Revit Custom Development: Designing a Continuous Rigid Frame Bridge with Horizontal and Vertical Curves
The previous method works well for straight, continuous rigid frame bridges. However, it falls short when applied to con...
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Revit Plugin Development: How to Add Plugins to Ribbon Panels
Once the plugin is ready, the next step is to load it onto the panel. Revit provides a set of APIs specifically designed...
Revit Secondary Development: Automating Steel Bar Placement in Bridge Design
The steel reinforcement capabilities that come with Revit are quite limited. Even in building structures where Revit gen...
How to Incorporate Prestressed Steel Bars into Bridge Designs Using Revit
Building a bridge in Revit can be a challenging task, and incorporating prestressed steel bars makes it even more comple...
Vector Operations in Revit: A Guide to Secondary Development
From development to completion, working with mathematics is essential. Revit, a 3D modeling software, represents the spa...
Understanding Volume Calculation in Revit Secondary Development Layouts
The layout function of Revit’s volume is one of the most versatile features. Interestingly, the official classic s...
Advanced Revit Techniques: Developing Site Topography
The terrain in Revit is essentially just a surface without any special features. To create this surface, you can use the...
Using Revit's Built-In Steel Bars for Advanced Custom Development
Using Revit's built-in rebar feature as an example (for non-Revit rebar features, please visit my Youku channel) Step-by...
Revit API: Creating Families Directly Within Project Environment
One common frustration in Revit is the need to create a family within the family editor and then import it into a projec...
Revit API Tutorial: How to Split a Family in Secondary Development
In Revit, the concept of dividing families does not exist. For families based on linear shapes, the cross-section remain...
Revit API Tutorial: How to Read a Single Line from a CAD File
Today, a friend asked me how to read a single line from a CAD file using Revit. After searching online, I found no speci...
Advanced Revit Development: Mastering Spatial Curves
How can you create spatial curves in Revit? If you’re familiar with Revit, you’ll know that creating spatial...
Using Dynamo Programming in Revit with Code Blocks
I spent a lot of time experimenting online, searching for how to use code blocks. Most of what I found were just help do...
Using Python Scripts with Dynamo in Revit: Accessing RevitAPI, RevitAPIUI, and Math Libraries
The Python Script module within Dynamo for Revit offers flexible programming capabilities. While many developers working...
Dynamo Programming in Revit: Python Classes Explained
There is a notable difference in how classes are written in Python compared to C#, which can make switching between the ...
Using RevitAPI with Python in Dynamo: Writing Filters in Revit
Here is an example demonstrating how to filter steel bar categories using Revit APIs. First, several Revit API modules n...
How to Install and Use wxPython in Python
My Python version is 3.6, paired with wxPython version 4.0.Most installation guides online are either inaccurate or reco...
Using Dynamo in Revit: How to Import Any DLL File with Python
Dynamo’s Python Script is a powerful and extensible tool built on IronPython. Since IronPython can easily referenc...
Using WinForm Windows for Dynamo Programming in Revit with Python Scripts
In our previous blog post, we discussed how to import any DLL file into a Python script. Naturally, if the DLL contains ...
Using Dynamo in Revit: How to Reference Python .py Files in Python Script
From the previous two blog posts, we have seen that Python Script integrates well with DLL files and can even incorporat...
