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Restricting the Design Review Command

The Design Review command sends your electrical model data to an external AI service to generate a review. Some organizations, such as government agencies, defense contractors, and other clients with strict data-handling policies, are not permitted to send project data to any outside service; for these cases, an administrator can permanently disable Design Review on a per-computer basis. Once restricted, a standard user cannot turn it back on from inside ElectroBIM.

What Gets Restricted​

The AI panel on the ElectroBIM Design ribbon normally contains four commands. With the restriction, the Design Review command—the only command that sends your data off-site—will not be available to the user. The other commands will still be available.

If the user attempts to run the Design Review command using a keyboard shortcut or automation, the following error message will open:

ElectroBIM

AI Design Review has been disabled by your administrator.

Restricting AI Design Review During Installation​

When running the ElectroBIM installer, the AI Design Review page allows you to set whether the Design Review command is restricted on the machine. To disable the command, uncheck the ☐ Enable AI Design Review on this computer checkbox, then continue through the rest of the installer as normal.

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Unchecking this box once will persistently disable the command for this machine. If the setting is already disabled when you re-run the installer, the box will be unchecked by default; re-checking it will not re-enable the command. For information about turning it back on, visit Re-Enabling AI Design Review below.

Restricting AI Design Review After Installation​

If ElectroBIM is already installed, or you want to deploy this setting to many computers at once, set the following registry value directly instead of running the installer:

  • Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Design Master Software\ElectroBIM
  • Value name: bAIDesignReviewDisabled
  • Type: DWORD (32-bit)
  • Data: 1 disables AI Design Review. 0 or an absent value leaves it enabled (the default).

Restart Revit for the change to take effect.

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Administrator rights are required to change the registry value, and it applies to every Windows user on the machine. The setting also persists across ElectroBIM upgrades and uninstalls.

Re-Enabling AI Design Review​

A standard user cannot re-enable AI Design Review from inside ElectroBIM, and re-running the installer will not turn it back on. To re-enable it, an administrator must edit the registry directly:

  1. Open Registry Editor (regedit) as an administrator.
  2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Design Master Software\ElectroBIM.
  3. Delete the bAIDesignReviewDisabled value or set its data to 0.
  4. Restart Revit. The Design Review command will be visible on the ElectroBIM Design ribbon.