The Building Coder

Q4R4 tbc Import and RevitLookup

I started working on the question answering system Q4R4 Question Answering for Revit API. The first step is to import The Building Coder blog posts into Elasticsearch and experiment with full-text queries on them. Furthermore, we are proud to present yet more enhancements to the revamped version of RevitLookup – Q4R4 sources and result presentation – Importing tbc blog posts into Elasticsearch – Listing and clearing the Elasticsearch tbc index – Strip and clean up HTML for JSON document – Q4R4 GitHub repo and tbcimport.py script – RevitLookup bug fixes – RevitLookup icons... Read more →

Real-Time BIM Update via a Windows Forms Client

Today, I address the first item in yesterday's to do list – Document and improve FireRatingClient, the stand-alone Windows client – we will need this to demonstrate the real-time BIM update from arbitrary sources – Context – FireRatingClient – Adding the modified Field – Updating the modified Field on Edit – FireRatingClient Live BIM Update Demo Recording – Download – To Do... Read more →

Real-Time BIM Update with FireRatingCloud 2017

Yesterday, I migrated RoomEditorApp to Revit 2017 and mentioned the BIM and cloud related projects I am working on. Next, let's focus on the FireRatingCloud sample. The main goal there is to implement fully automatic real-time BIM update from the cloud. Now, 24 hours after writing the previous sentence, I can tell you that I succeeded. Well, add another six hours to edit this post... Here is the updated FireRatingCloud custom ribbon tab with its new set of commands... Read more →

Room Editor – First Revit 2017 Addin Migration

A wonderful Monday morning to you. We are enjoying perfect April weather, rapidly oscillating back and forth between warm sprintime sunshine, sleet and hail. Meanwhile, I am continuously striving hard yet failing miserably to reduce my pure Revit API focussed case answering and Revit API activity – Things To Do – Forge DevCon developer conference – RoomEditorApp for Revit 2017 – Roomedit CouchDB installation on Windows – FireRatingCloud enhancements completed and upcoming – First Revit 2017 deprecated API clean-up – Where BIM hasn't gone... Read more →

Reorg, FoMT, DevCon, TED, QR, Custom Exporter Quality

I had last week off and terminated it with a nice ski tour climbing the Albristhorn. Here are some topics to get going again – Reorg and Octo – The Future of Making Things, Iot, Forge and more – Forge and the DevCon in SF – T⁴ – Top Twelve TED Topics – RDBLink and Exporting data from Revit – Revit QRCode generator – Controlling custom exporter geometry quality... Read more →

EstoreFile, Group Preview and RoomScheduleCloud

Lots of exciting topics for today – EstoreFile, extensible storage and embedding a raster image – Preview Image for a Group – Thoughts on migrating the Room Schedule sample to 64-bit: Request, Implementation suggestion, Problem, Response – Autodesk 2016 AEC showreel call for submissions... Read more →