The Building Coder

Multi-Targeting Revit Versions, CAD Terms, Textures

Here comes another solution for efficiently compiling add-ins for multiple Revit version targets from one single code base, a note on resources for CAD term databases for consistent terminology translation, and a discussion on accessing custom texture maps in Forge and Revit – Multi-targeting Revit versions using TargetFrameworks – Further enhancement using the CSPROJ Import tag – CAD terminology resources for consistent translation – Showing a custom Revit texture map in the Forge Viewer... Read more →

Multiple Language RESX Resource Files

A large contribution today from Andrey Bushman, and a couple of upcoming Forge events – Supporting multiple language resource files – Creating and using localised resource RESX files – Upcoming Forge accelerators... Read more →

The Responsive Building Coder

I suffer from acute and chronic responsiveness. That is unpleasant for me, although hopefully pleasing and useful for the rest of humanity. What I mean is, I tend to answer other people's questions and needs before taking care of my own. I am forever trying to stop doing that. One of these days, I certainly will. The topic I refer to above is not me, personally, though, but The Building Coder blog. Nowadays, web pages should be based on a... Read more →

Autodesk Open Source All Over – Germany and Japan

Here are some notes on Autodesk Open Source involvement from AU Germany, the Japan hackathon, and two other nice topics for today: Autodesk University Germany Japanese View and Data API hackathon projects CAD Term Translation Cool presentation gimmick Autodesk University Germany In the keynote session, Carl Bass introduced Spark, Autodesk's new 3D printer and total commitment to open source: Connected – Spark connects digital information to 3D printers in a new and streamlined way, making it easier to visualize and... Read more →

Nightingale M3U and Denormalized Filename Characters

Here is a post addressing a Mac denormalized filename character issue, music players on Mac and Python file manipulation, so nothing to do with the Revit API. It appears that Songbird is dead, Nightingale is its successor, and nothing much else is happening on that front, neither now nor ever. I guess Nightingale will die a natural death too one of these days, but I am still using it so far anyway. Just like Songbird, Nightingale does not provide any... Read more →

Translated Shared Parameter GUID Consolidation

Obviously, a language independent application is much easier to implement and maintain than a language dependent one, once you have the internationalisation framework for it in place. By the way, I took this opportunity to add the new category I18n to this blog to collect these kind of topics. The Revit API offers support for creating language independent add-ins, e.g. by using the built-in parameter and category enumeration values instead of localised strings. For the inverse operation, the LabelUtils and... Read more →