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title: "rvt-rs: Clean-room Rust reader for Autodesk Revit files"
type: software
version: 0.1.2
date-released: "2026-04-20"
license: Apache-2.0
repository-code: "https://github.com/DrunkOnJava/rvt-rs"
url: "https://github.com/DrunkOnJava/rvt-rs"
abstract: >-
rvt-rs is an Apache-2-licensed Rust library and CLI for reading
Autodesk Revit files (.rvt, .rfa, .rte, .rft) without any dependency
on Autodesk's SDK or a Revit installation. It is the first
open-source tool to enumerate the Formats/Latest class schema
inventory and has been verified against 11 Revit releases spanning
2016 through 2026.
keywords:
- revit
- rvt
- rfa
- bim
- autodesk
- ifc
- file-format
- parser
- rust
- interoperability
- reverse-engineering
authors:
- family-names: Long
given-names: Griffin
alias: DrunkOnJava