The Building Coder

OptionsBar and Bye Bye to DA4R 2018

A great new open-source productivity enhancement tool making use of the built-in OptionsBar provides handy access to frequently used information, utilities, element selection options and more, and a reminder of the deprecated DA4R Revit 2018 engine... Read more →

Element Diff Compare, Shapely and RDBE

Exciting new and enhanced tools and libraries to check out – Revit element difference comparison – The Revit database explorer RDBE – The Shapely Python 2D geometry library – Measuring developer productivity... Read more →

System Family Predicate and Python Section Creation

Today, we shed some light on family and section view creation – System family predicate – Level-based family template – Create section view in Python... Read more →

Add-In Threads and Geometry Comparison

Deep Revit API questions requiring clarification and a simple database connection issue resolved – Add-in threads – GeometryObject comparison methods – Accessing Access – The INTERCAL programming language... Read more →