The Building Coder

Add-In Registration – VendorId and Signature

I am taking lots of time off in July, so this may be my last post for a while. Before leaving, I will share my answers to a list of pertinent questions on add-in registration, especially how to populate the add-in manifest VendorId tag and handle the trusted digital DLL signature – Add-in registration – VendorId – Add-in registration – trusted digital add-in signature – Vacation in July... Read more →

BIM 360 Docs, Add-In Folders, Stallman and Abc

I am going to the University of Bern this afternoon to listen to Richard Stallman speak For A Free Digital Society. Here are some other recent and not-so-recent topics – BIM 360 Docs – Richard Stallman in Switzerland – Is the abc conjecture proven? – Add-In Folders – BIM 360 Docs is the new Autodesk platform for construction document management. It provides web services to ensure that the entire project team is always building from the correct version of documents, plans, and models... Read more →

Accelerator, AppStore, Disqus and AEC DevBlog Articles

Lots of things happening, making it challenging to find time for my Milano trip preparations: Accelerator in Prague One million AppStore downloads Responsive blogs now use Disqus comments Great series of AEC DevBlog articles: PipeScheduleType is missing for a RTE file Reading ASHRAE Table information from elements Reading Loss Methods available on Revit MEP Creating dimensioning between two detail components Placing a FamilyInstance on a wall face How to create a coloured detail line in family? How to create revision... Read more →

From Hack to App – OBJ Mesh Import to DirectShape

I already took a couple of looks at the DirectShape element in the past: DirectShape Performance and Minimum Size DirectShape versus Families, Category and Texture A much deeper investigation was prompted by Eric Boehlke of truevis.com, knowledgeable in architecture and above all in photogrammetry. Eric visited the DevHack at Autodesk University in December 2014. Together, right there and then, we put together a prototype Revit add-in that reads an OBJ file and creates a DirectShape element from it. Eric continued... Read more →

Hackathon, the Climate and my CO2 Footprint

Last week, I attended an interesting and rather sobering presentation on sustainability by Niko Paech entitled Befreiung vom Überfluss – liberation from excessive abundance – the German title is shorter and sounds better, for a change. That prompted me to have a look at my own CO2 footprint. This just happened to coincide more or less with the People's Climate March taking place simultaneously all around the world, including ten thousand participands in Berlin, Geneva and Zurich. Before getting to... Read more →

Job Opportunities, Events, Plans and Planes

Lots of stuff is going on and we have an exciting heavy duty weekend ahead of us: ADN API evangelist job opportunities Autodesk Exchange Apps hackathon this weekend October events and travel in Europe Comparing a plane and a face ADN API Evangelist Job Opportunities I recently mentioned an ADN API evangelist job opening in San Francisco. We are actually looking for other talented new people to join the ADN DevTech team as well. The main openings right now are... Read more →

Autodesk Exchange Apps Hackathon

I am having a nice break. Here is a little news item on an exciting and profitable upcoming event to let you know I am still alive. Let's start with a brief historical flashback: Autodesk Exchange Apps Portathon September 13-14, 2013 Last year, we held the first Autodesk Exchange App Portathon: Earn $100 submitting an Autodesk Exchange app Exchange App Videos and DevTV YouTube Channel Portathon Reminder Cloud and AppStore Usage Growth Portathon Day One Portathon Day Two This year,... Read more →

Exchange Apps Webinar Recording and Resources

As you certainly know by now, the Autodesk Exchange Stores provide an efficient means to showcase and distribute your applications addressing a large world-wide audience. Furthermore, it is very easy. As krispy just said in this Revit API forum thread on creating an installer for a Revit application, "You can just zip up the files they require (dll, addin, etc.) and upload that... the exchange app team will create the installer for you. They are pretty good with telling you... Read more →

AEC Hackathon, DevGuide URL and AppStore Webinar

As mentioned, I registered for the upcoming AEC Symposium and Hackathon in New York this coming weekend, May 16-18. You can learn more about both at http://core.thorntontomasetti.com/aec-technology-symposium-2014, and especially check out the interesting projects proposed for the AEC Hackathon. I'm looking forward very much to that and would be happy to meet you there! Revit API Developer Guide Shortcut URL The Revit API Developer Guide shortcut URL has changed and is now www.autodesk.com/revitapi-help. To my utter shock and chagrin, the... Read more →