Revit API Training Material

The Revit 2012 API training material that we use for our ADN trainings is now available online to the general public from the
Revit Developer Center.
Here is a
direct link to
it, with no guarantee that it will remain valid in future.

It includes three subfolders:

• Labs
• Presentation
• Sample Drawing

These are the Powerpoint presentations used for the training:

• 0_Revit_Programming_Training_Class.pptx – Overview
• 1_Revit_API_Intro.pptx – Basics
• 2_Revit_UI_API.pptx – User Interface and Events
• 3_Revit_Family_API.pptx – Family API

The labs parallel the three main presentations:

• 1_Revit_API_Intro – Basics
• 2_Revit_UI_API – User Interface and Events
• 3_Revit_Family_API – Family API

Each of the three labs are provided in both C# and VB, and each also includes a set of documentation, exercise instructions, source code and Visual Studio solutions in the following subfolders:

• DocsCS
• DocsVB
• SourceCS
• SourceVB

The labs in the basic 1_Revit_API_Intro cover the Revit API fundamentals:

• Revit add-ins: external command and application, attributes, add-in manifest and object model
• Representation of Revit elements
• Element iteration, filtering and queries
• Element modification
• Model creation

These topics are split up into the following exercises:

• Lab1 – “Hello World”
• Lab2 – DB element
• Lab3 – element filtering
• Lab4 – element modification
• Lab5 – model creation
• Lab6 – extensible storage
• Lab7 – shared parameters

The topics covered by 2_Revit_UI_API include:

• Ribbon
• User Selection
• Task Dialogue
• Events
• Dynamic Model Update

Finally, 3_Revit_Family_API follows the same structure as we already presented when discussing the

Revit Family API and the

family creation API labs.