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After a new version of Revit comes out, we all take some time to catch up. Revit API developers often have to get up and running really quickly so they can upgrade their apps for Revit 2019 compatibil…
Updated source code for RevitLookup available at:https://github.com/jeremytammik/RevitLookup/releases/tag/2017.0.0.19 Notes from The Building Coder:In the last few weeks, it was significantly restruct…
Try it out Info on exporting from Revit to this viewer, from The Building Coder:The va3c project landing page displays the main projects addressed: viewer – HTML viewer GHva3c – Grasshopper va3c expor…
Jeremy Tammik has kindly upgraded and released BipChecker for Revit 2015, you can download it at:https://github.com/jeremytammik/BipChecker Steps to get it going: Download ZIP Extract Open SLN in Visu…
Jeremy Tammik has done all the heavy lifting on this one, but here is how you can get up and running with it quickly: Download this (or you can also go here https://github.com/jeremytammik/AddMaterial…
There are quite a few interesting ways to animate a Revit model these days. You can use Image-O-Matic, things like Level Displacer, and there is also an interesting SDK sample for animating structural…
There are a few interesting things there already, including: The Building Coder samples Export to CNC addin Place Family instances based on Text file updates to RevitLookup To get Revitlookup 2014.0.0…
Just installed CloudWorx (more on this later) and it had a GUID conflict with CADtoEarth – weird? Wonder if the installer somehow couldn’t properly generate a unique identifier (see image). In any cas…
Jeremy shows how you can review a DWG file to determine if the source entities were Text or Labels in Revit. This principle extends further, as he describes: The differing TypedValue 11 is consistentl…
Two great tips via The Building Coder today. Firstly, the updated Revit SDK is available for download from here. Here are some links: Revit 2014 SDK (Update April 24, 2013) (exe – 217899Kb) Revit 2013…