Beginner · 4 min read

Install and activate Nexaura

Run the installer, open Revit and activate your licence on first launch.

Video coming soonThe written steps below cover the full workflow.
  1. 1

    Download the installer

    Go to the Download page. You get Nexaura-Setup.zip, which holds Nexaura-Setup.exe: one installer for Revit 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027. Unzip it when the download finishes.

  2. 2

    Close Revit and run the installer

    Windows may show “Unknown publisher” the first time: click More info, then Run anyway. The installer lists every Revit year, detects which versions are installed on your PC, and pre-ticks the ones that are missing Nexaura or have an older version. Tick the years you want and install. Each year gets its own manifest in the Revit add-ins folder, its own program folder, and its own entry in Windows Apps, so a year can be removed on its own later. If you had any of the tools installed stand-alone, move their .addin files out of the add-ins folder first so each command appears only once.

    %APPDATA%\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\<year>\Nexaura.addin %LOCALAPPDATA%\Nexaura\Revit<year>\<version>\
  3. 3

    Open Revit and a project

    Two new tabs appear on the ribbon: “Nexaura” and “Nexaura Precast”. The Nexaura tab has the Excel, Sheet Revisions, Batch Export, Sheets & Views, Families, Modify and Selection panels. The Nexaura Precast tab has the Marks, Sequencing, Annotation and Text panels. Buttons marked “Coming soon” are not released yet. The tools need an open project.

  4. 4

    Activate on first launch

    Click any released tool. Sheet Revisions is free and opens without a licence key; the other tools ask for activation. The activation window asks for your registered email address and your licence key, which starts with NX-. Click “Activate and open tool” while online. Later launches reuse the activation.

    Offline use keeps working for 24 hours after the last successful check, never past the licence end date.
  5. 5

    Check your licence any time

    Each tool has a “License details” entry showing status and remaining time. Each licence works on one computer for one Windows user. Revit asks once whether to load the add-in, because it isn’t code-signed; choose Always Load.

Good to know

  • Copying the activation files to another computer does not activate it; activate there instead.
  • Each tool keeps its own log folder. For example, Excel Sync writes to %APPDATA%\RevitExcelManager\Logs and Sheet Revisions to %LOCALAPPDATA%\RevisionManager\Logs. Attach the latest file when you ask for support.