The Building Coder

Lunar Eclipse and Custom File Properties

Today, let's look at a Windows API question that can be of interest handling Revit documents as well, and mention my night out to watch the – Lunar Eclipse – Custom File Properties... Read more →

Revit Answer Day and Creating a Roof

Today I'll highlight two items, plus an addendum for Kinjal and Carolina – Revit Answer Day – Creating a Roof – Setting FootPrintRoof Slope... Read more →

Change Type, Iterate Elements, Create Family

Let's wrap up this hectic week with a couple more recently answered issues and one non-Revit note – Changing element type – Iterating over elements – Creating an electrical family – La costola di Adamo... Read more →

SVG, In-Memory Family, RevitLookup BoundingBox

The cloud accelerator kept me busy last week, I am working hard on the CompHound project and documenting that work on The 3D Web Coder. Besides that, I submitted several enhancements to various Revit add-in projects. Here are some of my recent activities – CompHound component tracker project development – RevitLookup displays element bounding box – SvgExport for Revit 2016 – In-memory family creation and structural stiffener migration from 2012 to 2016... Read more →

Sharing, Dynamo and a Chinese Book

I returned from the Autodesk Cloud Accelerator in Prague, where I finished off cleaning up the FireRating in the Cloud sample and made some good inroads into the new CompHound project. Some learning resources and sharing philosophy – Håvard Vasshaug on Learning Dynamo and Sharing Content – Open Source BIM, IFC and FreeCAD – Chinese Revit API Book... Read more →

FireRating in the Cloud and RevitLookup Update

I am currently working intensely at the Autodesk Cloud Accelerator in Prague. I spent a lot of my time so far enhancing the FireRating in the Cloud sample. – FireRating in the Cloud enhancements – RevitLookup update to handle null analytical model – Retrieving all model elements... Read more →

Simple DirectShape on Face, RestSharp, PUT and POST

Creating a DirectShape from a face used the picked face reference and its stable string representation to navigate the element geometry and determine a transformation. Let's take a look at a much simpler approach – Simpler DirectShape on picked face using total transform – The CompHound component tracker – FireRating in the cloud enhancement... Read more →

Geometry Basics and No Modifying Linked Files

Revit API discussion forum threads – Geometry basics: how to retrieve geometry without prompting the user? – No modifying linked files: you have to unlink... Read more →

DirectShape From Face and Sketch Plane Reuse

The creation of a DirectShape element on an interactively selected existing element face requires a transformation to be applied to the face of a family instance returned by the PickObject method to convert it from the family symbol space to the family instance real world coordinates – Creating DirectShape from face mesh – Determining real world transform of a family instance face returned by PickObject – Iterating over element geometry to find a specific target geometry object – Reusing sketch planes for model curve creation... Read more →

F# Procedural Modelling and Z3 Constraint Solving

F# Mantis Procedural Modelling and Z3 Constraint Solving: Matthew Moloney presents the potential of interactive F# coding in Revit, like the Tsunami Rhino plugin, with a number of improvements, similar to the Revit Python Shell but for the F# programming language, bringing advantages including full code completion, error checking, performance, design scalability and access to powerful procedural modelling and constraint solving tools... Read more →

Family Category, Element Ids, Transaction Undo and Updates

Lots of topics from Revit API discussion forum threads and GitHub updates: Family category; Keeping track of elements; Undoing a transaction; RevitLookup, GetRevisionData and ADN Revit API Training Labs update... Read more →

RealDWG, AutoCAD I/O, View & Data API Meetup

Are you interested in reading or writing DWG files directly, without installing AutoCAD? Querying? Viewing? Editing? Would you like to expand your solutions to support mobile devices and the web? Would you like to avoid implementing different or new application code to support desktop, mobile and web apps? Hear about the most efficient, reliable and robust solutions at the upcoming 'I Love DWG' meetup in Prague next Tuesday evening, September 8, using RealDWG, AutoCAD I/O and the View and Data API for DWG viewing and manipulation on any device, regardless of mobile, desktop, OS... Read more →