The Building Coder

RevitLookup for UR1, ADN, AEC and AU News

Here are some of the non-confidential items from the new confidential April 17 Autodesk Developer News newsletter, plus one or two additional items of interest from myself and elsewhere: AEC Technology Symposium Migrate Autodesk Exchange Apps and publish 2015 versions Proposals for Autodesk University 2014 Proposals for Autodesk University Germany 2014 Autodesk ReCap Connect Partnership Program RevitLookup for Revit 2015 UR1 Happy Easter! AEC Technology Symposium I already pointed out the upcoming AEC Technology Symposium in New York City on... Read more →

RevitLookup for Revit 2015

My first post dealing with Revit 2015 is dedicated to RevitLookup, the most important Revit database exploration tool, both for developers and interested non-developers. This is particularly urgent, since RevitLookup no longer is included in the standard Revit SDK (software development kit). It is now available from the RevitLookup GitHub repository instead. I created a preliminary version of RevitLookup for the Revit 2015 Meridian pre-release, just to ensure that everybody who needs access to this tool has it available right... Read more →

The GEOM_VISIBILITY_PARAM Visibility Settings

Here is an nice, useful and interesting example of a Revit API forum discussion thread and cooperative research between Remy van den Bor of ICN Solutions, Rudolf Honke of Mensch und Maschine acadGraph, the Revit development team, Joe Ye and your humble scribe on retrieving an element's detail view visibility settings, before wishing you and us all the best for the year of the horse: Remy: Hello Reviteers, Does anybody know how to get to the visibility settings in the... Read more →

Lots of Clouds

Let me recapitulate my cloud related explorations for my simplified 2D BIM editor, since I will be discussing it again at a web-based BIM workshop later this week. Before getting to that, though, talking about cloud related topics reminds me of some others of completely different nature that are near and dear to me: Clouds in La Palma Cloud Atlas Cloud-based simplified BIM editor Autodesk cloud service overview Updated RevitLookup on GitHub Above, in and under the Clouds of la... Read more →

ExportCncFab on GitHub and RevitLookup Update

I am in a hurry, still not finding time to prepare my AU classes, and lots going on. I published an add-in named ExportWallboard to automatically isolate and export wall parts individually to DXF for CNC fabrication back in March, still for Revit 2013, at the time. That utility is in use, was renamed to ExportCncFab and has enjoyed some further enhancement since, such as: Support for export to SAT as well as DXF A beautiful little external application to... Read more →

RevitLookup on GitHub and Invitation to Collaborate

I sincerely hope that everybody reading this is aware of the power and importance of RevitLookup, has already installed it, and is an avid user. If you do not know what I am talking about, please read these previous posts on the topic, noting that it was previously named RvtMgdDbg, short for 'Revit managed debugging tool': RvtMgdDbg Fixing RvtMgdDbg for MEP Connectors RvtMgdDbg for Revit 2010 RevitLookup Update Units and RevitLookup Getting Started with the Revit API RevitLookup is currently... Read more →