The Building Coder

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 →

PickPoint with WPF and No Threads Attached

Here is another contribution from Saied Zarrinmehr, of the BIM-SIM Research Group at the Texas A&M University, on the thread safety of the Selection.PickPoint method in Revit 2014 and 2015, resulting in a sample testing different methods for hiding and unhiding a WPF window. I trust they are interesting and useful for people working with Revit 2016 as well. Before getting to that, Calvin and Hobbes anniversary... Read more →

Fill Pattern Viewer Fix and Add Materials for 2016

@kfpopeye discovered and fixed an issue with complex fill patterns in the venerable old WPF Fill Pattern Viewer Control, part of the AddMaterials Revit add-in to load new materials into a project based on a list defined in an Excel spreadsheet – Original implementation for Revit 2011 – Reimplementation for Revit 2014 – Improved error messages and reporting – WPF FillPattern viewer control – Check for already loaded materials – FillPattern viewer benchmarking... Read more →

Opening and Activating Document in an Event Handler

I have been a busy beaver with the Revit API on the discussion forum in the past few days, and on GitHub as well. I want to take a closer look at two related issues that date back a little bit further: Switching active documents is not allowed during API event handling Loading a RVT project file automatically on start-up Let's discuss the first today and save the second for later. Before getting to that, I also want to mention... Read more →