Get Family Document From Family Instance Revit Api

We shut this twelvemonth with an eclectic mix of topics – Symbol vs instance geometry clarification – Create new material with texture – RVT dashboard data access – Marking and retrieving a custom chemical element – Advanced remote batch control processing – Midwinter break... Read more →

Sooner or later, every serious Revit add-in developer will exist scratching her head a bit over symbol versus instance geometry. Here is a nice juicy claiming... Wrap yous head effectually this one in depth and hereafter challenges in this area will seem lilliputian. Retrieving references from symbol versus instance geometry when placing an case on a line throws an ArgumentsInconsistentException... Read more than →

Unfortunately, the new unit blazon name functionality can cause a problem loading a family with a blazon catalogue – Unit blazon update affects family unit blazon catalogue loading – New FreeCodeCamp courses – Padlocking The Edifice Coder... Read more →

I promise yous are doing well and remaining healthy! Topics for today – Transforming symbol geometry to instance placement – Importing and displaying satellite images – Costless fourth dimension? Learn! Costless code campsite... Read more →

Nosotros recently shared a brief note on using the BreakCurve API for splitting a pipe. Matt Taylor at present pointed out a much more comprehensive discussion asking, is there any API bachelor to split a duct programmatically? That is not simply an example, but an entire tutorial, then I recollect it is very useful to share here too for all to enjoy.. Read more than →

Here is a final-minute announcement that I will be attending the Swissbau Basel on Wednesday, a quick hint to answer a support example that just came in today, a forum thread effect, and a pointer to a drum solo – Attending Swissbau Basel on Wednesday – Comparison families using function atoms – Maximum area rectangle in polygon – Neil Peart drum solo... Read more →

Family symbols, aka family types, should ordinarily be relied on to exist constant. However, since families and types tin really be edited at will, they are sometimes non. Hence, the need to cheque and compare may arise... Read more →

Pieter Schipper worked hard at solving the task of swapping nested families using Python and Dynamo and very kindly shares his solution here with us today, including his four Python scripts – Chore at hand – Issues faced – Solution and detailed implementation – Collect all family unit instances in document – Consign families via SaveAs – Update Nested Family unit Definitions – Reload updated families... Read more →

And so many interesting discussions and inspiring solutions in the Revit API discussion forum! Here are a few, plus one non-forum beginner case – GetSimilarTypes filters for curtain wall door symbols – SnappingService – what does it actually exercise? – Go title cake label parameters... Read more →

I completed the motility to my new computer, and happily all systems get at present. Here are some other topics that came up in the past few days – Revit-IFC Release 20.1.0 – Community discussion on Revit – Solid or case, depending – Exporting parameters to Admission – Store globals on custom DataStorage, not ProjectInfo – Iranian civil engineering project video... Read more →

I played around creating a new SectionCutGeo add together-in to retrieve the geometry resulting from cutting a family case in a section view. This was prompted the Revit API discussion forum thread on getting intersection lines from cut in department view – Intersection of section and family unit example chore – Solution options, geometry elements and view settings – Retrieving curves in the cut airplane – Helper methods and external control mainline – Sample model and results – Caveat... Read more →

The open source space around the Revit API is continuously growing richer, solutions are shared and exciting discoveries are made, both in the Revit API discussion forum and elsewhere – Debugging, code signing and HOK Mission Control – Creating connectors on a reference line... Read more →

I am probably doomed to spend the residue of my life telling people not to unnecessarily apply ToList to a filtered chemical element collector. It happened several times again today answering questions in the Revit API word forum – Don't trust the family instance location point – Searching by name for element type and text note blazon – Searching using a negated category filter... Read more than →

A demonstration of using the NewSweep method was very kindly provided in yet another helpful answer past Frank @Fair59 Aarssen to the Revit API discussion forum thread on how to create a sweep with multiple closed loops in contour. Permit me also highlight an interesting TED talk on the topic of poverty versus universal basic income – Creating a sweep with multiple closed loops – Poverty versus universal basic income... Read more →

Inundated with interesting topics, let'southward skim a few topmost ones off – Passing an add-in custom control line parameters – Useful methods aid verify a Confront is rectangular – Automate complex family cosmos – C++ code extracts 3D line segments from point cloud – Big data visualisation and storytelling... Read more →

