The Building Coder

Keep Dialogues Modal!

Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, at least in the parts of the world I normally frequent. Just as the sun reached the end of its descent, we finally reached the end of our conference tour, here in the UK. I am exhausted and very much looking forward to returning home. There will be only rather a short time left to prepare for Christmas and my children's visit when I arrive. Meanwhile, here are a... Read more →

Finding a Development Partner

I was able to recuperate a bit from the previous weeks' travels and conferences in Milan this weekend, where I did very little except feel exhausted and ill. Now I am fine again, though, and arrived safely for the developer conference and DevLab here in Farnborough in the UK. The plane last night was late, of course, so I checked in way after midnight, but at least we all made it here this year :-) Now and then, people ask... Read more →

Loading an Inventor ADSK Component

We held the DevLab in Munich yesterday before rushing off to get to Milano in the evening. I slept a little bit in the taxi and plane on the way here. I was still dead tired on arrival at the hotel just before ten, but thought I absolutely must get out and have a teeny weeny little sniff of Italy anyway before going to bed. I went to a bar right next door and committed the deadly foreigner sin of... Read more →

AVF Displays Intersections and Highlights Rooms

We held a DevLab in Gothenburg yesterday with lots of interesting things to discuss with our Scandinavian developer guests. Today we are in Munich, Germany. So is Kean :-) One of the topics that came up yesterday is a thing I have been wanting to write about for over a year now and never gotten around to, the use of the AVF or Analysis Visualisation Framework to display temporary geometry to the user. I used it myself to display a... Read more →

Copy a Model from a Revit Server

Yesterday evening we had dinner together with developer partners at Heaven 23 again, the same place we visited last year, with its unique reflection-accessible cloud. Today we are holding a DevLab here in the Autodesk office in Gothenburg in Sweden, providing an opportunity for developers to come visit us with their day-to-day work in progress and current issues. Meanwhile, here is a question related to the Revit Server and its API: Question: How can I copy a Revit file out... Read more →

Top Faces of Sloped Wall Update

On Saturday we left Paris and arrived in Göteborg, or Go:teborg as the local tourist office appears to like spelling it. On Sunday we went for a trip on one of the public transportation ferry boats out to Vrångö. From right to left you see Jim, Partha, Philippe, and me, and Adam is taking the picture: Fittingly enough, I also had some correspondence on a Revit API issue with a Swedish developer on the same day: Henrik Bengtsson of Lindab... Read more →

REX Content Generator

I had an absolutely magical experience in Israel before leaving Tel Aviv Thursday afternoon. Among many others at the developer conference on Wednesday, we met with Dima Brickmann of Omnitech, and he suggested going for a short visit to Jerusalem before returning to the airport, which is located between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Partha and I decided to join him. Dima has a very special relationship with the city and a deep philosophical and photographical view of it, so he... Read more →

Interior Side of a Wall

I really enjoyed my little outing in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening to the 5Rhythms City Wave offered by Rivi Diamond. Confusing Ramat Gan with Tel Aviv and First Hebrew Characters Getting there turned out to be unexpectedly adventurous, because while I assumed that I was walking around in Tel Aviv, I was in fact in the neighbouring city Ramat Gan. Two parallel streets named Jabotinsky and Arlozorov span both of them, and I was running around in the area... Read more →

Export Solid to ACIS

Today we are en route to Tel Aviv in Israel after the successful conference held in Moscow yesterday. In Tel Aviv I even have a personal activity lined up, besides the official reason for going there to hold another conference on Wednesday: a 5Rhythms City Wave is offered very Tuesday evening by Rivi Diamond and fits my schedule perfectly. That will provide another wonderful change from airplanes, taxis, hotels, and conferences. Meanwhile, here is a sweet little question on exporting... Read more →

Unit Conversion and Display String Formatting

AU went very well for me, and I think this was the one I liked most of all so far, to my own surprise. Now I am already at the next conference in Moscow, from where I continue to Tel Aviv tomorrow. December is always my monster travelling month, and I never get to prepare for Christmas or enjoy the dark and cosy celebration of Advent. But I really did have fun and enjoy AU in Las Vegas. Sunday morning... Read more →