The Building Coder

BIM 360, Docs, Issues, Forge, DevDay and Accelerator

Good news on BIM 360 itself, Docs, Issues, and high time to prepare for the DevDay conference and accelerator next week – BIM 360 and C4R Success Story – Forge Web Services – BIM 360 Docs – The Forge Issues Service API – 24 Forge DevCon Presentation Recordings – Forge Hackathon Webinar Series Recordings – DevDay Europe and Forge Accelerator in Munich... Read more →

Using Other Events to Execute Add-In Code

The Revit API is very simple. It is entirely event driven. Any and every use of the Revit API requires a valid API context. The most common and obvious way to get into a valid Revit API context – and the most commonly used event – is the one to launch an external command, which calls the IExternalCommand Execute handler method. Other important ones to be aware of are ApplicationInitialized and DialogBoxShowing, unconnected with any external command at all... Read more →

1500 Posts, DevDay and Storing a Dictionary

Welcome to The Building Coder post number 1500! I returned safe and sound to Europe from Autodesk University 2016 in Las Vegas and recuperated from jetlag over the weekend. Today I discuss upcoming events, new simple samples to embed a Forge viewer in a web page or blog post, and strategies to embed a dictionary into the Revit database – DevDay Europe in Munich – AEC Symposium in New York – Embedding a Forge viewer – Storing a dictionary in the Revit database... Read more →

AU Day Two, IFC and Revit API Panel

The second day. I finally got to attend Angel Velez' IFC class – it always clashed with my own in previous years – followed by the product keynote and the Revit API panel discussion – Angel Velez on IFC – Product keynote – Revit API panel – Panel members – Questions and answers – Notes from previous Revit API panel sessions – Session materials... Read more →

AU Day One, Keynote and DevLab

Today Autodesk University started up for real. For me personally, the morning was occupied with booth preparation, the exciting keynote presentations and the afternoon DevLab Q&A – Autodesk University Keynote – Jeff Kowalski, CTO – Machine learning – Generative design – Virtual reality – Robotic systems – Exciting times – Guest Speakers Christian Benimana and Anna Nixon – Carl Bass, CEO – DevLab – Forge Pricing – Cl3ver, Chaos Group and V-Ray... Read more →

DevDay Conference at Autodesk University

Yesterday afternoon, I checked into the Venetian hotel for AU and the preceding DevDay conference – Desert day and night versus hotel morning – DevDay general session and Forge – AEC breakout – Revit API news, roadmap and idea station – BIM 360 – InfraWorks 360 and Civil 3D – Forge's first birthday party... Read more →

What's New in the Revit 2017.1 API

I recently mentioned the updated Revit 2017.1 SDK and its API enhancements. They are documented in full detail in the section Major additions to the 2017.1 Revit API of the Revit 2017.1 API help file RevitAPI.chm included with the SDK, which is also provided there in the separate stand-alone document Revit Platform API Changes and Additions.docx. For convenient, easy and effective web searching, here is the online version of that information... Read more →

BIM@TuDa, DevDays, Forge News and More Events

I am in Darmstadt preparing the Forge and BIM presentation and hands-on workshop at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut für Numerische Methoden und Informatik im Bauwesen, the institute for numerical methods and computer science in the construction industry at the technical university here. Many other larger events are coming up after this – BIM@TuDa agenda – Getting started with Dynamo – Forge news – New Forge resources – Forge events and community – DevDays – Developer Day conferences and accelerators... Read more →

Roomedit3dv3 Diff from Forge Boilerplate Code

I am preparing the Forge and BIM presentation and hands-on workshop this coming Friday at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut für Numerische Methoden und Informatik im Bauwesen, the institute for numerical methods and computer science in the construction industry at the technical university in Darmstadt. Now I prepared a detailed analysis of the exact changes I made to the forge-boilers.nodejs boilerplate code to implement the roomedit3dv3 sample connecting BIM with the cloud – Comparing the root folder contents – Comparing the Forge node.js boilerplate – Starting fresh from scratch – Copy, install and load the viewer extension – Adding the link to load the viewer extension – Renamed viewer extension base and toolkit js modules – All Viewer Extension Modifications – Successful test and final diff – 25 lines of code... Read more →