The Building Coder

Section to Crop, Linked Boundary and Intersection

Two beautiful Revit API solutions to – Set view crop to section box and – Access room boundaries and intersections in linked models... Read more →

Duct Shape, BipChecker Facelift and @ Fonts

I begin this week with a rather mixed bag of interesting issues from the last – Get MEP duct shape update – Determining differences between DLL versions – BipChecker facelift – Fonts with '@' prefix... Read more →

Creating Material Texture and Retaining Pixels

A bunch of interesting discussions on creating material with texture, modifying element level, cutting off image pixels and other things – Creating a material with texture in Revit and Forge – Export image cutting off pixels – Change level of existing element – Physics is cool – Forge job openings... Read more →

Changing Element Colour and Material

The question of how to change the colour and material of individual elements has come up repeatedly over time – Change element colour in a view – Assign new material to an element – Replace a material in a wall or floor... Read more →

Revit 2021 Visual Studio Add-in Templates

Our tidbits for today – Revit 2021 Visual Studio add-in templates – Four important design patterns – Invisible shared parameters don't make it into Forge... Read more →

Split Pipe Tutorial and Related Cases

Today, let's focus on splitting pipes and other things, starting with a nicely structured tutorial – Abdelaziz' split pipe tutorial – Calling the SL split element command – Splitting a conduit... Read more →