Here are some of the topics I dealt with in the last couple of days
– CMake and YoAudio
– AutoCAD and Revit SDK Access and Content
– Determining AreaLoad direction and value from its force vectors
– ExportCncFab 2018...
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I implemented the Revit ExportCncFab add-in back in 2013 to export Revit wall parts to DXF or SAT for CNC fabrication. The full source code, Visual Studio solution and add-in manifest lives in the ExportCncFab GitHub repository. The project was prompted by William Spier, who recently published a nice 12-minute YouTube video Revit to CNC Direct describing and demonstrating its practical use and application: In William's words: "Asked Jeremy to write a DLL that allows users to export multiple objects...
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The topic of CNC fabrication of Revit BIM elements is continuing to grow in popularity. As you already know, I published the ExportWallboard add-in to automatically isolate and export wall parts individually to DXF for CNC fabrication, then enhanced, renamed and published it on GitHub as ExportCncFab for William Spier's Autodesk University class on Design to Fabrication. Those discussions were explicitly related to CNC fabrication up front. Numerous other topics here are also useful in that context. I was unable...
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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...
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During my recent vacation, I published a description by my colleague Akira Kudo describing how to research the Revit SDK samples to find all the required bits and pieces to solve the task of saving a temporary in-memory Revit solid to an external SAT file. Victor Chekalin, or Виктор Чекалин, reacted to that and provides a complete Visual Studio project to demonstrate the full implementation of that functionality. You can download it as a zip archive or clone the project...
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As I announced, I am currently on vacation. Still, I don't want to leave you or The Building Coder completely abandoned for too long, so here is a quick question recently answered by my colleague Akira Kudo: Question: How can I save a solid to a file, please? I searched for an applicable API call, but without success. I am not trying to save a Revit element, or I could use the existing Export methods. My object is an Autodesk.Revit.DB.Solid...
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