The Building Coder

AU, Revit 2017.1 SDK and REX FreezeDrawing

I returned from the Munich Forge accelerator, travelling back to Switzerland by train. For ecological reasons, I prefer to avoid flying whenever I possibly can. Last Friday was the deadline for submitting my Autodesk University handout, so that kept me busy. I still need to improve it a bit, and I hope a post-deadline update is feasible. I am presenting two classes, and I have a special discount to offer you. Lots of other things are happening as well – My classes at Autodesk University – $400 AU registration discount – Revit 2017.1 SDK – REX SDK FreezeDrawing sample – Determining the height of a column... Read more →

AI, Edit and Continue

I am still in Munich supporting the one-week Forge accelerator workshop, returning back to Switzerland by train tonight. For ecological reasons, I prefer to avoid flying whenever I possibly can. Lots of exciting development is going on here, and we are making great progress. I have another important detail to report from the the RTC Revit Technology Conference Europe in Porto last week, and other little titbits to share as well – Use AddInManager and attach to process to edit and continue – Can I replace myself by artificial intelligence? – Autodesk Design Graph – Artificial intelligence recognises conversational speech – Good portable loudspeakers... Read more →

Revit Future Direction and Public Roadmap

Here I am in Munich, supporting the one-week Forge accelerator workshop – Pizza and Isar – Public Revit Roadmap – Revit Idea Station – Revit Today and Tomorrow... Read more →

How to Create a New Line Style

I arrived safe and sound in Munich to provide support for the one-week Forge accelerator workshop at the Autodesk offices here – Arrival in Munich and Hotel Schlicker – Official pictures from RTC in Porto – Art of README – What is Join? – How to Create a Line Style... Read more →

Revit API Connecting Desktop and Cloud @ TUDa

The RTC Revit Technology Conference Europe and my stay here in Porto is nearing its end – Wrapping up in Porto – Connecting BIM and Cloud @ TUDa – Creating a Revit add-in with one single click – Connecting Revit and Forge in 55 minutes... Read more →

RTC Revit API Panel, Idea Station, Edit and Continue

This morning saw some lively discussion in the Revit API Panel at the RTC Revit Technology Conference Europe – Panel Members – Questions and Answers – Notes from Previous Revit API Panel Sessions – Session Materials... Read more →

Connecting Desktop and Cloud RTC Material

I am in the last stages of preparing my presentation this afternoon on connecting the desktop and the cloud for the RTC Revit Technology Conference Europe. For your and the audience's convenience, here are the materials I am presenting, and some of the main links to further information – Handout – Slide deck – Recording – Samples Connecting Desktop and Cloud... Read more →

Forge Formats, Webinars and Fusion 360 Client API

I updated the WebGL and Forge introduction for BIM programming and its GitHub source for the presentations in the coming days at the RTC Revit Technology Conference Europe and the ISEPBIM Forge and BIM workshops at ISEP, in Porto, implemented two little curl wrapper scripts to help me list the supported file formats, explored why they changed and updated the hackathon webinar overview. Before getting to that, I'll also highlight a helpful note by Christian on how to access the 'Symbolic Representation' setting – 'Symbolic Representation' setting parameter – Forge intro for BIM programming – cURL wrapper scripts to list Forge file formats – Updated Forge file formats – Forge hackathon webinar series and Fusion 360 Client API recording... Read more →

Cool Forge Demos and Roomedit Caveat

Getting ready to present an overview of Forge and talk about connecting the desktop and the cloud at the RTC Revit Technology Conference Europe and the ISEPBIM Forge and BIM workshops at ISEP, the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Jim Quanci very kindly supplied an updated list of really cool demo sites, plus a word of warning: – Cool Forge demos – Caveat on connecting desktop and cloud... Read more →

Token Expiry and Online Revit API Docs

My vacation ended and I am now in Porto, putting the last touches to my presentation material for the RTC Revit Technology Conference Europe and the ISEPBIM Forge and BIM workshops at ISEP, Porto University. Here are today's Revit API and Forge news items – Updated Online Revit API Docs – Handling Forge token expiry... Read more →

DirectObjLoader for Revit 2017

Here is a last quick Sunday morning post before I head off on vacation, on the DirectObjLoader migration to Revit 2017, handling the changes in DirectShape.CreateElement and TessellatedShapeBuilderResult... Read more →

Material Asset Textures, Forge Webinar Recordings

Today is the last day before my one-week vacation, directly followed non-stop by the ISEPBIM Forge and BIM workshops at Porto University, the RTC Revit Technology Conference Europe, and the Forge Accelerator in Munich. Before leaving, here is a note about another recording of the Forge webinar series and a happy resolution of a recent material asset texture related Revit API issue: – Forge webinar series and BIM360 recordings – Listing material asset textures and sub-textures... Read more →

Need to Commit Twice, Roomedit3dv3 and Forge

Lots of exciting news for today, like every day, once again on the pure Revit API, connecting the desktop and the cloud, and Autodesk Forge – Isolating an element in a newly created view requires two transactions – Forge research enquiry – Connecting desktop and cloud – Roomedit3dv3 live – Could you demo this remotely? – Connecting desktop and cloud draft handout – Table of contents... Read more →

Forge Webinars on Design Automation and BIM360

The Forge webinar series continues. The recording of session 5 on the Design Automation API held by Albert Szilvasy is now available. For code samples on Design Automation, please refer to Albert's tutorials and the Developer-Autodesk Forge Platform samples on GitHub, filtering for Design.automation... Read more →

Roomedit3dv3 Up and Running with Demo Recording

I completed the roomedit3dv3 project – Enhancements to the Forge Node.js boilerplate code – RoomEditorApp Revit add-in update – Roomedit3dv3 demo recording – Samples connecting desktop and cloud – Forge Webinar Series 5 – Design Automation API... Read more →

Retrieving and Broadcasting the Roomedit3dv3 Translation

As I discussed last week, the translation tool emits info about its activity via socket.io. Now I want to pick up that information higher up, in the viewer transform extension, and relay it to the node.js web server or broadcast it to the rest of the world. The existing sample call to emit is inside onTxChange, which is called on each mouse move. We do not need to track each mouse movement in such fine detail... Read more →