Category: TheBuildingCoder

Vacation time, accelerator time, and chunking TBC for LLM RAG – APS accelerator Barcelona in September – Q4R4 with LLM and RAG – Claude.ai helped chunk TBC blog posts – Vacation…

Material assets, built-in browser functionality, create schedules, search text and miscellaneous LLM-related news items – Personalised material asset properties – CefSharp versus WebView2 embedded browser – Twentytwo on schedule creation – Ugrep enhanced grep – AI mesh understanding – LLM self-reflection, deep stupidity, sans MatMul, and locally the easy way…

New RevitLookup solves Revit add-in DLL hell, and a clarification on the arc length properties provided by curve elements – Curve Length versus ApproximateLength – RevitLookup dependency isolation ends DLL hell – Add-in dependencies isolation…

Two illuminating posts from the Revit API discussion forum on licensing and the entitlement API – Multi-version Revit entitlement API – Add-in licensing…

New RevitLookup BIM element geometry visualization, and 1000 GitHub stars – Versions 2025.0.5, 2025.0.6 and 2025.0.7 – Wiki…

A call for feedback on a planned change downloading a RCM from Docs, a tricky solution to remove ribbon panels and buttons, and a bunch of news bites that I found interesting on sustainability, language and AI discoveries; new EU AEC energy ruling, ecological wooden buildings in Scandinavia, spoken human language speed and information density,…

The video recording on what’s new in the Revit 2025 API has been released, and we discuss a nice example combining element pre-selection and PostCommand – Revit 2025 API video – Hiding linked elements…

The Revit 2025.1 update release, placing a detail group in ASP Design Automation, lacking the UI, a hacker’s guide to LLM and an LLM retrieval augmented generation in 10 lines of code…

New releases of RevitLookup vastly expand coverage to include numerous new classes and properties – BIMrras podcast interview – RevitLookup 2025.0.3 – RevitLookup 2025.0.4 – Outline versus BoundingBox – Linking Revit files in BIM360 Docs…

Modifying duct length, highlighting linked elements using SetReferences and determining whether a form is currently displayed by implementing an IsMainWindowActive predicate…