The Building Coder

Adjust Wall Location Curve and Visual Presentation

An exciting discussion on applying minimal adjustments to the model, and yet another research result on the effectivity of visual presentation – Adjusting versus recreating wall location curve – Multimedia communication versus bullet points... Read more →

24x24 StackedItem, Ribbon Utils, Journal Encoding

Let's start the week with some ribbon button item and encoding topics – How to create 24x24 stacked ribbon items – Update on moving a ribbon button between panels – Revit journal file character encoding... Read more →

Multi-Threading Family Instance Placement Monitor

Kennan Chen perfected his family instance placement monitor by elegantly combining the Revit API with additional .NET timer and multi-threading functionality in a novel fashion seldom seen in a Revit add-in... Read more →

Lat Long to Metres and Duplicate Legend Component

Today, we discuss duplicating legend components in Python, my own non-API Python work and some undocumented utility methods – Duplicate legend component in Python – Convert latitude and longitude to metres in Python – UIFrameworkService utility methods – Exceptions should be exceptional... Read more →

Getting Title Block Data and ViewSheet from View

Today, let's highlight two view related data access topics – Get ViewSheet from View – Title block data access... Read more →

Ini File, Localisation and Torsion Tools Two

More Revit API tutorial material and tools, plus a couple of hints from the Revit API discussion forum and the Forge blog – Torsion Tools two – Retrieve path to Revit.ini – Updated NeXLT localization URL – Volume and area of triangulated solid... Read more →

Search for Getting Started Tutorials and Videos!

Getting started material and questions galore. Please search before asking, and work through the available material before trying to shoot yourself in your feet, knees, and elsewhere – Marko's plugin development playlist – Overview – Table of contents – Getting started with an API script – Getting started with a macro – OBJ mesh import with materials – 2D Booleans in the Revit API... Read more →

External Communication and Async Await Event

async and await external event wrapper! Communicating from outside with Revit is often better replaced by the Forge Design Automation API for Revit. However, it is also possible to make use of Revit as a server in a limited way via an external event – Communicating with another process – Autodesk open positions... Read more →