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Revit macro display warnings
Categories BIM, C#, Revit API

Revit Macro to display warnings when Opening Project

Welcome back! I am feeling very grateful today, got a lot of pending tasks done and a few projects coming! Also, I have plenty of…

January 18, 2022January 19, 2022
Rhino.Inside Facade Paneling
Categories Rhino.Inside, BIM, Grasshopper, Revit, Rhino

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…

October 18, 2021October 19, 2021
Rhino.Inside Dimensions
Categories Revit API, BIM, Grasshopper, Revit, Rhino, Rhino.Inside

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,…

October 11, 2021October 18, 2021
Loadable Family Categories Dynamo
Categories BIM, Dynamo, Python, Revit API

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…

July 5, 2021July 5, 2021
ISO Naming Convention
Categories BIM

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…

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021
Computational BIM Manager Chart
Categories BIM, Revit

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…

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021
Active view on Sheet Toolbar
Categories Revit API, BIM, BIMicon Toolbar, C#, Revit

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…

December 14, 2020December 13, 2020
viewport title
Categories Revit, BIM

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…

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020
Revit plugin v1
Categories BIM, BIMicon Toolbar, C#, Revit API

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…

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020
BIMicon Toolbar number windows
Categories BIM, C#, Revit, Revit API

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…

September 28, 2020September 29, 2020
Extract all warnings
Categories Revit API, BIM, C#, Revit

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…

September 7, 2020September 7, 2020
Duplicate Sheets in Revit
Categories Revit API, BIM, C#, Revit

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…

August 10, 2020August 12, 2020
Revit Tab
Categories Revit API, BIM, C#

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…

July 27, 2020September 16, 2021
Categories BIM, C#, Revit API

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…

June 22, 2020January 17, 2022
BIMicon Toolbar Development
Categories BIM, Revit API

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…

June 8, 2020June 15, 2020
Batch Print
Categories BIM, pyRevit, Python, Revit API

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…

May 25, 2020May 26, 2020
BIM Manager Role
Categories BIM

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…

May 11, 2020May 10, 2020
Revit API and Lookup
Categories BIM, Revit, Revit API

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…

May 4, 2020May 16, 2020
Revit Macro Pick Line
Categories BIM, C#, Revit

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…

April 27, 2020January 17, 2022
Sheet Revision History
Categories BIM, Dynamo, Revit

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,…

April 20, 2020May 16, 2020

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