All posts in Revit
size matters…or so I was told
I have recently been looking into obtaining file size for a Revit project. It’s one of these file size tracking dashboards that everyone seems to have handy these days that […]
debugging revit add-ins
Ok, so I always hear people complain, that writing Revit Addins is horrible because it takes forever to debug them. You know, that spiel about having to restart Revit, every […]
wall chamfers of equal length
This came by my desk the other day from one of my colleagues in San Francisco office. He was wondering how to automate or semi-automate creation of wall chamfers of […]
how to maintain revit plug-ins for multiple versions
One thing that we all have a love/hate relationship with is API breaking changes. Yes, we all love shiny new toys, but they usually break our old reliable tools. What […]
printing PDFs from Revit…why is it so hard?
Disclaimer: If you don’t have to, please don’t reinvent the wheel. I am a proponent of just going out and buying the tools you need to do your job, rather […]
direct shape – a few words about the magical geometry object
What is Direct Shape and why is everyone talking about them? Well, its an object class that was added to Revit’s API – I think in 2015 – and if […]
why, what and how of the extensible storage
Why? Some time ago, when I was first getting my hands dirty with Revit API, I used to go to Jeremy Tammik’s website and attempt to re-create his examples. Sometimes, […]
playing with materials in dynamo while drinking heavily
I don’t usually play around with Materials in Revit, and even less so with renderings out of Revit, but recently I was engaged by couple of people with questions about […]
create your own tab and buttons in revit
In the last few posts I have outlined in great detail how to make a simple Revit Add-in using the IExternalCommand implementation. Doing that is a great and really fast […]