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Most of you already know how highly I recommend Harry Mattison. He is completely at peace with the Revit API, and he knows instinctively how to solve Revit coding challenges that are out of reach for …
It uses nested “divided path” components that are repeated in X and Y directions… Open embedded content: www.youtube.com viahttp://revitbeyondbim.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/making-a-adaptive-grid-in-rev…
Check it out:https://autodesk360.geckoboard.com/dashboards/23708A59DAE03700 viahttp://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2013/08/gecko-board-for-autodesk-exchange-app-publishers.html…
Daniel Stine hosted the interestingly named RTC class:Mastering Materials: Getting What You Want from Revit In a recent Cadalyst article, he gives a few good material tips. Here are just 3 of them: 1)…
In our case, we had to add local PC “Users” permissions for Full Control to this file:“C:ProgramDataAutodeskApplicationPluginsADSK-IFCExportUI2014.bundlePackageContents.xml” I recommend that you revie…
To add the right click menu option for VBS files: Download this file Extract it Right click on ElevateWSHScript.inf and click Install Done You can now right-click on VBS files and use the Run as Admin…
Just hold down Ctrl button while scrolling with mouse wheel… I have tested this (non exhaustively) on Revit 2013 and Windows 7, and it works fine on the following dialogs: the Properties Palette (wow!…
Have you ever used Reconcile Hosting? When you click the appropriate button in the Ribbon, a new UI panel appears (see image below). You can also assign a Keyboard Shortcut to this panel, although it …
See below a series of links on IPD, VDC and BIM generally. Interestingly, this information comes from a contract / legal perspective: Moving Design-Build closer to IPD IPD Framework Integrated Project…
As most of you probably know, the call for RTC2013 abstracts has gone out. Here are some bits and pieces from RTC2012 that you can check out online. Reconstructing the AEC process (Jay Zallan):PDF Dow…