The Building Coder

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 →

Elasticsearch-Head, RevitLookup and Area Schemes

I ran the first query on the collection of tbc blog posts imported into Elasticsearch to experiment for the question answering system Q4R4 Question Answering for Revit API and installed the elasticsearch-head web front end to better explore and understand my local Elasticsearch cluster – Elasticsearch text field mapping – Elasticsearch-head web front end – More RevitLookup updates – Get area scheme from an area... Read more →

Q4R4 tbc Import and RevitLookup

I started working on the question answering system Q4R4 Question Answering for Revit API. The first step is to import The Building Coder blog posts into Elasticsearch and experiment with full-text queries on them. Furthermore, we are proud to present yet more enhancements to the revamped version of RevitLookup – Q4R4 sources and result presentation – Importing tbc blog posts into Elasticsearch – Listing and clearing the Elasticsearch tbc index – Strip and clean up HTML for JSON document – Q4R4 GitHub repo and tbcimport.py script – RevitLookup bug fixes – RevitLookup icons... 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 →