The Building Coder

Revit Future Direction and Public Roadmap

Here I am in Munich, supporting the one-week Forge accelerator workshop – Pizza and Isar – Public Revit Roadmap – Revit Idea Station – Revit Today and Tomorrow... Read more →

How to Create a New Line Style

I arrived safe and sound in Munich to provide support for the one-week Forge accelerator workshop at the Autodesk offices here – Arrival in Munich and Hotel Schlicker – Official pictures from RTC in Porto – Art of README – What is Join? – How to Create a Line Style... Read more →

RTC Revit API Panel, Idea Station, Edit and Continue

This morning saw some lively discussion in the Revit API Panel at the RTC Revit Technology Conference Europe – Panel Members – Questions and Answers – Notes from Previous Revit API Panel Sessions – Session Materials... Read more →

Connecting Desktop and Cloud RTC Material

I am in the last stages of preparing my presentation this afternoon on connecting the desktop and the cloud for the RTC Revit Technology Conference Europe. For your and the audience's convenience, here are the materials I am presenting, and some of the main links to further information – Handout – Slide deck – Recording – Samples Connecting Desktop and Cloud... Read more →

Roomedit3dv3 Up and Running with Demo Recording

I completed the roomedit3dv3 project – Enhancements to the Forge Node.js boilerplate code – RoomEditorApp Revit add-in update – Roomedit3dv3 demo recording – Samples connecting desktop and cloud – Forge Webinar Series 5 – Design Automation API... Read more →

Retrieving and Broadcasting the Roomedit3dv3 Translation

As I discussed last week, the translation tool emits info about its activity via socket.io. Now I want to pick up that information higher up, in the viewer transform extension, and relay it to the node.js web server or broadcast it to the rest of the world. The existing sample call to emit is inside onTxChange, which is called on each mouse move. We do not need to track each mouse movement in such fine detail... Read more →

Connecting Desktop and Cloud, Room Editor Update

Last week, I listed my three Revit Technology Conference classes on connecting the desktop and the cloud, The Building Coder chatroom, and published the full detailed handout of the lab on getting started with Revit macros. This week, I published the notes from the Revit API panel Q&A. So what do we have left to talk about? Oh yes, connecting the desktop and the cloud. That is actually the most interesting of the three, and also the topic of my Autodesk University session – Connecting the desktop and the cloud – Message and Takeaway – The 2D cloud-based round-trip room editor – FireRating in the cloud – The CompHound component tracker – Dotty animated 3D assembly instructions – Conclusion... Read more →

RTC, Budapest and the Revit API Panel

Last week, I listed my three Revit Technology Conference classes on connecting the desktop and the cloud, The Building Coder chatroom, and the full detailed handout of the lab on getting started with Revit macros. All three went very well. Today, I'll present the questions and answers from The Building Coder chatroom, which turned into a really interesting Revit API panel discussion, with the help of several fellow developers. Here are also some of the pictures I took... Read more →

RTC Classes and Getting Started with Revit Macros

I am presenting three classes at the Revit Technology Conference RTC – Autumn walk over Schauenburg – Full moon fire – Revit 2016 R2 – Session #44 Connecting the Desktop and the Cloud – Session #130 The Building Coder Chatroom – Session #161 Getting Started with Revit Macros... Read more →

Autodesk DevDays 2015 and CAD Trends

I am back from my vacation in Andalusia. Time to get through the email backlog and back to productive work again. No, not at all, time to get ready for the Revit Technology Conference next week, all-too-quickly followed by Autodesk University and the Autodesk DevDays 2015. Oh dear, in a hurry again. Time flies! The DevDays format is significantly changed from previous years – Autodesk DevDays 2015 with Accelerators – Kean's hsbcad Wood Construction Customer Visit – CAD Trends... Read more →