Autodesk A360 Collaboration v5 for Revit 2015.

Luke Johnson

This coincides with UR8, and interestingly includes an update to Dynamo 0.8.0. I would recommend using Autodesk Application Manager to obtain this entire package.

Collaboration for Revit v5 download:
http://revit.downloads.autodesk.com/download/2015RVT_UR8/RCAO2015.msi

Personal Accelerator:
http://revit.downloads.autodesk.com/download/2015RVT_UR8/PACR.msi   

This is the packaged Dynamo installer:
http://revit.downloads.autodesk.com/download/2015RVT_UR8/DynamoInstall.msi   

Revit 2015 Update Release 8 for R2.

Luke Johnson

Download UR8 for Revit 2015:
For R2
http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/Revit/UR8/Autodesk_Revit_2015-x64_Update8_forR2.exe   

Not for R2
http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/Revit/UR8/Autodesk_Revit_2015-x64_Update8.exe

Enhancements List (R2):
http://revit.downloads.autodesk.com/download/2015RVT_RTM/UR8/Enhancements_List_RVT_2015_UR8_forR2.pdf

Readme (R2):
http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/Revit/UR8/Autodesk_Revit_2015_R2_UR8_Readme.htm

Not for R2 – Readme
 http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/Revit/UR8/Autodesk_Revit_2015_UR8_Readme.htm

Not for R2 – Enhancements
http://revit.downloads.autodesk.com/download/2015RVT_RTM/UR8/Enhancements_List_RVT_2015_UR8.pdf

Get a List of Element IDs from a Row in a Revit Schedule

Luke Johnson

Here’s how:

  1. Filter and group your Schedule so that it shows the elements you want on a particular row
  2. Select that Row and pick Highlight in Model
  3. After the elements are highlighed, you can start the “IDs of Selection” command. This will provide a text box with a list of every single element ID that was selected. You can then copy (Ctrl+C) and paste this into your desired application, like Excel or even a text file for consumption in Dynamo.
  4. Optional: Save the selection using typical Revit “Save Selection” option

If you do copy the IDs to a text file, you can use a simple Dynamo definition like this to convert the Element IDs to actual elements. Obviously, once you have the element list in Dynamo, you can do lots of fun things with it.

What if you have a list of line separated element IDs, like one per Excel row? You can use Dynamo to parse these to Elements, and even create a saved Selection Set too (thanks to Clockwork), like this:

Bakery for Dynamo.

Luke Johnson

Honestly, I’m not that great at Dynamo and Python and the rest… hopefully one day? In the meantime I have been helped a lot by Andreas and Konrad and Julien and a few others on the forum. I’ve decided to combine my currently released custom nodes into a package called Bakery that I intend to add to and maintain. You can download it through the package manager.

Also, check out this forum post for a list of Dynamo resources (thanks to Sol Amour):
http://www.revitforum.org/dynamo-bim/24005-dynamo-learning-resources.html#post136270

Upcoming Web Events for Building Design, Fabrication, Construction and Infrastructure

Luke Johnson

Building Design:
Design Continuity; Building Performance Analysis throughout the Design Process
May 21, 2015 11am PDT / 2pm EDT

Live Webcast: Keys to a Successful BIM Pilot Series: Piloting your first BIM Program. See how one company did it right
May 27, 2015 11am PDT / 2pm EDT

Construction:
Reduce Time Spent on Construction Documentation
May 28, 2015 8am PDT / 11am EDT

Count on BIM: Exploring the productivity benefits of enhanced model based quantification techniques
June 10, 2015 8am PDT / 11am EDT

Conquering the chaos: How BIM can help improve project coordination
June 25, 2015 8am PDT / 11am EDT

Read more:
Building Design, Fabrication, Construction and Infrastructure Events Center

Two ways to fix a System Classification vs System Type Error in Revit

Luke Johnson

You may have to clean up or fix up a mechanical Revit model where the Duct Fittings have become out of sync with the system they are supposedly connected to. For some reason, the System Classification and System Type may not match up. There are at least two ways to fix this:

  • drag and rejoin one of the connectors to the correct system. The system should regenerate.
  • Cut one of the problem elements, then Paste Align – Same Place. After this, you will need to use Connect Into to get the element connected with the system. You might find that doing this on one Fitting will force a regeneration on the entire system, fixing all Duct Fittings with this problem at once.

I have put together a quick screencast for each of these methods:


If you have another way of fixing these problems, feel free to comment. Thanks!