Tag: Revit API

More aspects of the Revit API from a modeless context – Background process and Revit API – Revit background processor – Effective Revit API context predicate – PostCommand context and view focus – Protect creativity with no AI – European Union AI Act – The Sakana AI Scientist – Plasma in high school nuclear fusion…

Topics discussed in the past week – Simultaneous add-in and Revit interaction – Limited PDF printing speed – Family instance code samples – Apple intelligence foundation language models – LLM arena…

Fresh looks at dimensioning voodoo with stable representations, accessing and filtering elements in linked files, and transient graphics for jigs – Stable representation voodoo for hatch dimensions – Dimensioning hatch pattern on ceiling – Dimensioning hatch pattern in linked file – Filter elements in linked file – RubberBand jig…

Embedded browser plans are maturing further, and what to use for stable parameter identification – Move from CefSharp to WebView2 – Stable parameter identifier for use in formula – CrowdStrike outage – Ai models trained on AI-generated data collapse – Open source AI is the path forward…

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,…