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I love it when people take something I hacked together and make it even better! A while ago I posted a script to disable all Revit addins, and recently Thomas Vogt sent me some much improved versions.…
Back in March 2015, I posted a script that I had created to disable all Revit addins. That was put together in Powershell and was a pretty severe and somewhat ugly method to use. Happily, earlier this…
via email:… updates to IFC for Revit 2015 and IFC for Revit 2016, which you can get to using the links below: IFC for Revit 2015 (v15.5): http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=appst…
Did you ever notice this handy little selection toolset? Pretty cool, huh? Update: Dieter has correctly pointed out that these selection tools are part of the Bimits package:http://www.bimits.eu/bimit…
Warning: some have had unexpected results, use with care.Update: one reader discovered that C:Program FilesAutodeskRevit 2015AddIns is yet another path that Revit uses. The script below has not been m…
When building Revit addins, you may want to implement some specific selection filter. Here is some more good stuff via Alexander Buschmann and The Building Coder: The zip file SelFilters.zip contains …
Have you seen the BIM One Batch NWC Exporter? Its a free little addin for Revit that allows you to select multiple views and export them to NWCs all in one go. It works well, but it doesn’t have all t…
Can be downloaded from Autodesk Exchange. This addin allows direct import of 3DM (*.3dm) files into Navisworks 2015. You no longer need to go via DWG / DXF / STL… Open embedded content: www.youtube.co…
One of the most popular addins for Revit to date is the simple section box tool by Coins. But what about doing the same thing in 2D? Paolo has put together a macro (and shared the code) that crops a P…
In the past, some users have automated Revit to NWC export to happen overnight using customized journal files. Kyle Morin has now created an addin that monitors model changes and automatically keeps y…