The Building Coder

Happy Halloween!

The Revit Technology Conference RTC Europe in Budapest is just wrapping up. Happy Halloween! Read more →

RTC Classes and Getting Started with Revit Macros

I am presenting three classes at the Revit Technology Conference RTC – Autumn walk over Schauenburg – Full moon fire – Revit 2016 R2 – Session #44 Connecting the Desktop and the Cloud – Session #130 The Building Coder Chatroom – Session #161 Getting Started with Revit Macros... Read more →

Sheet to Model Coordinate Conversion

James Carroll raised a question on the discussion of exact viewport positioning on the "gap in the API related to converting between model and sheet coordinates." This is exactly what we are trying to do! We want to get element boundary geometry in paper space. Is this gap still present in the Revit 2016 API? Are you aware of a workaround? ... Read more →

Filtering Samples and RAC 2016 Features

The issue of simple filtered element collector samples was raised in a private message. I do not like to receive private messages and avoid answering them in private. I always prefer to discuss everything I do in public and enable the entire community to contribute and share when possible. In this case, such a message led to the discussion below. I'll also point to an overview of Revit Architecture 2016 Features... Read more →

Autodesk DevDays 2015 and CAD Trends

I am back from my vacation in Andalusia. Time to get through the email backlog and back to productive work again. No, not at all, time to get ready for the Revit Technology Conference next week, all-too-quickly followed by Autodesk University and the Autodesk DevDays 2015. Oh dear, in a hurry again. Time flies! The DevDays format is significantly changed from previous years – Autodesk DevDays 2015 with Accelerators – Kean's hsbcad Wood Construction Customer Visit – CAD Trends... Read more →

PostCommand causes Internal Exceptions, a Break

For the past few years now, the development team has been adding various checks to prevent illegal use of Revit API entry points from outside a valid Revit API context. Read all about the valid Revit API context and how to access it – Idling and External Events for modeless access and driving Revit from outside – New checks were just added in the Revit 2016 service pack 2 which uncovered more long-standing illegal API calls – CompHound connects desktop and cloud – Do not call `PostCommand` from a modeless context – Do Not Call `PostCommand` from an `Idling` Event Handler – Vacation time... Read more →