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…
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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 reducing 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,…
Create floor finishes from rooms (part 1)
Creating floor finishes is a task that can be automated easily and save us a huge amount of time. When room finishes are defined or…
Kickstart Python For Revit API (3)
Promise, this is the last post about Python abstract concepts and basics. Also, this is the most important lesson, it will explain the tools that…
Kickstart Python For Revit API (2)
After a brief introduction to some of Python’s basic elements, this post will introduce some more handy elements to use in Dynamo and it will…