From Revit to Odoo in 3 Steps: Generate Accurate Quotes Directly from Your BIM Design

Your sales team is waiting for a quote, and the deadline is Friday. The architect just finished the Revit model, a treasure trove of quantities, dimensions, and specifications.

Now, someone has to spend hours manually counting every window, measuring every wall surface, and typing that data, line by line, into Odoo to generate a price.

Sound familiar?

For prefab manufacturers and construction companies, the gap between a finished BIM design and a final quotation isn't just a hurdle. it's where deals slow down and costly errors creep in. You have all the data you need in the Revit file, but getting it into Odoo means enduring an archaic process of manual extraction and data entry.

In this guide, we'll walk you through how to automate this entire flow: from a complete Revit design to a ready-to-send Odoo quotation, all in three simple steps.

The Quotation Bottleneck: Why Your Current Process is Broken

The traditional path from BIM model to quoted price is riddled with friction:

• Open the Revit model and run schedules/takeoffs (or, if you're lucky, use an add-in).
• Export to Excel (or worse: scribble numbers onto paper).
• Manually match Revit components (like a "Wall-Exterior-200mm-Concrete") to actual salable products in your Odoo catalog.
• Type quantities into the Odoo quotation screen.
• Double-check everything (if there’s time).
• Repeat the entire process from scratch when the design changes.

This manual process creates three major problems that directly impact your bottom line:

• Slow Turnaround: Quotes that should take an hour end up consuming a full day or more. While your clients wait, your competitors are sending out their pricing.
• Error-Prone Pricing: Miss one window type, miscount a wall section, or use the wrong unit of measure, and suddenly you’re eating the margin on a job you already won.
• Revision Chaos: Design changes mean starting over. By the third revision, the whole team is stressed, and nobody truly trusts the numbers anymore.

The 3-Step Solution: Revit → Process → Odoo Quote

The secret is creating a direct, automated pipeline that takes the information from the design tool and injects it straight into the business system.

Step 1: Extract Design Data from Revit

The Revit model is your single source of truth: let it speak directly.

It already contains everything you need:

• Element counts: Windows, doors, panels, structural members, etc.
• Dimensions & Areas: Wall surfaces, floor space, façade sections.
• Material Specifications: Types, grades, finishes.
• Custom Parameters: Your internal product codes, cost centers, or fabrication notes.

Instead of relying on clunky schedules or manual copying, an automated pipeline connects to the native .rvt file (or an IFC export) and extracts this data programmatically.

Key Insight: The quality of your output hinges on the quality of your input. Consistent parameter naming and complete data within your Revit families are non-negotiable for seamless automation.

Step 2: Transform Data into Quotable Line Items

Raw Revit data isn't ready for a quote. You can't just sell a "Basic Wall: Exterior - 200mm." That element needs to be translated into a priced product line in Odoo.

This transformation step is the brain of the operation. It handles:

• Filtering: Ignoring annotation, helper geometry, or elements not relevant to the final sale.
• Calculation: Converting raw dimensions into the units you sell (e.g., converting a wall's surface area into $m^2$ of insulation product, or counting pieces).
• Mapping: The crucial step: matching a specific Revit family/type name to its corresponding Product ID in your Odoo catalog.
• Grouping: Consolidating items logically (e.g., bundling all insulation for a floor or breaking down a wall type into its sub-components).

Step 3: Generate the Quotation in Odoo

The final step pushes the perfectly processed and priced data directly into your Odoo Sales module, creating a draft quotation that is instantly available:

• All product lines are populated with exact quantities.
• Pricing is pulled from your established Odoo price lists.
• Customer information and project references are linked.

Your sales team simply opens Odoo, reviews the final document, makes any necessary final adjustments, and hits Send. What used to take half a day now takes minutes.

And the best part? When the design inevitably changes, you re-run the pipeline. New quote, updated quantities, and bulletproof pricing: all without restarting the manual work.

What This Means in Practice

Beyond the obvious time savings, automating this workflow provides a significant competitive advantage. Faster quotes win more deals. When you can respond to a client’s request the same day, with pricing that is accurate because it's based on their actual, completed design, you elevate the conversation beyond price alone. You compete on responsiveness and sheer professionalism.

Getting Started

If you're ready to bridge the gap between your design and business tools, here's your starting checklist:

Review your Revit standards. Be honest: Are your families and parameters consistently named? Is the data you need for pricing actually modeled and filled out?

Map your product catalog. This is the foundation. Create a definitive mapping between your Revit element types (family names, parameter values) and the corresponding Product IDs in Odoo.

Define your calculation rules. Establish the logic: How does a wall's area in Revit turn into a linear meter of flashing, a square meter of panel, and a piece count of brackets?

Test with a real project. Run one recent quote through your new automated pipeline and compare the result against the time and accuracy of your old manual process.

TL;DR: Stop manually extracting data from Revit to build quotes in Odoo. Automate it in 3 steps: (1) Extract element data directly from your Revit design, (2) Transform and map it to your Odoo product catalog, and (3) Generate a ready-to-send quotation automatically. The result: same-day quotes, zero data entry errors, and instant revisions when designs change.

Want to see exactly how we make this happen? Koto is a BIM-to-manufacturing platform that automates this workflow, helping prefab manufacturers and construction companies turn Revit designs into Odoo quotations without custom development or complex middleware.

Schedule a demo and stop quoting by hand!