The Building Coder

LLM Prompting, RAG Ingestion and New Projects

New projects and progress using LLMs for Revit API – Add-In wizard 2025 – DirectContext3D video – Rvt-App browses BasicFileInfo – Revit API support prompt – pyRevit scripting prompt – Promptimal prompt optimiser – Jupyter Forge viewer – Superhuman multi-player poker – OpenAI o1 hacks and cheats – Writing Doom short film on superintelligence – Cosmos for physical AI – MarkItDown converts files to Markdown – NV-Ingest parses documents for RAG – Gitingest makes GitHub repos LLM-ready – LangSmith intro and LLM for dummies... Read more →

APS Accelerator and Q4R4 Chunking with Claude

Vacation time, accelerator time, and chunking TBC for LLM RAG – APS accelerator Barcelona in September – Q4R4 with LLM and RAG – Claude.ai helped chunk TBC blog posts – Vacation... Read more →

Pernickety Blogging

Some important, some less important and some absolutely pernickety recommendations on perfecting API-related blog posts... Read more →

Multi-Target Add-Ins, AI, Markdown and Job Offer

Let's finish this week with a blog post completely free of source code – but not of Revit API topics – Compiling add-ins for multiple Revit versions – Generative design for office planning – Handy Markdown tutorial – Job offer for senior software engineer in Tel Aviv... Read more →

Viewport Bring to Front and C++ Revit Add-In

Two topics today, on reordering viewports to determine their respective occlusion, and setting up a C++ Revit add-in project – Bringing a viewport to the front – Change the draw order of a viewport (bring to front) for cases when you need to use simplified duplicate of the same view for background, e.g., ceiling grid for example – Code clean-up – Setting up a Visual Studio C++ Revit add-in project... Read more →

tbc – The Building Coder Source and Index on GitHub

Developers frequently lament bad search functionality on Typepad-hosted blogs. Furthermore, it is always handy to have an offline local copy of any kind of important documentation you need to consult regularly. With a local copy of The Building Coder source text, you can use your standard system tools to search and index locally in any form you like. Finally, wouldn't it be nice to have a simple line-by-line index of all The Building Coder blog posts ever published? – Publishing The Building Coder source and index on GitHub – GitHub size limitations – Alternative blogging platforms – Fork and clone to create your own local installation – El Perro Semihundido by Goya... Read more →

Markdown, Fusion Accelerator $$$, Revisions and Bulk Upgrade

Today, I discuss my new Markdown blog post format, Fusion 360, the Fusion accelerator and a couple of Revit issues: Using the Markdown blog post format; Fusion 360; Fusion 360 for game artists; Fusion 360 accelerator; The Revit Revision API; Running a background bulk upgrade batch, Banksy's Dismaland bemusement park... Read more →