VBA Quick Tip
I am writing a quick select case this am and remembered something I thought I’d share with you. Don’t worry about closing quotes around strings when it is the last character on the line. The VBA editor...
View ArticleSome Unity3D goodness – Scripts for Adding Lights
Learning to write scripts for assistance in editing/adding geometry within Unity3D is a must for anyone bringing in models from Revit or 3DSMax for Architectural Walkthroughs. One particular pain...
View ArticleDynamo Barrel Vault Brace 05
We’ve built all the necessary components, an adaptive component profile family, an adaptive component brace family with four adaptive placement points, and an adaptive family containing the profile...
View ArticleDynamo Barrel Vault Brace 07
We are going to finish up this topic with this post on setting parameters. If you are just arriving at this blog for the first time, I’ve been doing a series of posts on Autodesk Dynamo. You can...
View ArticleUsing DOS and VBScript to Upgrade your Revit Library for Free
Spring is here and its time to get ready for the next Autodesk product upgrades. If you are a Revit user like me, you probably don’t look forward to upgrading the library with each release. In...
View ArticleUpgrading Application Macros for New Versions of Revit
This time of year requires a large number of upgrades. I recently wrote about upgrading the Revit library and templates, but there are many file types in the design ecosphere. Today we focus on...
View ArticleDYNAMO FOR ELEMENT BY LEVEL SELECTION
I received a request to assist an architect in fixing their model yesterday. They were attempting to adjust a level elevation, but found other objects were also moving. The request went something...
View ArticleRevit Dynamo Parking Tools
Working on some tools to assist the design teams in managing parking spaces. The attached graph contains two tools. The first tool renumbers parking spaces based on a model based spline drawn through...
View ArticleMacro: Create Isolated 3DView based on Workset
Finally got around to adding the code to modify a great routine published by Harry Mattison back in 2015. I’ve been using the routine to generate the isolated 3D views, but from the first time I ran...
View ArticleDynamo Based Project Review
As I was updating existing templates and building some new ones, I wanted a better way to determine what fonts/text styles are in use and where they are being used. Exploring some existing dynamo...
View ArticleCondensed Version of Project Standards Graph
In my last post, I mentioned a simpler graph to complete the same workflow. This workflow starts with the category and achieves the same result, in a lot fewer nodes. Grab a copy here:...
View ArticleDIMENSION STANDARDS TOOLS
I’m bringing some more standards tools to you today. A quick copy and adjust of the original text tools graph resulted in three tools for dimension styles. The first allows the user to select a...
View ArticleVote for AU 2017 Class Proposals – Vote Now!
Looking for ways to automate your installations and customization within Revit or AutoCAD products? Wish you could control the project launch process? Need to maintain Revit project versions without...
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