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AdnRme Migrated to Revit MEP 2015 on GitHub

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by

Jeremy Tammik
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John asked a very relevant

question in
a comment on the

Revit 2015 Update Release 3 that
prompted me to complete the rather overdue migration of the ADN Revit MEP sample add-in AdnRme to Revit MEP 2015.

I also took this opportunity to create a GitHub repository for it:

Much easier to share and collaborate on.

The enhanced

documentation now
explains all the basics and points to more detailed discussions on everything else there is to know about it:

AdnRme

Revit MEP Sample Application for Revit MEP HVAC and electrical – Demonstrate use of the Revit API for MEP specific tasks.

HVAC

Use of the generic Revit API for HVAC specific tasks, using only standard Revit element properties and parameters:

  • Determine air terminals for each space.
  • Assign flow to the air terminals depending on the space’s calculated supply air flow.
  • Change size of diffuser based on flow.
  • Populate the value of the ‘CFM per SF’ variable on all spaces.
  • Determine unhosted elements.
  • Reset demo.

Electrical

Use of the MEP specific API to traverse an electrical system and display its hierarchy in a tree view.

Documentation

Comments

13 responses to “AdnRme Migrated to Revit MEP 2015 on GitHub”

  1. Sead Avatar
    Sead

    Hi Jeremy,
    I have downloaded and installed the Revit 2015 add-in wizard through which I aim to build a command found in your AdnRme Revit MEP 2015. (Right-clicking on the project and adding an existing item) The command is ‘CmdAssignFlowToTerminals’. My problem is I get around 25 build errors once I bring the command in.
    The errors include,
    1) The name ‘Util’ does not exist in the current context
    2) The name ‘Const’ does not exist in the current context
    3) The type or namespace name ‘WaitCursor’ could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
    4) The type or namespace name ‘ProgressForm’ could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
    I understand there are certain procedures one must do when migrating the AdnRme code, but I am not really sure what those are. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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  2. Jeremy Tammik Avatar
    Jeremy Tammik

    Dear Sead,
    It is nice to hear that you are using the add-in wizard and that it is successfully completing the task that you ask it to perform.
    Unfortunately, however, your query reveals a complete misunderstanding.
    The add-in wizard generates a completely new project from scratch.
    The AdnRme sample discussed above is an entire finished project.
    You can download it from GitHub and compile it right away.
    In this case, you have no need whatsoever of the wizard.
    There is no need to generate any new commands, they have all been defined already.
    The Util and WaitCursor classes are all already defined and included in the existing AdnRme project.
    Just clone it from GitHub and compile right away, in one single click.
    Cheers, Jeremy.

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  3. Sead Avatar
    Sead

    Hi Jeremy,
    Thank you for your prompt response. After I clone the AdnRme to desktop, you say all I have to do is compile the project in one click.
    In my visual studio when I go to debug the and build the project it says that the target assembly is missing…when I point the output file to the location of the exe/dll it then says that the access to the file is denied. Any suggestions?

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  4. Jeremy Tammik Avatar
    Jeremy Tammik

    Dear Sead,
    No, no idea how that might happen. I would suggest working on drive C: only and running Visual Studio in Administrator mode. I have never heard of or encountered any such problems.
    Cheers, Jeremy.

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  5. Sead Avatar
    Sead

    Its searching for a Revit Architecture 2011, Revit.exe.

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  6. Sead Avatar
    Sead

    ok I will try that

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  7. Sead Avatar
    Sead

    Hi Jeremy,
    Apologies for my rather frustrating posts..
    Ok so I’ve managed to solve that problem by changing the debug setting to release and then back to debug. Not sure why that happened. Now moving on, as I debug, I get 1 error message:
    “The name ‘n2’ does not exist in the current context”
    Any ideas.
    The line of code for that error is as follow…
    Debug.Assert( n2 == n4, “expected to reproduce same result” );

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  8. Sead Avatar
    Sead

    Ok so to my surprise, the actual add in works now, and shows up on my ribbon. Not sure what the above error message could be referring to then.

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  9. Sead Avatar
    Sead

    Hello again Jeremy,
    Was just wondering have you considered releasing a Metric version of the AdnRme addin for Revit? or at least for the HVAC portion of it.
    Converting project units in Revit doesn’t really do the job for this, as the code is aimed at imperial conversion factors and rounding.
    Regards,

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  10. Jeremy Tammik Avatar
    Jeremy Tammik

    Dear Sead,
    No, absolutely not.
    Please understand that this is a learning example.
    Converting it to metric is a trivial exercise.
    Please feel free to do so and share the result, if you think it might be useful for others as well.
    Thank you!
    Cheers, Jeremy.

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  11. Sead Avatar
    Sead

    Hi Jeremy,
    I understand and I do plan on sharing the converted add in as it perhaps might be of more value to users from different regions. I do appreciate all your support so far and keep up the outstanding work.
    Cheers, Sead

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  12. BT Avatar
    BT

    Hi Jeremy,
    Could you show me how to use this add-in such as where should I put AdnRme folder? I’m a new guy so I don’t know where to begin.
    Thank you,
    BT

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  13. Jeremy Tammik Avatar
    Jeremy Tammik

    Dear Bt,
    Before you do anything else whatsoever, and before I answer a single further question of yours, please work through the getting Revit API started material:
    http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#2
    That will answer all those questions.
    Have fun!
    Cheers, Jeremy.

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