Håvard Leding of Symetri added 3 new commands to RevitLookup – Iii new RevitLookup commands – About "Snoop Pick Face" – Virtually "Option Linked Element" – Running in a family document... Read more →

Today we discuss a couple of Dynamo considerations, Revit family and chemical element key concepts, and an exception handler required for a custom exporter – Revit API versus Dynamo for Revit – Dynamo 2.0.Ten versus i.iii.3 – Difference between FamilySymbol and ElementType – Custom exporter Execute may throw – Turned on Git LFS... Read more →

One of the most exciting Revit related topics at Autodesk Academy is the expansion of the Forge Blueprint Automation API to include support for Revit families and models in RFA and RVT files, aka Design Automation for Revit or DA4R – Blueprint Automation for Revit Public Beta – FDC226894 – DA4R at DevCon at AU Las Vegas – AS226079 – Manage Revit Digital Content using DA4R – What is Forge Blueprint Automation for Revit (Revit.io)? – Revit.io Model – Terminology – Why Revit.io? – Cloud based content management with automatic client requirements and standardization – Generating native project templates through Revit I/O on the cloud – Creating Templates – Acquire how to link to Forge for Existent-Time query and visualization – Learn how to manipulate and manage content in the deject... Read more than →

The Forge accelerator in Rome is winding downward with the demonstrations of what was achieved beingness recorded as I write. An interesting conversation I had at the celebratory dinner last dark gave me an thought for a solution to a longstanding question on family tampering protection – Roma accelerator grouping photo – Protecting a family unit from tampering – Implementing a canonical cardinal for geometrical objects... Read more →

Today I highlight two of Fair59's numerous solutions in the Revit API forum, and too mention a joke I picked upwards in a Swedish drawing – Fadaesen on racism versus realism – Retrieving a reference aeroplane location in a family unit example – Accessing the Revit ribbon icons... Read more than →

We already looked at deleting unnamed non-hosting reference planes back in 2012 and 2014. Some things have changed since then, and the old code requires fixing and updating. Other interesting topics also desire to be mentioned – Embodyment workshop – Bös Fulen mountain hike – Using ReferenceIntersector to place lighting fixture on ceiling face – Reformat stable representation string for dimensioning – Deleting unnamed non-hosting reference planes updated... Read more →

José Alberto Torres Jaraute implemented an add-in tool to protect the intellectual property built into a complex hierarchy of nested family instances by replacing them with a flatter and simpler hierarchy, withal retaining all the relevant not-confidential custom information. Basically, his tool likewise enables location of overlapping elements and duplicates elimination. In the course of this work, Alberto raised a number of questions in the Revit API word forum – Explode nested families – Insert a curve-based family instance associated to a face – Explode family unit instance to get all the components of a family in projection – Change the host and work plane of a family... Read more than →

An interesting question was raised on renaming a family after it has been loaded into a project, which throws some light on the underlying relationship between the family name and the RFA filename. Before that, we revisit the eternal topic of getting started with the Revit API, and what to do to prepare for it before really touching Revit at all. After, and similarly, we pick upward a proficient suggestion or two on planning and preparing your extensible storage schema for future version handling – Before getting started – Renaming a family in a projection – Extensible storage – versioning best practices... Read more →

A word with Håvard Dagsvik on the apply of TransmissionData, standalone access to the BasicFileInfo without the need for a valid Revit API context, and a Revit-independent method replacing Family ExtractPartAtom – No document required for TransmissionData access – TransmissionData requires a valid Revit API context – Standalone GetFamilyXmlData method replacing ExtractPartAtom – Windows explorer BasicFileInfo right click utility... Read more →

Several questions on filtering for intersecting elements came up recently. It is pretty piece of cake as long every bit a bounding box can be used. Nevertheless, the bounding box is generally aligned with the cardinal X, Y and Z axes. If the containing volume of interest is not, too many elements may be selected – Family instances in a diagonal room – Conduits intersecting a junction box – Generate 2d arc from radius, kickoff and end points... Read more →

