The Building Coder

Starter Kit, Books and Music

A search for Revit API related books, a very nice new Revit API starter kit, a richer and much more complex literary AI-related book, and a quick bottleneck steel guitar blues recording not related with any technical topic whatsoever – A very basic book on Revit API – Revit API starter kit – Machines like me – Bottleneck blues guitar... Read more →

Revit Camera Settings, Project Plasma, DA4R and AI

Here are this week's interesting items I want to share with you – Map Forge Viewer camera settings back to Revit – Project Quantum becomes Plasma – Mikako's DA4R overview – AI is affecting human game strategies – AI can convert speech to gesture – Barcelona Forge accelerator – Open positions at Autodesk... Read more →

AI, Trends and Yearly API Usage Cleanup

Same procedure as every year: eliminate all deprecated Revit API usage warnings before even thinking of migrating to the next major release. First, however, two other technical news items – Self-teaching AI surpasses human knowledge – CAD trends 2019 – Deprecated API usage warnings – Replace GetRules by GetElementFilter – Deprecated material asset accessors – Update with zero compilation warnings... Read more →

That BIM Girl and AskNow

I arrived in Rome Sunday afternoon and am now happy to be here at the Forge accelerator together with my Autodesk colleagues and the other attending companies. Before diving in further into the accelerator, I would like to point out the new inspiring AEC resources shared by That Bim Girl, and also post some notes to self on Q4R4 – That BIM Girl – Notes to Self on AskNow for Q4R4... Read more →

AI News and Sub-Transaction Regen

Things continue moving fast in AI, and the need to regenerate in the Revit API remains unchanged – AI News – Subtransaction Requires Regeneration... Read more →

Q4R4 – Revit API Question Answering System

I am back from my short vacation and raring to go again. I checked in to the Revit API discussion forum today, of course. I am much more interested in implementing a question answering system or QAS for the Revit API, though. Now I finally had a chat with a real human being who put me on the right track to getting started for real – The Revit API question answering system Q4R4 – Three steps towards implementing a QAS – Obsolete pre-Sacha notes... Read more →

TextNote Rotation, DevCon, TensorFlow and Keras

The Forge DevCon developer conference has been happily united with Autodesk University, text note rotation is easy, and I continued my deep learning exploration for implementing a Revit API question answering system – Forge DevCon at AU – Setting TextNote rotation – TensorFlow and Keras – Updating restricted Python packages – Rules of machine learning... Read more →

Vertical Dimensioning and Revit API QAS Research

Today, I highlight yet another interesting Revit API discussion forum thread and list my ongoing research links on implementing a Revit API question answering system – Creating vertical dimensioning – Revit API QAS research continued – QnA Maker – First steps with DeepDive – YodaQA, DL-Learner and OWL – My current open questions... Read more →

Virtuous Reproduction, Research, Settings, Ontology

I have probably asked developers for reproducible cases a couple of thousand times by now. Let's discuss that and also return to the topic of how to research a Revit API problem in general. Finally, I'll point out a Revit 2017 API MEP electrical feature. Oh, and I continued my research into deep learning for a Revit API question answering system – Creating a reproducible case may well solve the issue at hand – How to research to find a Revit API solution – Access to cable tray and conduit settings – Getting started implementing a question answering system – First impression from IBM Bluemix – Open source QAS options – Building a Revit API ontology... Read more →

AU in London and Deep Learning

I took a first look at deep learning for question answering systems. Before that, I share some news on AU in Europe, thoughts on UI and innovation, and point out a useful Revit API feature for converting a Hermite spline to Bezier – Autodesk University in London – Rules of thumb for change agents – Invisible user interfaces – Conclusions from lexical analysis of top news stories – Converting a Revit Hermite spline to Bezier or NURBS – Lots of literature on deep learning... Read more →