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Match Interior Elevation Names to Rooms

Nice tip + addin coming from Trevor Taylor via Jeremy Tammik – it shows how to rename Interior Elevation views by the Room that they reside in. Download:Here is a complete sample project including a t…

2013-03-22 · Luke Johnson
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Matching a 3D view Section Box to a Scope Box

I had one of those slap-your-head moments when this finally came to me … use Coins Auto Section Box! Step by step: Close Revit Install Coins Auto Section Box Open Revit Open a project Draw a Scope Box…

2012-09-05 · Luke Johnson
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Revit Model Exporters via The Building Coder – OBJ STL IFC

Quote: To follow up the discussion of my quick and dirty Revit model OBJ exporter, I want to point out that Adam Nagy completed his series of posts on the AEC DevBlog on a Revit model exporter and vie…

2012-07-20 · Luke Johnson
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How many shells does Revit want?

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…

2012-07-13 · Luke Johnson
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RevitAddinWizard Build 0.9.2.1 released

Download RevitAddinWizard/RevitAddinCoder/RevitAddinWidget More API wizards at http://spiderinnet.typepad.com/blog/2011/05/revit-addin-wizardscoders-and-revit-api-widgets.html via RevitAddinWizard Bui…

2012-06-18 · Luke Johnson
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Feed your webcam into Revit?

The Building Coder has put together a very advanced post that essentially demonstrates that the Revit API can sample an external, continuously changing graphical ‘feed’, and then display this inside R…

2012-02-10 · Luke Johnson
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Prefer VB? My First Revit Plug-in in VB

Whether you prefer C# or VB.Net for Revit API add-in development is probably a matter of preference. So for those of you who haven’t heard yet: Based on popular demand, we have now added new VB.NET sa…

2011-12-20 · Luke Johnson