Category: Events
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VB.NET and View.SetVisibility
By Augusto Goncalves The 2014 version of the Revit API documentation have 2 methods for SetVisibility, where one is now obsolete. But you can notice that both methods have the same same, except for the ‘S’ in lower and upper case. As C# is case sensitive, the compiler understand which version your code is using,…
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Call for proposals: Autodesk University 2013
As many of you will now be aware, the call for proposals for AU 2013 is now open and will remain so until May 19th. It’s always great to have people presenting fresh ideas at the conference, so think about whether you have something to share with fellow Autodesk customers/partners/developers and submit a proposal or two! I'll…
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Kinect, leapMotion, MoCap, Googles … all legacy tools !!!
On January 2011, Microsoft came out with a revolutionary device named Kinect. While Microsoft made it for their Xbox, many people used the Kinect to give computers eyes, ears, and the capacity to interact naturally with people by simply gesturing and speaking. A lot of developers were really enthusiast to deliver new tools despite the…
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Accessing Material value of a Panel using Revit API
By Saikat Bhattacharya Whenever there is a requirement to access any specific parameter value of an element, like the Material value of a Panel, in this case, Revit LookUp tool often provides the exact approach required to access the desired information. So getting back to this specific case, we can create an instance of the…
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Retrieving Paint Material for Walls using Revit API
By Saikat Bhattacharya A question that has often come up repeatedly is on retrieving wall paint materials: There is a Paint tool in Revit that a material can be 'painted' on a surface of a wall. How can we access the paint material information via the API? With the Revit API, we have the ability…
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Happy New Year!
By Mikako Harada Happy new year from AEC workgroup, Developer Technical Services team. I hope you all had a good rest over the holidays. (Personally, I certainly did. After rather hectic traveling and lots of talking, I lost my voice toward the end of the trip and I needed to put myself in the recovery mode.) Last two…
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A day in Shanghai
Still on the road for the annual ADN M&E devdays and sitting in the back of the room now I delivered the introduction presentation on 'why' the cloud for M&E is now important to our industry. Yesterday, I had the please and great surprise to see the whole ADN China team present in Shanghai who…
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Creating Wall using Profile provided–not aligning to existing Levels
By Saikat Bhattacharya Using some of the overloads of the Wall.Create method, the wall seems to be always placed between two existing levels. It seems the lowermost and the topmost line(s) of the created walls profile always have the same Z-value as the corresponding existing levels, even though the Wall profile contained different values of…
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Maya on .NET
For those of you who are already on the Maya Feedback Community forum (beta forum), it is probably not really new. But for all others, this is quite a big change – Maya will get a native .NET API for its Windows platform version. So I am proud to announce the Maya .NET API here.…
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Between Developer Days
By Mikako Harada ADN Developer Days are not an event just for the U.S. members. We hold the same event across the world in various countries. Two weeks ago, I was in Singapore to present AEC sessions. Again, technical detail to follow at more appropriate time. For now, I just wanted to share a few photos…
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