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If you have gone through a process of saving Central models, and you have forgotten to ‘Synchronize with Central’ before closing them for the first time, you may find that your user has all User Creat…
Translated quote: Please download the macro down here: Download DeleteStandardMaterials Connect Revit. Unzip the zip file. The ZIP contains a DeleteStandardMaterials folder with two subfolders (AddIn …
The next generation of successful designers will have one important thing in common – the ability to quickly build the tool they need to accomplish a given task. Revit macro coding is one way to do th…
The problem – Appending a given NWC creates hundreds of lights in your NWF, as they were exported with light sources from Revit: Update: scroll to the bottom of the Autodesk Rendering, Lights pane and…
Paolo has posted an interesting bit of code that basically allows you to pick a floor element, and it will add points to a topography so that the topo follows the “points” on the Floor. A very interes…
Interestingly, this hotfix comes in the form of a macro to clean up your files. The issue as stated on the Autodesk Knowledge Network is:In Revit 2015 the performance of some file is very slow. This m…
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…
There is a macro at:Finding those constraining dimensions | Boost Your BIM…
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 …