The Building Coder

Highlighting Revit Rooms in the Forge Viewer

I am leaving Athens today. The Athens Forge meetup and web server workshop at The Cube went well. Now it is full steam ahead towards the Forge DevCon in San Francisco week after next. Not to forget the 3D Web Fest on June 15, in parallel with Forge DevCon, showcasing the best of the 3D web as live performance art with a catered reception in a film festival atmosphere... Read more →

My Mac Died and I am Alive in Greece

I had a couple of eventful days – My Mac crashed – Setting up the new Mac – Recompiling the samples connecting BIM and cloud – Travel to Athens – Athens Forge Meetup – Athens Forge Workshop... Read more →

Room Editor – First Revit 2017 Addin Migration

A wonderful Monday morning to you. We are enjoying perfect April weather, rapidly oscillating back and forth between warm sprintime sunshine, sleet and hail. Meanwhile, I am continuously striving hard yet failing miserably to reduce my pure Revit API focussed case answering and Revit API activity – Things To Do – Forge DevCon developer conference – RoomEditorApp for Revit 2017 – Roomedit CouchDB installation on Windows – FireRatingCloud enhancements completed and upcoming – First Revit 2017 deprecated API clean-up – Where BIM hasn't gone... Read more →

RealDWG, AutoCAD I/O, View & Data API Meetup

Are you interested in reading or writing DWG files directly, without installing AutoCAD? Querying? Viewing? Editing? Would you like to expand your solutions to support mobile devices and the web? Would you like to avoid implementing different or new application code to support desktop, mobile and web apps? Hear about the most efficient, reliable and robust solutions at the upcoming 'I Love DWG' meetup in Prague next Tuesday evening, September 8, using RealDWG, AutoCAD I/O and the View and Data API for DWG viewing and manipulation on any device, regardless of mobile, desktop, OS... Read more →

AngelHack Athens, Sustainability and Export Precision

AngelHack Athens is in full swing, Autodesk has committed to 100% sustainability, Scott Conover explains some Revit export precision and tolerance aspects, and I am leaving on vacation next week: AngelHack Athens hackathon Autodesk commits to 100% renewable energy Revit export precision and tolerance Vacation time AngelHack Athens Hackathon We held the second I love 3D – Athens meetup yesterday with 19 interested and enthusiastic participants: I posted the full details and links to all the important View and Data... Read more →

Cloning a Solid, AngelHack, 3D Web Fest and Dubai

The Revit 2016 offers a whole host of exciting new functionality that I am dying to try out, e.g.: Custom exporter supports 2D output Improved ReferenceIntersector linked model support DirectShape supports curves, points and references Cool new Geometry API functionality And much, much more... Too little time! At least I can mention one useful aspect of the new geometry API that came in handy for an issue that came up yesterday. I am in Dubai right now, preparing for the... Read more →

Gross and Net Wall Area Calculation Enhancement

We make further enhancements to the on-going project to determine gross and net areas and volumes, obviously a fundamental issue to BIM. And I have more news to share as well: Playing with my WebGL viewer WebGL Developers meetup in NYC April 21 AEC Hackathon in Dallas May 1-3 Angelhack in Dubai May 7-9 Angelhack in Athens June 5-7 Wall area calculation handling multiple openings in multiple walls in multiple rooms Playing with my WebGL Viewer My last post was... Read more →

Terminating a Family Instance Placement Loop with Esc

I presented the PromptForFamilyInstancePlacement method in June 2010 when it was newly introduced in the Revit API, together with a nice little solution temporarily subscribing to the OnDocumentChanged to access the newly added elements after terminating the placement interaction. Since then, the Revit 2015 API provided some Document API additions such as the method UIDocument.PostRequestForElementTypePlacement enabling an add-in to launch and to some extents control the full standard placement interaction between user and the Revit product. To retain control over... Read more →

Understanding the Use of the UniqueId

Here is a thread from the Revit API discussion forum on understanding the use of the UniqueId between Erik Eriksson and Arnošt Löbel, Sr. Principal Engineer of the Autodesk Revit R&D team, that I find very valuable and therefore edited, for preservation and clarity: Question: In the early days, I thought that ElementId was a stable way of finding elements in a document, then I learned that UniqueId was the proper way. But I haven't been able to find enough... Read more →

Back from The Conference Tour and Wrapping Up

Things have been a bit hectic the last couple of weeks, just like every December, what with Autodesk University and the DevDays Conferences. I am still cleaning up various open issues and looking forward to settling down into Christmas real soon now. Here are a couple of items to share from the last few days: AU 2014 classes online Family type preview images InfraWorks 360 REST API Moscow DevDays, Meetups and Hackathon Milano JavaScript Meetup I Love 3D More Wrapping... Read more →

Milano Meetups and My New NFC Business Card

We completed the DevDays conference and Meetup in Munich and now arrived in Milano, bella Italia. Tonight we are holding our Inaugural 3D Lovers Meetup here at Coworking LOGIN, Via Stefanardo da Vimercate 28, Milano. We only just noticed that another interesting inaugural meetup is taking place in the same location at the same time, the First MEAN Event: Break the Ice. MEAN stands for MongoDB, Express, Angular.js and Node.js, so you can see how well it fits. Main topic... Read more →

DevDays, GitHub, STL and OBJ Model Import

Long time no post. Sorry, I am rather caught up in the DevDays conferences, accompanying meetups and travel back and forth across the continent. After the first Western European DevDays conference and meetup in Paris on Monday, we continued and repeated in London, UK, and Gothenburg, Sweden. We had a day's break there, and I took a quick bus and ferry ride out to Styrsö before leaving. Now we have arrived in Munich, Germany, and the last goal for Tuesday... Read more →

DevDays Conference and Meetup in Paris

I left Autodesk University, Las Vegas, and travelled to Paris via London. DevDay and Meetup Today, we held the first West European DevDays conference here, followed by a meetup on reality capture, 3D on the web and 3D printing in the Ecole des ingenieurs de la Ville de Paris (eivp-paris.fr). From here, we continue to London, Gothenburg, Munich and Milano during the coming ten days. Jasper Unexpectedly, I got to meet Jasper Desmet, whom I previously only knew by email.... Read more →

Functional Programming, View and Data API Demos

I spent Monday evening at the interesting meetup workshop on functional programming in JavaScript led by basel.js meetup group regular Lukasz Gintowt. All available seats were taken with 20 participants. Follow the link above to get to all the interesting material we looked at. It reminded me somewhat of the early days of AutoCAD programming, where the more elegant AutoLISP solutions tended towards functional programming... Remember car, cdr, mapcar, apply and lambda? Basically, that is part of what we talked... Read more →

DevDay, Meetup and Hackathon Event Calendar

Here is a list of upcoming events, most of which I will be involved in in one way or another: DevDays 2014 DevDay & DevHack in Las Vegas Meetups and Hackathons DevDays 2014 Here is the list of cities and dates where our DevDays events 2014 will be held around the world later this year. These events are accessible to ADN members. If you are not an ADN member and still would be interested in learning more about application development... Read more →

Basel.js Meetup View and Data API Demo

I am busy right now answering Revit API cases as usual, and preparing my Basel.js meetup View and Data API presentation for tomorrow evening. One of the cases caused me to add yet another iteration to last Friday's note on how to empower yourself to search for an answer on the Internet. Also, before I get to the technical stuff, let me mention that I went climbing again last weekend, after a long break, and in spite of the rather... Read more →