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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…
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…
… by using a very wild script from dp Stuff! Comes with a disclaimer:Warning! Make sure you don’t run this script on your central model – detach it from central first. Because once the views are gone …
I have previously posted about RevitPythonShell a number of times. In this post Dima Chiriacov gives a real-world example on using the shell to change the case of text. There are quite a number of fre…
RevitPythonShell has some competition! Its called RevitRubyShell. RevitRubyShell on Github – installer What is Ruby? Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language…
Nathan Miller strikes again: I am creating a strange ‘catenary’ surface with Kangaroo and Grasshopper. I am then feeding the information into an Excel spreadsheet and reconstructing the shape using Ad…
You can implement randomization in your scripts using the .NET Random class. For example the following code will return a random double number between 0 and 1 in the RevitPythonShell… Read more at:Rev…
Nathan Miller has been working on a number of cool things for some years now. In one recent post about Slingshot for Revit, he states “the tool will provide different means of connecting Revit (and Va…
Another major addition to 1.1 includes the addition of two additional sample libraries available as separate downloads: PyKinect for working with the Kinect Beta SDK and Pyvot for working with Excel s…