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AU 2008

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Jeremy Tammik
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I am very much looking forward Autodesk University 2008 in December in Las Vegas, where I will be presenting classes on some Revit API topics:

I will also be part of the panel for

The full class schedule for AU 2008 has been published on Joseph Wurcher’s BLAUG.

My presentations are part of this year’s Developer Track sessions, presented by colleagues from the Autodesk DevTech and various Engineering teams. Kean Walmsley has presented the full list of Developer Track sessions on his blog Through the Interface.

I very much hope I will get a chance to meet some of you in person at AU!

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6 responses to “AU 2008”

  1. Rod Howarth Avatar
    Rod Howarth

    It’s unfortunate that the minimum age is 21, I’m 1 year short of being able to attend. Hopefully next year!
    Will there be any recordings made of presentations?

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  2. Jeremy Avatar
    Jeremy

    Hi Rod,
    I am very sorry to hear that, surprised, and a little bit shocked, even.
    The sessions will not be recorded. Imagine, there are over 500 of them, that would require quite an infrastructure.
    I will be more than happy to make all of my material available to you, in any case.
    Best regards,
    Jeremy

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  3. Danny Polkinhorn Avatar
    Danny Polkinhorn

    Nice. The AEC API talk is scheduled for the same time as the ONE class I’m teaching. Maybe I’ll cancel, and send everyone over to yours. ;-)

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  4. Jeremy Tammik Avatar
    Jeremy Tammik

    Dear Danny,
    Oh dear, I am sorry to hear that. It will be a great chance to meet a few of the internal developers and discuss complex issues in-depth. It is important for them to meet real live external developers occasionally, and hear about their needs face to face. Maybe you can get in touch with some of them before or afterwards … us ADN developer support people will definitely be around and accessible all the time!
    Best regards,
    Jeremy

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  5. graham@integra.uk.net Avatar
    graham@integra.uk.net

    Hi Jeremy, I wonder if you can help me.
    I am just about to start a PhD and a large part of it will relate to BIM. One of the things that I would like to do is to create an oledb driver which will allow the BIM within revit to be interrogated (and updated) using SQL.
    From conversations with colleagues I know that I can use the API to implement this, but I was wondering whether or not something along these lines already existed – I don’t want to reinvent any more wheels than necessary!
    I envisage writing a server application, so Revit will not actually be running against which clients may issue SQL commands, like “select equipment from rooms where roomid = ‘abc’”, or “update equipment set voltage = 240 where equipmentid = ‘abc’”
    Does such a thing, or anything like it, exist already, either within AutoDesk or elsewhere?
    Thanks very much

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  6. Jeremy Tammik Avatar
    Jeremy Tammik

    Dear Graham,
    For one thing, you cannot easily create an application that drives Revit from outside, so you will need to either run your SQL commands within a Revit external command or other valid Revit API call-back context, cf.
    http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2010/04/asynchronous-api-calls-and-idling.html
    You can also make use of the Idling command to circumvent this restriction.
    There is a neat command line interface that might be exactly what you are searching for, but I have not made use of it myself yet, the RevitPythonShell:
    http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/dynamically-load-and-debug-plugins.html
    Please let us know how you get on.
    Cheers, Jeremy.

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