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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
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
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 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
Floor Finish From Rooms Dynamo
Categories BIM, Dynamo, Revit

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…

April 13, 2020June 21, 2021
Python Blue Logo
Categories BIM, Python, Revit

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…

April 6, 2020April 27, 2020
Python Blue Logo
Categories BIM, Python, Revit

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…

March 30, 2020April 23, 2020
Python Blue Logo
Categories Python, BIM, Revit

Kickstart Python for Revit API (1)

Learn about valuable and basic programming concepts in Python like expressions, values and operators that will help you develop better plugins with Revit’s API.

March 23, 2020April 2, 2020
Import View Templates Revit
Categories BIM, pyRevit, Python, Revit

Transfer unique view templates in Revit

Transferring particular view templates from one Revit project to another can be troublesome from time to time. Put for example, when you tunned the last…

March 16, 2020April 2, 2020
Auto dimension grids image
Categories BIM, pyRevit, Python, Revit

Create your own Revit tab in the ribbon

pyRevit allows us to create a customized toolbar, and in this post, we will see how this can be achieved. And best of all, no code compilation involved, chunks of code can be tested right away.

March 9, 2020July 4, 2022
Auto dimension grids gif
Categories BIM, Python, Revit, Revit Python Shell

Auto dimension Grids in an exciting way

Placing grids dimensions in every view can be a tedious task but we can automate it! So here goes this Python script:

March 2, 2020May 8, 2020
RPS change drawn by image
Categories BIM, Python, Revit, Revit Python Shell

Fill in ‘Drawn By’ on sheets with Revit Python Shell

More often than not, drafters or modelers forget to fill in Drawn By or Checked By on the sheets due to lack of time and fast approaching deadlines.

February 24, 2020July 30, 2020
Revit Python Shell Image
Categories BIM, Python, Revit, Revit Python Shell

Introducing Revit Python Shell

Revit Python Shell, RPS, is a useful, a really useful tool to test Python scripts live. You can run what you type in the console to see the results and debug in a terminal as if it is in a Python console.

February 17, 2020March 29, 2020

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