The Building Coder

Vipassana and Idling versus External Events

I am leaving for a ten-day Vipassana meditation retreat next week, so I'll cram in this quick Saturday post on the meditation retreat and mindfulness before I have too much to do getting prepared next week. It includes yet another discussion of Idling versus external events for modeless dialogues and dockable panels. Vipassana means 'seeing'. In this case, seeing is enhanced by concentration on my own self, my body, my mind, my thoughts. No talking, no communication whatsoever, no Internet, no mobile devices, no pen and paper, no reading. No input, no output. Sitting... Read more →

Accessing Discipline and Duplicating View Template

I am back again in the land of the living... working, blogging. I'll jump right ... Read more →

Dynamically Hide and Display a Ribbon Panel

Here is a quick little question on dynamically toggling the display of a custom ribbon panel, e.g. depending on the currently activated Revit disciplines. First, however, let me share this nice and wise little quote regarding the current weather situation and actually life and happiness in general from the German humourist Karl Valentin (1882-1948): I am happy if it rains – because if I am unhappy, it still goes on raining (Ich freue mich, wenn es regnet – denn wenn... Read more →

Determine Revit Demo Mode Revisited

Almost a year back, we talked about how to determine whether the current running Revit application is a demo version or not. The initial suggestion was to test this by trying to execute real functionality modifying the model and then save it. That obviously incurs significant overhead and may cause other problems as well. Rudolf Honke suggested simply reading and evaluating the Revit main window title text instead. Now Madmed created and posted an implementation of Rudolf's idea. I took... Read more →

Create Structural Plan View

Today is the last day of the last week before the AEC DevCamp in Waltham. Here are the complete session list and descriptions. I have to submit my material today. Before doing so, one last post on a pure API topic: I mentioned that Revit 2013 introduced a new view API and now includes the possibility to create schedules and section views. Here is a question that came up regarding the new view creation and Onebox and leads to a... Read more →

Migrate Building Coder Samples to Revit 2013

I migrated The Building Coder samples to Revit 2013. Revit Onebox Before diving into that, however, a short note on Revit Onebox. Here is a comparison matrix of the features provided by the different flavours, all of which are available in the Onebox version. There is even a short 1.5 minute youtube video on the topic. Question: I would like to install the Revit 2013 Onebox product which contains Revit Architecture, Structure and MEP as one product. Where can I... Read more →