The Building Coder

MEP System Structure in Hierarchical JSON Graph

Yesterday, I presented the new TraverseAllSystems add-in to traverse all MEP system graphs and export their connected hierarchical structure to JSON and XML that I am helping the USC team with here at the San Francisco cloud accelerator. I continued with that today, and also integrated a minor enhancement to RevitLookup – TraverseAllSystems updates – Shared parameter creation – Options – Bottom-up JSON structure – Top-down JSON structure – TraversalTree JSON output generator – TreeNode JSON output generator – Download and to do – RevitLookup updates... Read more →

Traversing and Exporting all MEP System Graphs

The Forge DevCon last week completed successfully. I had a full body 3D scan created there and used sed to flip the axes of the resulting OBJ mode. This week, I am sitting in the Autodesk offices at One Market in San Francisco, supporting the fourth Cloud Accelerator. One of the projects we are working on is from the University of Southern California to interact with Revit MEP systems in the Forge viewer. That requires traversing the MEP systems in the Revit model to store, recreate and represent their graph structures in the viewer – Revit MEP System Traversal – TraverseAllSystems Revit Add-in – Download – To do – Thanks to Mustafa Salaheldin... Read more →

Dynamic Model Updater Tutorial and Wizard Update

The Forge DevCon is over and was a great success. I am really excited to see where our paths will lead us in the near future as we continue to improve the connections between the desktop, Revit and BIM to the cloud and move forward towards freeing our BIM data. I published pointers to all the 'Free your BIM data' resources yesterday. Our main topics today are completely different and purely Revit API related – Updated Visual Studio Revit Add-in Wizards – RevitPythonShell Dynamic Model Updater Tutorial... Read more →

Freeing Your BIM Data and Roomedit3d Forge OAuth

The Forge DevCon took off yesterday with a big bang, as you have certainly heard by now. The 3D Web Fest evening event was also very cool. Today is the big day for me, with my presentation on Freeing your BIM Data coming up this afternoon. Here are all the roomedit3dv2 resources for you to explore at your own leisure – Detailed discussion – Slide deck – Demo recording – Source code – Live test... Read more →

Point Boundary Condition and Revit 2017 SDK

I arrived safe and sound in San Francisco via Vancouver and am now working on the final preparations for the Forge DevCon and 3D Web Fest. Before getting to that, here are some quick notes from my short exploration last week to produce a rather overdue list of the new Revit 2017 SDK samples and on creating a point boundary condition on a structural column – New Revit 2017 SDK Samples – Creating Point Boundary Condition on End of Structural Column... Read more →

Highlighting Revit Rooms in the Forge Viewer

I am leaving Athens today. The Athens Forge meetup and web server workshop at The Cube went well. Now it is full steam ahead towards the Forge DevCon in San Francisco week after next. Not to forget the 3D Web Fest on June 15, in parallel with Forge DevCon, showcasing the best of the 3D web as live performance art with a catered reception in a film festival atmosphere... Read more →

Filtering for View Specific Elements

While preparing for the Forge DevCon in SF and the Athens Forge meetup and web server workshop at The Cube Athens, I also happened to hear about the solution to the question raised by Chema in the Revit API discussion forum thread on deleting an area in a drafting view – I need to delete some elements (detail items) in a given area of my drafting view... Read more →