Revit API: How to Verify Families Before Loading Them
Some time ago, I proposed that to maintain consistency in project data, loading families from unknown sources should be ...
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Revit API: How to Display the Nearest Grid Intersection Points
When working on a project, communicating through grid positioning is often necessary. The common approach is to select t...
Revit API: Converting Pipe Fittings for Accurate Pipeline Length Calculation
In Revit, the pipeline length calculated represents the actual length of the pipe itself. In contrast, traditional calcu...
Getting Started with Revit API: Building a Simple Add-In
Creating a Simple Revit External Command Program (Revit 2017 + VS 2015) Open Visual Studio (VS2015 in this example). Cli...
Revit Customization: How to Export Screenshots and Images
The Revit API provides a method called Document.ExportImage() that allows you to export one or multiple views as image f...
Revit API: How to Retrieve Filter Colors in View Visibility Settings
In Revit’s View > Visibility/Graphics settings, you can change the color of a specific component type by applying ...
Revit Plugin Development: Automated Grid Alignment Made Easy
During project development, meshes are often flipped or selected incorrectly, resulting in unattractive meshes. To addre...
Advanced Revit Customization: Automating Grid Dimension Annotations
When working with Revit for drawing, annotating the grid is an essential task. Below are some insights and development t...
Revit API Development: Creating Custom Forms
In Revit, users often need to input specific data before executing a program. To implement forms in Revit, you can use t...
Revit Secondary Development: Creating Thumbnails for Inconsistent Regional Elevations
When working with Revit to create drawings, it is common to encounter inconsistencies in the elevation levels of a proje...
Revit Secondary Development: Testing Model Lightweight Conversion from RVT to JSON
Recently, the author has been exploring methods to display lightweight Revit models on web pages. After extensive resear...
Revit Customization: How to Export DWG Files Efficiently
The author recently explored exporting files in different formats using the Revit API and started by testing the export ...
Revit API Tutorial: Managing Hidden Elements in Elevation Views
Recently, I have been working on the sectional drawings for a project. Anyone who has experience with such projects know...
Revit API Development: Managing Database Operations Using MySQL
Recently, I have been researching how to quickly convert CAD data into Revit data. CAD drawings often contain a wealth o...
Revit Plugin Development: 3D Measurement with Ray Casting Technique
Navisworks and Tabletop’s cloud browsers both offer user-friendly 3D measurement tools. However, measuring the dis...
Revit Secondary Development: Mapping BuiltInCategories to Corresponding Categories
During development, it is essential to use the BuiltInCategory values for all model and annotation categories. To facili...
Advanced Revit Customization Using WPF Integration
If you want to capture user input in Revit, besides using WinForms, you can also utilize WPF. Below is a simple example ...
Revit Secondary Development: Controlling Family Usage by Modifying Family Extensions
When using the SaveAs function to save a family document with a different file extension, I found that the resulting fil...
Revit API: How to Export Data to Excel
Occasionally, it becomes necessary to extract information from Revit models into Excel for further processing or record-...
How to Highlight Rows and Columns in Excel Using VBA
WPS offers a useful feature called crosshairs, which highlights the rows and columns of selected cells. This is particul...