Questions on how to use NewFamilySymbolProfile take come up up a couple of times in the Revit API discussion forum. The curt respond is: remember the family symbol from the contour family, and then call the creation application NewFamilySymbolProfile method. I implemented a new sample add-in for you to demonstrate the steps using the Profiles_L-Angles.rfa profile family... Read more →

Quick notes on the best speakers at the last issue in Las Vegas, and your chance to get 1 of them at the side by side in London – Best AU Speakers in Las Vegas 2017 – CFP for Autodesk University London 2018... Read more →

I'll begin the new year by discussing a bunch of topics addressing diverse aspects of DirectShape elements – Updated DirectShapeFromFace – Meliorate loft form creation speed using DirectShape – Create DirectShape instead of conceptual mass – Create surface from face – Create DirectShape from solid – Control DirectShape color and material – Improve family unit performance suppressing DirectShape generation – Create DirectShape from room... Read more than →

Alexander Ignatovich shares an exceedingly elegant solution for automatic wall cosmos, illustrating a number of important concepts and implementing the post-obit functionality very succinctly indeed – Retrieve all the cube family unit instances – Retrieve their acme parameter value – Retrieve their solids making apply of the .Cyberspace yield operator – Extract their horizontal outline contours using an ExtrusionAnalyzer – Create walls along each contour bend segment – Identify a door family instance at the midpoint of each wall... Read more →

Alexander Ignatovich answered several interesting questions in the Revit API give-and-take forum – The ExtentElem and duplicating legend components – Obtaining generic model foursquare face references for dimensioning – Preparing family with reference planes for dimensioning – Creating a line perpendicular to another... Read more →

A whole bunch of exciting Revit API topics to commencement the week – RevitLookup updated to use NuGet Revit API package – Determining the outer-most EdgeLoop – How to make up one's mind the location curve for a steel column – Determining a reference plane from a reference point... Read more →

A biggish post rather late in the week... notwithstanding answering besides many cases – Forge for AEC demos and sample code – Determining the starting view – Detecting installed Revit version – Detecting installed C3D version – Moving items inside a detail group – Filtering for family instances and types by family proper noun... Read more →

Topics for today – BIM 360 and Forge Hackathon and Webinar Series – IsCreatedLocal versus IsLocal – Getting the building elevation – FamilyBoundingBox enhanced taking instances into account... Read more →

Depending on circumstances, interactively picked family example geometry may be returned in the global Revit world coordinate arrangement WCS, or in the family instance definition local coordinate organisation LCS. A family unit case may have its own non-empty solid, or use the symbol geometry. The symbol geometry requires keeping track of the case transform to map it to the actual case project location – Question on Incorrect Face Normal – Working Airplane has no Effect – Non-Picked Face Normals are Right – Solution – Detecting When to Use LCS versus WCS – Retrieval of Picked Geometry Face from Instance is Untransformed... Read more →

Hither is some other vivid and super succinct solution provided by Fair59, answering the Revit API discussion forum thread on how to become cutting void instances in the floor using the HostObject FindInserts method – Question: I have a floor on which a family instance is inserted on the face of the floor (the instance host is too the flooring). I checked in the family the "Cut with Void When Loaded" parameter, so that the void is created in the floor. Now, I desire to retrieve all the instances that create voids in the flooring... Read more →

Here is another Revit 2018 API enhancement that is manifestly worth highlighting, since information technology immediately answers the question on getting a specific reference from a family instance raised in the Revit API give-and-take forum: Is it possible to get a named reference plane from a family without going into the family unit editor API? For example, I would like to have users exist able to name a reference airplane 'my arbitrary location' when they are creating a family unit... Read more than →

In Revit 2018, cancelling family instance placement during a call to PromptForFamilyInstancePlacement throws an OperationCanceledException exception – Hands fixed, in one case discovered – Question – Modify in Behaviour – Exceptions Should be Exceptional – Answer – The Edifice Coder samples CmdPlaceFamilyInstance... Read more →

Blogging despite having already exceeded my work quota for the week, but there is so much to share – ForgeFader user interface – RevitLookup builds – Purging types, families and materials – Retrieving all family instances in a room... Read more →

