Free Revit Parameter Explorer Addin
This includes quite a bit of functionality for a free addin, including the ability to collect elements from the current Revit project, override them, edit data, and Excel import and export: Parameter …
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Enabling the Super Dark Black Theme on Excel and Other Office Programs
Go to: Excel Options, General, and select the ‘Black‘ setting under Office Theme. It looks really nice: This is the current Office version that allows this setting: This theme applies across all Offic…
Batch Checking Dependencies of your Dynamo Nodes and Packages
Every now and then, you may find that a package upgrade causes some of your nodes to stop working. This may be because nodes have been removed from the package that you were using. You can use the two…
Using a Pseudo Lookup Table Excel File to Drive Visibility for Many Generic Annotation Instances
Let’s say you have a Generic Annotation family with about 60 different view states controlled by visibility Yes/No checkboxes. These visibility states are linked to Sheets, and the Generic Annotation …
Automatically Import Data From Multiple Excel Files into one Worksheet With Power Query
Let’s say you have a set of Excel files and you want to feed that information into one Excel file, to allow you to do summaries or produce Charts. How would you go about it? Here is one way: Install P…
Double-click to go directly to linked cell in Excel
Something you might find very useful in BIM world, where Excel currently thrives and will continue to do so for the foreseeable(?) future. You need to adjust this option: And then if a cell references…
Dynamo For Dummies screencast… interested?
Check out this free ‘practice’ screencast from Marcello, demonstrating how to extract points from Dynamo to Excel, among other things:PRACTICAL DYNAMO EXERSIZE 4 EXTRACT POINTS TO EXCEL PRACTICE01 – S…
Using Dynamo to create a live Link between Excel and Revit
There are a myriad of ways to link spreadsheet data into Revit, including numerous addins to import and export data to Excel. There is also the Google Sheets connection. Recently, the BIM Troublemaker…
Pre-Cast Construction Simulation and Planning use Excel Programme, Dynamo Recursion and Revit Visualisation
Adam Sheather, aka gytaco, has put out some pretty interesting content in the past week. He was trying to solve a programming puzzle to do with pre-cast panels, molds, concrete curing etc. Based on hi…
Excel template for download: Navisworks Quantification Catalog Creation Template 2014 and 2015
Download at: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/sites/default/files/file_downloads/AutodeskNavisworksQuantificationCatalogCreationTemplate2014-2015.zip Page link viahttps://twitter.com/tschwaiger/status/46…