The Building Coder

Cyrillic Encoding and Categories for Legends

Solutions, criticism, opportunities – Categories for legend components – Encoding issue with Cyrillic characters fixed – AEC customers demand better value – Construction executive job... Read more →

IFC 21.1 and AEC Hackathon Presentations

More on Revit 2021.1, IFC 21.1, and nearing the end of the AEC Hackathon – Revit 2021.1 questions – IFC 21.1 released – AEC Hackathon final presentations... Read more →

Revit 2021.1 and Normalising Custom Export UV

The Revit update release is now available, and some insights on normalising UVs in the custom exporter – The Revit 2021.1 update – Normalising UVs in custom exporter – Set up your own free VPN server... Read more →

Selection in Link, Cancel in Export, Multithreading

Cool topics to wrap up this hot and exciting week – Are you using the derived analytical model? – Pick room in current project or linked model – Determine whether custom export was cancelled – Multi-threading with the single-threaded Revit API – Beginner’s guide to abstraction... Read more →

Virtual AU and AEC Hackathon, Units and DAS Job

Lots of exciting items to share – No cost for Autodesk University 2020 – AU voting suggestion – Modeless Revit add-ins – Virtual AEC and BIM360 hackathon – Do not print by category – Using the new unit API to display length of multiple lines – Job opening in Developer Advocacy and Support – Intro to synchronous versus async programming... Read more →