BIM Skills: How to Build a Revit Secondary Development Platform and Its Main Components

This article is from the WeChat official account: wood button Revit secondary development learning sharing. The platform setup is mainly divided into three parts:

1. Visual Studio installation: Used primarily for writing code.
2. Add Manager configuration: Used to import compiled DLL files into Revit for execution.
3. RevitLookup.addin configuration: Used to view component information such as width, height, type, and more.

Make sure you have downloaded the Revit SDK 2019 toolkit in advance.

1. Visual Studio 2019

Download and install Visual Studio 2019.

2. Add Manager Configuration

The previously downloaded Revit SDK 2019 toolkit contains the necessary files.

1. Open the Autodesk.DataManager.addin file and update the path to where your DataManager.dll file is located.



2. Modify the <assembly> tag content to point to the path of your DataManager.dll file.



3. Finally, copy Autodesk.ExtendedManager.addin to the designated path as shown below:

With these steps, the Add Manager configuration is complete.

3. Revit Lookup Configuration

After downloading, open the files as shown in the image below:

1. Open RevitLookup.sln, re-reference the necessary files as needed, then build to generate RevitLookup.exe. Copy the output path.



2. Edit RevitLookup.addin and update the 4th line inside the <assembly> tag with the path where the compiled RevitLookup.dll is located:



3. Finally, copy RevitLookup.addin to the appropriate directory.

With this, the Revit Lookup configuration is complete.

At this point, the platform setup is finished, and you are ready to start coding!

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