The Building Coder

LLM Prompting, RAG Ingestion and New Projects

New projects and progress using LLMs for Revit API – Add-In wizard 2025 – DirectContext3D video – Rvt-App browses BasicFileInfo – Revit API support prompt – pyRevit scripting prompt – Promptimal prompt optimiser – Jupyter Forge viewer – Superhuman multi-player poker – OpenAI o1 hacks and cheats – Writing Doom short film on superintelligence – Cosmos for physical AI – MarkItDown converts files to Markdown – NV-Ingest parses documents for RAG – Gitingest makes GitHub repos LLM-ready – LangSmith intro and LLM for dummies... Read more →

System Family Predicate and Python Section Creation

Today, we shed some light on family and section view creation – System family predicate – Level-based family template – Create section view in Python... Read more →

SDK, Add-In Wizard and TrackChanges Updates

Analysing the recent Revit SDK update, and still setting up my new Mac PC – What's new in Revit 2023.1 – Revit 2023.1 SDK update – Add-In wizard template in VS 2022 – Track work with element lister + TrackChanges... Read more →

BIM360 Links and Programming Add-Ins

An important solution to fix a problem loading BIM 360 links and lots of advice on programming Revit add-ins in general – New Revit material appearance asset – BIM 360 links not found solution – AppStore guidelines for Revit add-in – Coding Revit add-ins the e-verse way – VS wizard template location... Read more →

RevitTemplates Update 1.7.0

Feedback appreciated on RevitTemplates update 1.7.0... Read more →

DLL as Resource and Multi-Version Add-Ins

Lots of options to implement multi-version add-ins and examples showing how to store DLL dependencies in your add-in resources – Migration assistant rocks – ExportCncFab 2022 – Multi-version Revit add-in – Deploying a DLL file as a resource... Read more →

BIM360 Scripts, Dotnet Template and Prism Goodies

Philipp Mueller highlights a set of BIM360 user management scripts and Diego Rossi shares two useful GitHub repositories – BIM360 user management scripts – External application with Prism goodies – Revit add-in dotnet template... Read more →