The Building Coder

Pernickety Blogging

Some important, some less important and some absolutely pernickety recommendations on perfecting API-related blog posts... Read more →

DLL Paradise and a Fall

APS overview – DLL paradise for Revit add-ins via named pipe IPC – Interprocess communication strategies and best practices – Using named pipes to communicate between different .NET versions – Interactions between .NET 4.8 and .NET 7 – Server / client transmission protocol – Connection management – Two-way communication... Read more →

Xgbxml Fixes Building Geometry Gaps

A mighty beautiful Python solution for fixing gaps in the building geometry and new AI-related titbits – Fixing building geometry gaps – Open and render gbXML BIM model – Identify gaps in geometry – Add missing surfaces – Verify waterproof – LLaVA large language and vision assistant – Moonvalley text to video – DETR model detects objects in images... Read more →

No Geometry, Touching Geometry and Cut Geometry

Discussions of BIM, geometry, pyRevit and AI news – pyRevit discourse – The BIM has no geometry – Get touching elements – What is a stable representation of a reference? – CUT_EDGE reference voodoo – Revit and IFC coordinate systems – Chinese influencer deepfakes livestreaming 24/7 – Generative AI use and misuse... Read more →