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As software and standards mature and even become archaic, they inevitably attract baggage along the way. Years of technical debt amassed by well-intentioned developers and product managers will be pai…
There have been different ways of accomplishing this over the years. Now, with Dynamo, I would use this simple two step process: Create a unique type for each Planting or Entourage element (as Height …
XML files are everywhere. And in the BIM world, we have to deal with a range of different xml file schemas, such as BCF, Navisworks Clash Reports and Viewpoints, and so forth. Hiding inside these XMLs…
I’ve had a bit of struggle with Package Manager lately, but I’m happy to report I was able to get a new version of Bakery uploaded today. I’m pretty sure my issue was ‘too many backups in the dyfbacku…
Update… v2 has been published in Bakery package as:Create Floors From Rooms v2.dyf All kinds of weirdness with Package Manager at the moment, so I am sharing my entire ‘packages’ folder including Bake…
Konrad has put together some very handy nodes to work with Revisions in Dynamo and Revit. I have packaged up a simple implementation of these in my Bakery package that takes a list of sheets, gets the…
It is pretty difficult to change the Workset of Pipe Insulation. The Properties Palette allows you to change them one at a time (but not multiple), while the method I posted about previously can chang…
Update Method 1: after seeing my post, Troy Wright kindly shared his take on this. It uses only one custom node – Eraser by Julien – and it also works for Revisions that have been ‘ticked’ as issued, …
Here’s how: Make a View parameter (Text) in Revit that will hold the list of RVT Links that are visible in a given view Install Dynamo and my Bakery package Go to the required View Set up your definit…
Cooking in the Bakery today: From here we could export a list of Element IDs to CSV, make a Selection Set by Elements using Clockwork, or use one of the Select in Revit nodes. As you can see, to make …