The Building Coder

Connecting Desktop and Cloud, Room Editor Update

Last week, I listed my three Revit Technology Conference classes on connecting the desktop and the cloud, The Building Coder chatroom, and published the full detailed handout of the lab on getting started with Revit macros. This week, I published the notes from the Revit API panel Q&A. So what do we have left to talk about? Oh yes, connecting the desktop and the cloud. That is actually the most interesting of the three, and also the topic of my Autodesk University session – Connecting the desktop and the cloud – Message and Takeaway – The 2D cloud-based round-trip room editor – FireRating in the cloud – The CompHound component tracker – Dotty animated 3D assembly instructions – Conclusion... Read more →

RTC Classes and Getting Started with Revit Macros

I am presenting three classes at the Revit Technology Conference RTC – Autumn walk over Schauenburg – Full moon fire – Revit 2016 R2 – Session #44 Connecting the Desktop and the Cloud – Session #130 The Building Coder Chatroom – Session #161 Getting Started with Revit Macros... Read more →

PostCommand causes Internal Exceptions, a Break

For the past few years now, the development team has been adding various checks to prevent illegal use of Revit API entry points from outside a valid Revit API context. Read all about the valid Revit API context and how to access it – Idling and External Events for modeless access and driving Revit from outside – New checks were just added in the Revit 2016 service pack 2 which uncovered more long-standing illegal API calls – CompHound connects desktop and cloud – Do not call `PostCommand` from a modeless context – Do Not Call `PostCommand` from an `Idling` Event Handler – Vacation time... Read more →

SVG, In-Memory Family, RevitLookup BoundingBox

The cloud accelerator kept me busy last week, I am working hard on the CompHound project and documenting that work on The 3D Web Coder. Besides that, I submitted several enhancements to various Revit add-in projects. Here are some of my recent activities – CompHound component tracker project development – RevitLookup displays element bounding box – SvgExport for Revit 2016 – In-memory family creation and structural stiffener migration from 2012 to 2016... Read more →

FireRating in the Cloud and RevitLookup Update

I am currently working intensely at the Autodesk Cloud Accelerator in Prague. I spent a lot of my time so far enhancing the FireRating in the Cloud sample. – FireRating in the Cloud enhancements – RevitLookup update to handle null analytical model – Retrieving all model elements... Read more →