The Building Coder

Change Pipe Level and PreviewControl Border

Picking up two illuminating conversations from the Revit API discussion forum, we look at spying to suppress the PreviewControl border and changing the level of piping elements... Read more →

Camera Settings, Doors Traversed, Script on the Fly

New exciting Revit API solutions and furious pace of LLM development – Bowerbird C# scripting for Revit – Doors traversed by path of travel – Camera mapping between APS and Revit – Claude 3 can see – Devin, an AI software engineer – Meta Imagine generates images – An LLM for decompiling binary code – Simple climate change overview... Read more →

API Context, Input State and DA4R Debugging

We present a long-awaited solution to check for a valid Revit API context and a whole bunch of short pointers to other mostly AI-related topics of interest – Determining Revit API context – Detect Revit user input state – Easy Revit API – Gemini with image and video input – LLM is not self-aware – Generative AI transformer – Design to reduce junk data – C and C++ are risky – Ultra-processed food is toxic... Read more →