Pirros has two types of stashes: User Stashes (personal) and Firm Stashes (shared with everyone). Knowing the difference helps you collaborate effectively and find pre-built detail sets without re-creating them.
User Stashes
A User Stash is a personal collection of details that you create for your own use.
Created by: Any user (member or admin)
Visible to: Only you, until you share it
Purpose: Gather details for a specific project, task, or review before downloading
Sharing: You can share a user stash with specific colleagues by clicking the share icon and selecting their names. They receive a notification.
How to share a stash:
Click into Stashes on the left side bar
Click into the Stash you are looking to share
Click the Share arrow in the upper right
Select the User with whom you want to share the Stash
User stashes are ideal for:
Collecting details while researching a specific condition
Preparing a set of details to download into your Revit project
Sharing a curated set with a colleague working on the same project
Firm Stashes
A Firm Stash is a pre-built collection created by an admin and visible to everyone at your firm.
Created by: Admins only
Visible to: All users in the workspace
Purpose: Provide grab-and-go detail sets that any team member can access without searching
Editing: Only admins can add, remove, or modify details in a firm stash
Firm stashes are ideal for:
Standard detail packages for common project types (e.g., "Residential Foundation Set," "Commercial Restroom Package")
Onboarding new team members with curated starting-point details
Pre-assembling detail sets that match your firm's typical scope of work
How to Find Stashes
Click Stashes in the left side bar
You'll see four tabs: Private, Firm, Shared, Archived
Click into any stash to view its contents, download details, or export to PDF
Key Difference: The Firm Stash Toggle
When an admin creates a stash, they must turn on the Firm Stash toggle at creation time. This toggle determines whether the stash is personal or firm-wide. It cannot be changed after the stash is created.
Important: If an admin creates a stash but forgets the firm toggle, it becomes a personal user stash. To make it firm-wide, the admin needs to create a new stash with the toggle on and move the details over.
What Happens Next
After opening a stash, you can:
Stage for Download to send all details to your Revit download queue
Export to PDF to create a multi-page PDF for markups or sharing
Export Detail Files to download the .rvt files as a ZIP
When Pirros sees Revit connected with an open document, Stage for Download reads Insert instead. What happens in Revit depends on your plugin.
Which plugin do you have? Look at the Pirros tab in the Revit ribbon. A single Pirros button that opens a docked panel with Browse, Updates, Sync and Settings tabs means you have Pirros in Revit. Separate Sync, Download, Settings, Pirros and Live Link buttons mean you have the classic plugin. Don't go by the version number alone: on Revit 2020–2023 the classic plugin can show a 4.x version number.
Stashes in Pirros in Revit: your stashes are also in the Pirros panel. Open the Browse tab and click Stashes. Use the User, Firm and Shared chips to choose which stashes are listed (only User is selected at first), and use the arrow on a stash's card to open it. The classic plugin doesn't list stashes in Revit, so open them on the Pirros website.
Pirros in Revit: with Live Link on (the default, on the panel's Settings tab), the panel imports the stash into the active model automatically. Otherwise, open Browse › Stashes in the panel and click + Download in the Staged for download banner. You can also skip staging: click + Insert all on the stash's card in the panel.
Classic plugin: with Live Link connected (the Live Link button on the Pirros ribbon tab is orange), the Download Items window opens automatically. Otherwise, click Download ▸ Download on the Pirros ribbon tab. Review the items and click Confirm.
After you download a whole stash into Revit, a User Stash is archived automatically. Firm Stashes, and stashes marked as permanent, aren't archived. In Pirros in Revit, inserting only some of a stash's items doesn't archive it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Can I create a Firm Stash as a regular member?
A: No. Only admins can create firm stashes. If you've built a useful user stash that should be available to everyone, ask your admin to recreate it as a firm stash.
Q: Can I edit a Firm Stash?
A: Only admins can add or remove details from firm stashes. As a member, you can view and download from them but not modify them.
Q: When I click Stage for Download on a stash, does it download only the details I selected?
A: No. Stage for Download queues ALL details in the stash, regardless of which ones you've selected or highlighted. This is by design — it's a batch operation for the entire stash. To bring in only some items with Pirros in Revit, open the stash in the panel (Browse › Stashes), check the items you want in list view, and click + Insert in the selection bar (the button shows how many items you selected).
Q: I'm getting too many notifications about stash activity. How do I stop them?
A: Go to your account settings and adjust your notification preferences. You can reduce or disable notifications for stash updates.