The Building Coder

Revit Server and View Filter Alert

Non-API Revit Server access, exporting Outlook email text, and using a view filter to alert to missing data... Read more →

Installer Asset, FormIt and Quaternions

Notes on FormIt and its JavaScript API, the new automatically generated RevitLookup MSI installer asset, transformations and quaternions – FormIt API and geographical context – RevitLookup MSI installer asset – Transform and quaternions... Read more →

New Analytical Model API

Important news coming for structural developers, further development in RevitLookup, notes on extensible storage and JavaScript – New Analytical Model API – Praise for modeless RevitLookup – Benchmarking generic Any versus Count – Escape RevitLookup – Use extensible storage carefully – jQuery is widespread but outdated... Read more →

WallCrossSection Renaming in the Revit 2022.1 API

Breaking news from the Revit development team on the WallCrossSection to WallCrossSectionDefinition renaming in the Revit 2022.1 API update... Read more →

What's New in the Revit 2022.1 API

The Revit 2022.1 API includes some important enhancements addressing new Revit product functionality and developer wishes and requests – Information sources – What's new in previous versions – Diff to the Revit 2022 SDK – API additions... Read more →

Revit 2022.1 SDK, RevitLookup Build and Install

Exciting news with a lot of changes to RevitLookup and The Building Coder samples – Revit 2022.1 SDK released – WallCrossSection vs. WallCrossSectionDefinition – RevitLookup build and install – Bye-bye lookup builds – The Building Coder samples revamped – Copy as HTML update – Image cleanup and a robot arm... Read more →