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I love it when people take something I hacked together and make it even better! A while ago I posted a script to disable all Revit addins, and recently Thomas Vogt sent me some much improved versions.…
Sometimes you will want to monitor a folder for changes, and possibly export a file list to Excel for consumption in some other format, or perhaps as part of a notification workflow. I adapted a Power…
After Google Reader was decommissioned, I was happy to find that inoreader was an excellent replacement. But one feature was missing: free and easy RSS Feed Translation. Did you know you can deploy yo…
Warning: some have had unexpected results, use with care.Update: one reader discovered that C:Program FilesAutodeskRevit 2015AddIns is yet another path that Revit uses. The script below has not been m…
In one recent post, Paul Crickard describes how you can use a URL field in a Revit schedule to: open documents or images open a video open a map or facility plan to a specific geographical location re…
From Revit Randoms – Download the files here: Upgrade_PurgeUnused.zip Extract to a folder of families you want to purge. Copy the first family in your category and paste and rename it in the same fold…
This technique allows file operations and programs to be initiated from an in-canvas Revit modelling session, without the need to switch to Windows Explorer. Basically, you just need a Symbol family w…
To add the right click menu option for VBS files: Download this file Extract it Right click on ElevateWSHScript.inf and click Install Done You can now right-click on VBS files and use the Run as Admin…
I wanted to grab a list of files so I could check if I had reviewed the contents of some MEP training videos. You can easily do this using a Windows Powershell script. Code example: get-childitem “T:M…
An announcement was made recently on the “Revit Deployment & Management for Medium Sized Offices” Udemy course (see here for more info): We seem to have just discovered an interesting “bug” in Deploym…