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This is a pretty basic lesson, but just in case you aren’t doing it already… Adding a default value to your input nodes can make your custom nodes much more useful (and possibly easier for others to u…
I got a virtual tap on the shoulder from Brian Nickel over at The Revit Saver today. He said he had been “searching for an answer like this for a year or two, and the guy posted it two days ago overse…
Have you ever wondered if there are API commands for addressing or automating Type Catalog information in Revit? A recent post from Jeremy Tammik covered some of this. In it, he discusses the differen…
Let’s say you have 50 sheets with one viewport on each, and you want to nudge all those viewports around the sheet a little bit. Difficult? Use a couple of nodes from Bakery to grab the Viewport eleme…
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If you have done a clean install of Autodesk products, you may find that the older versions of Application Manager are a bit slow to get going. Just install version 5 straight up to get things updatin…
Press release: link here Main page:http://academy.autodesk.com/ Advanced Dynamo: http://academy.autodesk.com/curriculum/bim-advanced-computational-design Previous post: What Revit Wants: In case you m…
This Labs project was distributed a while back, but it timed out and the addin won’t usually run anymore. Its purpose was basically to import a .RIF file from cadMEP back into Revit with some intellig…
Paweł Romaniuk has shared his workflow to take various parameters from a model, run the necessary algorithms and then write the area back to a parameter for use in a Revit schedule. Link to pdf downlo…
There is no immediately easy way to override the colour of an entire Revit Link. Of course, you can set up a View Template and override all of the individual subcategories, but that can get time consu…