can pick a wall (plan, elevation, section, detail or 3D view), and Redimension Elevation needs an elevation or section view to be active.
• Buttons that turn into menus — when you tick Add as menu item to ribbon on a settings profile, that tool's button becomes a drop-down with one item per profile, so you can run the tool with a specific profile in one click. See Settings profiles and repositories.

The default settings that ship

You do not have to set anything up before your first drawing:

• Ready-made settings profiles. The installer puts a sample repository on your computer — a small Revit template holding default settings profiles for the tools and the view templates, types and styles those profiles use. The first time a tool needs settings in a project, A+ Tools copies them into the project (you may briefly see Loading default settings...). This appears as one step, Load A+ Standards, in Revit's undo list.
• Settings live in the project. From then on the settings are stored in the project itself, so everyone working on the project uses the same ones. Change them in the Settings Manager or from a tool's settings button.
• Your personal preferences — plugin language (follows Revit), logging level (Normal) and the repository paths — are in A+ Tools › Plugin settings. See The A+ Tools menu.

Tip — Your office can keep its own standards in a central repository so that every project starts from the office defaults instead of the factory ones. See Settings profiles and repositories.

Your first drawing in five steps

1. Open a project with a curtain wall and go to a floor plan where the wall is visible.
2. Click A+ Tools tab › Curtain Wall panel › Create Drawing. (If some settings do not match this project — for example a view template it does not have — the settings window opens first; correct the settings and click OK.)
3. Click the curtain wall.
4. Click a point on the side of the wall you want to look at it from — the observation point. A+ Tools now creates the elevation, plan, dimensions, schedules and sheet.
5. Press Esc and click Yes - Commit changes and finish. Open the new sheet in the Project Browser.

The whole package is one undo step, so if you want to try different settings, undo, adjust and run again. All the details are in Create Drawing.

Note — On a Free account or a trial, each drawing package costs credits. Credits are only charged once a drawing has actually been created — cancelling before that costs nothing. See Licensing and credits.

Uninstalling

1. Close Revit.
2. Open Windows Settings › Apps › Installed apps (or Control Panel › Programs and Features).
3. Find A+ Tools for Revit 2026 (or 2027) and choose Uninstall.

Uninstalling removes the plugin, Revit's add-in registration and the sample repository. It does not remove:

• the settings stored in your projects,
• your personal settings and log files in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Aedificon\A+ for Revit 2026\ — delete the folder by hand if you want a completely clean start,
• this computer's registration on your licence.

Important — If you are leaving this computer for good, first choose A+ Tools › Log out, and then free the computer's place on your licence in the licence portal (Devices). Otherwise the computer keeps using one of your licence's device places. See Moving to another computer.

Where to get help

• This help — every tool page has a Messages you might see table, and Messages and troubleshooting lists every message.
• Support — A+ Tools › Support opens the Aedificon support page (www.aedificon.ai/support).
• Your licence and account — A+ Tools › Licence portal. See The licence portal.
• Log files — when you contact support, attach the log from A+ Tools › Plugin settings › Log folder › Open.

Tips

Tip — Not sure whether you are signed in? Open the A+ Tools menu: your name is shown above Log out. A dash (-) with Sign in below it means you are signed out.

Tip — Trying A+ Tools on a shared or test computer? Use the 14-day trial — it needs no account and does not use up your Free account's single computer place.

Tip — Work in Revit in another language? A+ Tools follows Revit's language automatically (13 languages). To use a different one, change Plugin language in Plugin settings and restart Revit.

Tip — Corporate network? Sign-in uses a short-lived connection on your own computer (ports 53217–53221 on localhost) to receive the answer from the browser. If sign-in always fails with a message about ports, ask IT to allow these local ports.

Messages you might see

All licence messages are explained in Licensing and credits; everything else in Messages and troubleshooting.

Related pages

• The A+ Tools menu
• Licensing and credits
• The licence portal
• Create Drawing
• Settings profiles and repositories
• Messages and troubleshooting

Last updated 2026-10-02.