Munich API Training

Today is the second day of the Munich Revit API training, with the following participants and a nice mix of interests in formwork and scaffolding, infrastructure, concrete walls and bridges, facade, glass, roof structures, stadiums, parameteric design using Grasshopper and Rhino, generative components, connecting CAD and FEM, bridge engineering in steel and concrete, elevator software and
freelance architect and civil engineering consultancy:

• Anis Naroura
• Thomas Jarzyna
• Kai Timmermann
• Simon Hooper, Bestech Systems Ltd.
• Andre Ihde, PhD TU Munich
• Dirk Cleff, Digipara GmbH

Here we are enjoying some wonderful Munich sunshine during our lunch break:

Since everybody completed their

homework ahead
of time, we finished with the basics during the first day and were able to start exploring some of the more interesting topics of specific interest to this group:

• More Basics
  • No Revit API
    
    object model

  • Counting items and customizing the bill of material
  • Geometry extraction by level including non-level based elements
  • How to discretize circles and arcs
  • Multilanguage
  • Levels
  • Units
  • Performance
  • Groups of objects
  • Connection to Excel, import and export parameters
  • Creation, modification of layouts, sections, plan views
  • Recognising neighboring items and boundaries
• Extensible storage (xdata)
• Family creation
  • Constraining geometry
• Structural
  • Link Revit Structure Bridge Extensions with proprietry bridge design software
  • Extracting geometrical and other information from the Analytical Model
  • Avoiding connection problems between columns, beams, walls and slabs
  • REX, the Revit Extensions

For one of the participatings, the final goal is especially challenging, since the task is to port or rearchitect an existing and mature AutoCAD-based application… this leads to the hard issues that we recently discussed regarding

CAD versus BIM…

In the evening I had a picnic under the

Monopterus in
the

Englischer Garten park.
On the way home we enjoyed

Venus and the new moon in
the quiet city streets due to the Champion’s League semi-final soccer game Bayern Munich – Real Madrid: