The Building Coder

Design Automation API, Stacks, Collectors and Links

The ultimatively painless introduction to the Forge Design Automation API, a solution for creating two stacked ribbon items, reinitialising filtered element collectors and picking a face in a linked file – Forge Design Automation API webinars – Stacking two 24x24 ribbon items – Reinitialising the filtered element collector – Use CreateReferenceInLink to select a face in a linked file... Read more →

Retrieving the Electrical Load from a Fixture

Today is my birthday, so I am trying hard to work less. Very kindly, Alexander Ignatovich provided a gift for the day in the form of a new external command CmdElectricalLoad in The Building Coder samples. showing how to retrieve the value of the `Load` column in the electrical system browser for a specific fixture family instance... Read more →

The Revit Batch Processor RBP

There are so many truly wonderful pieces of software sitting around there that I am unaware of, real works of art, pinnacles of perfection, that I only happen upon by chance – Revit Batch Processor (RBP) – Latest version – FAQ – Use cases – Features – Unlimited power... Read more →

Integrating the Helix 3D Viewer with a WPF Add-In

This is The Building Coder post number 1800, in its eleventh year of existence. We celebrate by highlighting the integration of a 3D geometry and model viewer in a Revit add-in with a solution making use of several interesting techniques, including the use of IPC for add-in disentanglement from third-party library dependencies and a new custom exporter implementation for OBJ. This issue was raised in two discussions, on a plug-in that displays Revit's 3D window content and using a geometry viewer in a Revit add-in to preview results... Read more →

DLL Conflicts and Replicating Schedule Sort Order

Today I highlight the following topics – I caved in to smartphone – Handling third party library DLL conflicts – Replicating schedule sort order... Read more →

Curve Projection, Detach and FBX in DA4R

Two little hints on Forge Design Automation for Revit or DA4R issues, projecting a curve onto a planar surface and an impressive list of add-in video samples – DA4R supports FBX and IFC – DA4R wrong user – Projecting curves onto a plane – Revit add-in versus Dynamo zero-touch node – Revit add-in sample videos... Read more →

Automated PDF Report and 2D Sketch Booleans

Today, we highlight two contributions by Håvard Leding and Oliver Green – 2D Boolean interactive real-time sketch viewer – Single-click automated PDF report via InDesign – Abbreviated table of technical contents... Read more →

Visual Studio 2019 Revit Add-in Template Tags

A small enhancement to the Visual Studio Revit Add-in Template, and another interesting little AI surprise – Template tags for Visual Studio 2019 – My wizard works again – OpenAI plays hide and seek and breaks the game... Read more →

Material, Physical and Thermal Assets

Today, we concentrate fully on material, physical and thermal assets – Issues accessing and creating material assets – Access to all material asset properties – No access to material keywords – Access to environment and render settings – Determine full path to texture bitmap... Read more →

Initiating BIM360 Collaboration and Linking

Today, we look at a couple of BIM360 and cloud related issues – Programmatically initiating BIM360 collaboration – Setting up external references in BIM360 Docs – Jay Zallan the text terminator – Free for developers – Tracks on the Internet – Quantum computers explained... Read more →