The Building Coder

Journals, Logging, Progress Bar, AEC, AI and CO2

A nice new collection of Revit API, AI and AEC related topics – Accountability, Logging and Journals – WPF progress bar with abort button – Sublime text – Interesting AI motivation: ensure it goes well – Now you see it, now you don't – BIM-GPT AI BIM information retrieval – AEC greenwashing – IKEA life at home report – Climpact carbon footprint action comparison... Read more →

Parameters, Snippets, Batch Mode and Self-Signing

Test run the Revit 2023 parameters service cloud – Roll your own verified publisher – Revit API code snippet repository – Batch processing and monitoring progress... Read more →

Analysis of Macros, Journals and Add-In Manager

Looking at Revit macro usage, add-in manager debug/trace functionality and journal analysis in Python and Dynamo – Revit macro study shareback – Add-in manager with debug trace – Journal file analysis – Plugging the HSL colour format... Read more →

Logging and Monitoring Deleted Data

Useful insights on logging and monitoring – Monitoring with SLOG – Monitoring deleted elements – How to Favicon – Decentralised autonomous organisations – Palindrome and ambigram... Read more →

Auto-Executing an External Command

I had an extensive discussion on automatically driving Revit from outside to auto-execute a simple functionality with no user input, originally implemented by an external command. Also, a big thank you to all for the numerous congratulations on The Building Coder's eleventh birthday – Auto-executing an external command – Eleventh birthday congratulations... Read more →

Batch Processing and Aspects of AsStringValue

I avoid answering non-confidential questions in private, as I tell everyone who tries to do so. However, some non-confidential queries still come in via ADN. Here are two that came in today that might be of general interest and therefore seem worth sharing – Batch processing Revit families and documents – AsString and AsValueString results differ... Read more →

Preparing a Revit Add-in for Design Automation

Today I discuss the next step in my IfcSpaceZoneBoundaries project, how to prepare a Revit add-in for use in the DA4R or Design Automation for Revit environment and figuring out how to best handle it in the VS solution – Context, add-in functionality and history – Preparing the add-in for DA4R – Local testing versus live deployment – User defined input arguments for DA4R – Logging of results... Read more →