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I was recently working on a multi-vector dataset comparison in Deep Space. We had received Revit, Navisworks and tabular data, and I was comparing 3 different data drops of that information, particula…
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…
I came across this link to a Dynamo seminar by Sol Amour delivered in Wellington about a month ago. I have had a bit of contact with Sol over the years and he is a Dynamo pro. Cool to see that Dynamo …
Interesting little release by Dimitar Venkov on Github a few months ago. It is essentially a Python shell for Navisworks 2016. You install by unzipping as per instructions below. You may have heard ab…
The Revit API is actually something pretty special. People will go on and on about how Revit needs this feature or that feature, but the fact is that you can build almost any feature you like with the…
Have you ever wondered how to convert a Revit macro into an addin? You can follow Harry’s steps over at this post. What about getting some sample code for Python and Ruby Revit projects? From AEC DevB…
Daren Thomas started a GitBook to describe how RevitPythonShell and Revit interact, and perhaps you may find something useful that could assist with creating custom Python nodes for Dynamo… Download a…
Konrad and Mostapha are working on something, and the functionality does not look shrimpy at all. Check it out: “Mantis Shrimp is a Dynamo (Revit) and Grasshopper (Rhino) interoperability project that…
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Check out the solution suggested by Andreas Dieckmann: “I ended up using one of Python’s abilities to handle lists which is called groupby() because I did not want my head to hurt thinking about how t…