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Rhino.Inside Revit – Facade Paneling and Clustering in Revit
Before Rhino.Inside Revit came to existence, I worked on a project to panel a 5.000m2 surface that would be the facade of a stadium. The…
Rhino.Inside Revit – Easy way to Change Family Type Parameters
A few weeks ago, working on a project which has been on the baking for 3 and half years, and was passed on uncountable hands,…
Get All Loadable Family Categories in Revit
During the process of developing a custom family browser for the BIMicon Toolbar, the following question surfaced; how can we classify which family categories can…
Exciting Updates Coming to BIMicon
It has been a busy month preparing all the new features we are going to launch at BIMicon. But here are some of the few…
5 great advantages of a Computational BIM Manager
BIM is a disruptive innovation, as it was AutoCAD when released. But here comes a dramatic difference the scope of work that BIM wants to…
Active view on sheet/s
A few posts ago, we changed our project to be able to create WPF windows inside it, Class Library to WPF, and today we are…
Revit Tip and Tricks 1: Viewport Titles
Today, we proudly introduce to our readers a new section in our blog: a demanded segment about day to day Revit tips and tricks. This…
Our awesome Revit plugin v1.0 is released!
Let’s start the day with a big announcement, we have released v1.0 of our Revit plugin! There is still so much we want to add…
Number windows in Revit in a practical way
As a starting point for our Revit plugin, we converted a macro to number doors into part of our ribbon: A comprehensive guide to creating a…
A simple Revit macro to extract all warnings and classified warnings file
One common problem in Revit models is to prioritize the resolution of the warnings are shown under Manage > Inquiry > Review Warnings. These error…
Effortless method to duplicate sheets in Revit with views and annotations
A common problem in Revit when drafting is the necessity to duplicate a sheet with views. This is done to recreate the sheet with some…
A comprehensive guide to creating a customized Revit tab in C#
In our previous post, Create your own Revit tab in the ribbon, we made our first Revit tab using pyRevit. This is a great approach…
Number doors after rooms in Revit using a convenient macro
There is no denial that Revit has increased productivity and reduced costs in medium and big projects compared to CAD. It has helped the construction…
Step-by-step development diary
Just a heads up, and as may you know, at BIMicon we are developing some interesting Revit tools that can save you heaps of time…
Easy batch print in Revit!
I must confess that I was asking myself how hard it is to batch print sheets that have a specific parameter when I was pressing…
The unseen role of BIM Managers
Today, after practicing social distancing and isolation for 8 weeks, I would like to share some thoughts about BIM managers. It may be that I…
An impressive way to inspect Revit API: Revit Lookup
Checking the Revit API documentation, for those advanced Revit users that are looking into developing their own tools, is a cumbersome task. Looking for what…
Create your first Revit macro in C# – Part 1
Revit macros are helpful tools that allow you to deal with repetitive tasks by automating them. So why don’t we use Dynamo or pyRevit for…
How to create a Schedule Revision History step-by-step
From time to time, it is necessary to check for all the revisions that a sheet has gone through. For example, when issuing drawing sets,…