Set up Civly for Revit

About ten minutes. You need Windows with Revit 2024 to 2027, the licence key Civly sent you, and an AI app such as Claude.

1. Install the add-in

Download Civly for Revit

A zip of about 66 MB.

Unzip it somewhere, for example your Desktop.
Close Revit.
Open the unzipped folder and double-click Install Civly.

If Windows shows a blue "protected your PC" box, click More info, then Run anyway. The installer only copies files into your own Revit add-ins folder.

2. Connect Revit

Open Revit. If it asks about the Civly add-in, choose Always Load.
Go to the Civly tab, then Settings, then Civly Cloud.
Paste your licence key and press Save.

The status line reads Linked as followed by your email when it is connected.

3. Connect your AI app

In Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then:

Name	Civly
URL	`https://mcp.civly.dev/mcp`
Authentication	No sign-in
Request header	Name `Authorization` Value `Bearer`, a space, then your licence key

Save, and make sure the Civly connector is switched on in the chat.

4. Try it

Open a model in Revit, start a new chat and ask:

Use Civly to tell me what levels are in this model.

Good to know

Your key works on the first PC that connects with it. To move to another PC, ask Civly for a new key.
Revit must be open, with the model you want to work on, for Civly to answer.
Your Revit files are never uploaded. Civly's server passes your AI app's requests to Revit and the answers back.
If you agreed to share usage data during your trial, the status line in Revit says so, and Civly keeps those requests and answers to improve the product. Ask at any time to switch it off or delete it.

If something is wrong

"Revit isn't connected to Civly"	Revit is closed, or the Civly Cloud status line does not say Linked. Check the key and press Save again.
"This licence key is registered to another PC"	The key was first used on a different computer. Ask Civly for a new key.
The installer says Revit is open	Close every Revit window and run it again.
Anything else	Reply to the email your key came in.

Remove

Delete the folder revit_mcp_plugin and the file mcp-servers-for-revit.addin from %APPDATA%\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\<year>, and remove the Civly connector from your AI app.