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You might be surprised at some of the cool samples that are included in the Revit SDK – which is likely already installed on your system. Here are a few notes on pathing that may assist: Build Revit A…
Have you ever experienced the “Missing Third Party Updater” message? It comes about when an Updater (addin or macro) is in use, and then does not exist on a PC that is new to the project. From sasha.v…
I don’t think the API programmers should get scared just yet, but is there a day coming when visual programming will completely replace custom code? Julien seems to think so: “I firmly believe Dynamo …
Autodesk offers several different browser-based user interfaces for different reality capture scenarios.They all use the same underlying ReCap REST API.You need a special developer key to make use of …
Download these archives, which contain sample source code, presentations (Revit2014APITrainingPresentation), Word documents and more:Revit 2014 API LabsRevit 2013 API Labs via Autodesk – Autodesk Deve…
If you want to submit Revit API code and macros for public review and use, check out: https://bitbucket.org/BoostYourBIM/revit_api_public Now, we just need someone to make an API add-in that hooks int…
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 …
I was going to make a script or something myself, but I figured there is a API-guy out there waiting to make something useful and simple like this. Challenge: make a tool (can be an application, scrip…
You may have already heard about Boost Your BIM – a new and quite prolific programming (API and macro) blog for Revit by Harry Mattison. If his recent posts are anything to go by, this blog should be …
Thanks to Jeremy Tammik at The Building Coder: The recording of the Revit 2013 API webcast that we held on May 17 is now available from the ADN DevTech Webcast Recordings Archive, entering “Revit API”…