The Building Coder

Length Query and RevitLookup Heralds DLL Paradise

New RevitLookup solves Revit add-in DLL hell, and a clarification on the arc length properties provided by curve elements – Curve Length versus ApproximateLength – RevitLookup dependency isolation ends DLL hell – Add-in dependencies isolation... Read more →

Entitlement API for Revit, Licensing for Add-Ins

Two illuminating posts from the Revit API discussion forum on licensing and the entitlement API – Multi-version Revit entitlement API – Add-in licensing... Read more →

RevitLookup Geometry Visualisation

New RevitLookup BIM element geometry visualization, and 1000 GitHub stars – Versions 2025.0.5, 2025.0.6 and 2025.0.7 – Wiki... Read more →

Removing Docs Zip Files, Panels and Buttons

A call for feedback on a planned change downloading a RCM from Docs, a tricky solution to remove ribbon panels and buttons, and a bunch of news bites that I found interesting on sustainability, language and AI discoveries; new EU AEC energy ruling, ecological wooden buildings in Scandinavia, spoken human language speed and information density, AI uses as a hearing aid enhancement, weather forecasting, interface assistant, AI open-source and future directions... Read more →

Revit 2025 API Video and Hiding Linked Elements

The video recording on what's new in the Revit 2025 API has been released, and we discuss a nice example combining element pre-selection and PostCommand – Revit 2025 API video – Hiding linked elements... Read more →