Change Revit Language
Overview
Change Language opens a single picker that controls two independent settings: the Revit UI language and the B45 Labs plugin language. Pick a plugin language and it applies live — the ribbon captions and any open B45 Labs window re-translate on the spot, with no restart. Pick a different Revit UI language and Revit itself must relaunch with the /language switch, so the tool first offers to save your open models, then restarts Revit in the chosen language. A Match Revit language checkbox (on by default) keeps the plugin mirroring Revit; turn it off to set the plugin language on its own.
How to use
- In the B45 Labs | Coordination tab, open the Revit Settings panel and click Change Language.
- In the picker, choose the Revit UI language and the B45 Labs plugin language — each language name is shown in its own language so the choice is self-evident.
- Leave Match Revit language ticked to keep the plugin mirroring Revit, or untick it to pick the plugin language independently.
- Confirm your selection. If only the plugin language changed, the ribbon and any open B45 windows re-translate immediately and nothing restarts.
- If you changed the Revit UI language, choose Save all, Discard all, or Cancel when prompted; Save all writes every modified, non-linked model before Revit relaunches in the new language.
Tips & Notes
- Changing only the plugin language never touches your models or your Revit session — it is instant and reversible.
- The plugin language preference is shared across installed B45 products, so setting it once relabels Coordination, Library, and any other B45 product together.
- The Revit language switch relaunches Revit; the matching Autodesk language pack must already be installed, and the tool warns you if its locale folder is missing next to Revit.exe.
Limitations
- Non-English plugin languages (Português, Español, Français, Русский) ship as BETA — they are AI-assisted drafts pending native review, and any untranslated string falls back to English.
- The live re-translate covers the ribbon buttons and windows you reopen; panel section headers and already-open windows finish relabeling on your next Revit restart.
- Only Revit languages whose Autodesk language pack is installed can actually load after the restart.