Category: TheBuildingCoder

DevCon 2025 Amsterdam was a great success – Main topic: agents using data – Cyrille’s Summary of Day Two – Kean’s event overview – Teammate monster selfies – More hellos and normal selfies…

I am in Amsterdam today, participating in the DevCon 2025 – Shared projects for multi-version add-in – Revit 2026 Developer Guide – Revit API and SDK documentation RAG – Revit-IFC DeepWiki – RevitGeminiRAG – Yet another Revit MCP – A2A and MCP towards implicit programming – AutoGenLib on-the-fly coding – M$ and Google code 30%…

AI is growing more widespread and useful in the AEC, BIM and even Revit API arena – Global AI statistics and charts – AI challenges for complex app coding – What is agentic AI? – MCP gaining traction – MCP server for Fusion – Revit MCP – GPT prompting guide – OpenAI o3, o4-mini and…

Revit API curve intersection, LLMs interaction with AutoCAD and IFC, and more AI-related news – IntersectionResult properties – LLM interaction with AutoCAD and IFC – AI literature and roadmap – Vibe coding parody – Collapse of critical thinking – IDA iterated distillation and amplification training – A2A agent-to-agent protocol – OpenAI GPT 4.1 + mini…

In immediately reaction to the release of Revit 2026, DA4R and RevitLookup follow suite – The Lookup Foundation – RevitLookup 2026 – Dashboard, Summary, Settings pages – Unit and Modules dialogues – LookupEngine – Design Automation API for Revit 2026 – Vibe programming Revit macros – Direwolf fast Revit data extraction – From floppies to…

New major release of Revit and a bunch of API solutions for the existing ones – What’s new in Revit 2026 – Empty appearance asset element – Retrieving demolished room data – RST results package creation – RST ResultsBuilder SDK sample…

AI-related news keeps piling in fast – Revit Vibe: generative AI in the BIM – Revit MCP connector – Convert Revit API help file to RAG for LLM – AI effect on programming jobs – Nice Jupyter interactive graph – Art is theft…

RvtDocs online Revit API docs, run free local open-source LLM queries on your BIM, and orchestrate add-in tasks in parallel on multiple servers – Revit parallel task orchestration on the server – Task queue controller – RevitRunner class overview – Creating the manifest – Updating the journal – Implementing the command – Setting up the…

My last Autodesk conference nears, new and updated API documentation online, and a tutorial-style exploration of fabrication parts – DevCon in Amsterdam – CivApiDocs Civil3D API documentation – ApiDocs Revit 2025 API docs – Fabrication part show service…

A lot of my attention is on family matters; a couple of Revit API solutions also caught my attention – Preface to the Orchid Pavilion poems – Access UIApplication anywhere – Determine element bounding box on sheet – AI and human coding – XOR – Three horizons…