I completed a first revision of the ForgeFader project, bringing information technology up to par with RvtFader. It is pretty cool seeing the same functionality implemented in two such different ways, on completely unlike platforms, using different tools. Alan Seidel shared another exciting Revit add-in. First and not least, another exciting topic for me personally is switching to half-time work – Work half – AKS Opener – Video – GitHub repository – Why? – Specific interest – RvtFader – ForgeFader... Read more →

Today is the last day of the Forge accelerator, and I am still working on the ForgeFader project. The topics today are mainly related to Revit, though – Google prettifier on GitHub – WTA mechanical family placement add-in – Provision for void – What is a provision for void? – Creating a provision for void... Read more than →

I am traveling to Gothenburg for the Forge accelerator. Meanwhile, Allan Seidel shared his WTA FireP 3D Aimer add-in that creates a custom ribbon tab with subject field related tools for placing specific Revit family unit types with some families requiring parameter settings made on the fly and the 3D Aimer case that "aims" a special Revit family to a target – WTA FireP 3D Aimer Tools – GitHub Repository and YouTube Video – Source Lawmaking Documentation – WTA Elec – Another Family Plunk and Concept Share... Read more →

I briefly mentioned the AEC Hackathon in Munich yesterday. Hither is some more information on that, highlighting the heady speaker line-upwardly and target topics, plus a solution for determining the bounding box of an entire family – AEC Hackathon Munich Topics and Speakers – Family bounding box – Continuous integration for RevitLookup? Read more →

I am away on vacation. In the concurrently, Roman Lavrov shared his Revit Family unit Browser, maxim: I am working on family browser for Revit using Revit API and WPF. Your blog helps me a lot, so I decide to share my work with you. I remember, some ideas volition be useful for other coders. If you have time, please take a expect my program on GitHub at github.com/RomanLavrov/RevitFamilyBrowser... Read more →

Permit's pick upwards two more topics from the Revit API give-and-take forum today – Family Category holding is not always ready – 2 unlike energy analysis model types – gbXML export options – BuildingEnvelopeAnalyzer class – EnergyAnalysisDetailModel creation from building elements and volumes – EnergyAnalysisDetailModelOptions... Read more →

Some interesting topics of the solar day for this first cloudy one later a truly wonderful Indian summer – Avoid imported CAD content in RFA family definitions – Advances in Architectural Geometry 2016 – Endtrip total audio replacement... Read more →

I recently shared Scott Wilson's reference stable representation magic voodoo, and y'all may have asked yourself what use information technology is. Well, here is one example making effective employ of information technology, raised and solved by Ola Gunnar Skippervik of Multiconsult – Goal: retrieve family case edge to create directly shape – Snooping the family instance geometry – Partial answer and proffer – Confirmation – Summary – Structural concrete setout point add together-in... Read more than →

Quite a few bug revolving effectually IFC came up lately in various ADN cases and in the Revit API discussion forum. Earlier getting to the technical stuff, some pictures from my latest mountaineering trip to climb Gross Spannort – Autodesk Forge Platform — Niggling machines – IFC import scaling result – IFC open source C# library – Customising IFC import – IFC family support... Read more →

Allow's end the week with a truly magnificent contribution and research consequence provided by Scott Wilson in the Revit API discussion forum. Scott responded to Pat Hague's recent thread on converting local family instance coordinate of a selected edge to projection coordinates, saying, Yeah the Stable Reference Strings tin can be used to get at areas of the Geometry API that aren't fully exposed – I love playing around with them. Sometimes I stumble upon something absurd such as this solution for a situation in which the geometry returns no reference for a family example... Read more →

I answered far too many threads on the Revit API discussion forum in the by few days to list them all, so I'll just option out two cases of special interest today – Levels generated by IFC import – Determining MEP duct and pipage element shape... Read more than →

I am back from the BIM Programming conference and workshops in Madrid and rather flooded, and then here is only a quick note on how to you tin model small details in Revit, courtesy of Jose Ignacio Montes of Avatar BIM. As you are perfectly well aware, Revit volition not allow you to model things smaller than 1/8th of an inch direct in the project surroundings. Jose presents a simple workaround using an imported DWG file... Read more than →

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