Category: TheBuildingCoder

Revit 2025 API migration of VB.NET add-ins to .NET Core 8 and advances in LLMs and AI, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, 3D genAI, web scraping, spatial referring, digital twins…

The Revit 2025 API contains significant enhancements for add-in developers – Information sources – What’s new in previous versions – Detailed table of contents – API Changes – API Additions…

The Revit 2025 API is based on .NET Core 8, upgrading from the previous .NET 4.8 framework – .NET Core migration webinar recording – Revit API .NET Core migration guide…

RevitLookup HotFix 2025.0.1 has been released, and I continue the exploration of the Revit 2025 API – Revit 2025 SDK download – Comparison with previous SDK – Integration into RevitSdkSamples – Compiling the Revit 2025 SDK samples – Custom add-in context menu…

I migrated The Building Coder samples to Revit 2025 – Compilation environment – .NET upgrade assistant – Revit API assemblies – Errors and warnings – Conclusion…

Revit 2025 has been released and the new Revit API is now based on .NET Core – PackageReference versioning support – RevitLookup 2025 – Revit developer starter kit – Revit 2025 macros with Visual Studio 2022 – Cheap Chinese AI chip…

Picking up two illuminating conversations from the Revit API discussion forum, we look at spying to suppress the PreviewControl border and changing the level of piping elements…

New exciting Revit API solutions and furious pace of LLM development – Bowerbird C# scripting for Revit – Doors traversed by path of travel – Camera mapping between APS and Revit – Claude 3 can see – Devin, an AI software engineer – Meta Imagine generates images – An LLM for decompiling binary code –…

We present a long-awaited solution to check for a valid Revit API context and a whole bunch of short pointers to other mostly AI-related topics of interest – Determining Revit API context – Detect Revit user input state – Easy Revit API – Gemini with image and video input – LLM is not self-aware –…

Interactivity and AI keeps growing – BIM interactive notebooks – TemporaryGraphicsManager in action – Classify line styles built-in vs user – The curious case of JavaScript – Magika AI-based file type classification – NotebookLM – AI understands videos better – Airline chatbot invented a refund policy – LLM tokenisation – Diátaxis systematic technical documentation –…