If you have ever clicked through hundreds of doors one by one to fix a Mark value, or retyped a room schedule into Excel for a client, you already know the problem SheetLink by DiRoots sets out to solve. It moves Revit model data out to Excel or Google Sheets, lets you edit it in a familiar grid, and then pushes the changes back into the model. In this review we look at what SheetLink does today, what changed in the September 2026 update, how to use it step by step, and whether it is worth paying for now that it sits in the premium tier of DiRootsOne.
What Is SheetLink?
SheetLink is one of the tools inside DiRootsOne, the productivity pack from DiRoots, a developer well known in the Revit community for its utility add-ins. Its job is two-way data exchange: you export categories, elements or schedules from Revit to a spreadsheet, edit the values there, and import the spreadsheet to update the model. DiRoots says it also works with Google Drive and Google Sheets, and the current DiRootsOne page mentions integration with Morta as well.
SheetLink used to be a well-known free standalone download. Today, the DiRootsOne pricing page lists it among the Premium tools, alongside OneParameter, QuickViews, TableGen and ViewAligner. Keep that in mind if you remember it as free, and check DiRoots' own page before you plan a rollout.
Key Features
Based on DiRoots' product pages and its September 2026 update notes, here is what SheetLink offers:
- Export by category, element or schedule: all model and annotation categories, individual elements or elements by Type ID, plus schedules such as quantities, material take-offs, sheet lists and view lists.
- Import back to Revit: edited values flow back into the model, which is where the real time saving is.
- Google Sheets support: export and import through Google Drive, which is handy for teams that share data with consultants who do not use Revit.
- Built-in Preview/Edit grid: an Excel-like editor inside the tool for quick changes without opening Excel at all.
- Rooms and Spaces from a template: create new Rooms and Spaces from a template Excel file.
- Linked models and project standards: export linked model data (for viewing only), Project Information, Object Styles and a list of families in the model.
- New in September 2026: dropdown lists: exported Excel files and the Preview/Edit view now offer dropdowns of valid values for parameters such as Materials, Phases, Levels, Worksets, View Templates and Detail Level. This cuts down typos that would otherwise fail on import.
How to Install and Use SheetLink
DiRoots distributes SheetLink as part of the DiRootsOne installer. The process looks like this:
- Download DiRootsOne from the DiRoots website or its Autodesk App Store listing. DiRoots asks for a short form (name, email, country, company) before the download. DiRootsOne supports Revit 2018 through 2027.
- Install and open Revit, then launch SheetLink from the DiRoots tools. SheetLink needs a Premium licence or an active trial.
- Choose what to export: a category, a set of elements or a schedule, then pick the parameters you want as columns.
- Export to Excel or Google Sheets, or use the Preview/Edit grid for small changes.
- Edit the values. Use the new dropdowns for parameters like Level or Phase so the values match what exists in the model.
- Import back into Revit and spot-check a few elements in the model and schedules.
Practical tip: always include the element ID column in your export and avoid sorting or deleting rows in a way that breaks it. Save the Revit model (or work on a copy) before your first big import, so you can roll back if a column was mapped wrongly.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Huge time saver for bulk parameter edits, room data and schedule clean-up.
- Google Sheets support makes it easy to collaborate with non-Revit users.
- The new dropdown lists reduce failed imports caused by mistyped values.
- Actively maintained: the September 2026 update fixed leading-zero and formatting bugs and a Revit 2027.2 compatibility issue.
- Wide version support, Revit 2018 to 2027.
Cons
- No longer free: it now needs a DiRootsOne Premium licence (€100 per user per year, or $120 per user per year in the USA through ATG USA, according to DiRoots).
- Linked model data is export-only, for viewing.
- Like any bulk-import tool, one bad column can change many elements at once, so you need a careful workflow.
Who Is It For?
SheetLink makes the most sense for BIM coordinators, architects and MEP designers who regularly fill in or audit parameters across many elements: door and room data, equipment tags, sheet and view lists, or data requested by a client in a spreadsheet. If you only edit a handful of parameters a month, Revit's own schedules may be enough. But if spreadsheets are already part of your weekly routine, SheetLink removes a lot of copy-and-paste.
Looking for free alternatives or companions? Read our pyRevit 7.0 review, and if your bottleneck is exporting sheets rather than data, see our Exstream Pro review.
Verdict
SheetLink remains one of the most practical Revit-to-Excel tools around, and the September 2026 dropdown feature fixes one of the most common causes of messy imports. The move to a paid Premium tier will disappoint long-time free users, but at around €100 per user per year for the whole DiRootsOne Premium pack, it pays for itself quickly on any project with heavy data entry. Try it first with the free trial on a copy of a real project.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Powerful, well maintained and easy to learn; half a point off for the move behind a paywall.