What Revit Wants
I recently posted about converting Topography to massing forms using a somewhat “manual”, yet lofted and smooth, method:
Convert Revit Topography into Massing Forms
Harry provides some code to do a similar thing with triangulated flat faces over here:
Read the whole post with macro code
Heads-up via:
Creating a Revit mass from Toposurface geometry https://t.co/pzaunaJlQU via @BoostYourBIM
— Ben Malone (@BenPMalone) January 13, 2014
You may want to know how to set up access to the public macro repository. Here is a bit of a step by step:
Its important that it looks like this in SourceTree:
Upon restart, you should see the Public_2014 tree in your Macro Manager.
To ensure you have the latest version:
(thanks to Troy Gates for above tip)
Note: Make a sample macro and it will populate files and folders in:
C:ProgramDataAutodeskRevitMacros2014
You can also carefully follow the images at :
A public Git repository for sharing Revit Macros at BitBucket | Boost Your BIM – making Revit even better
If you want to submit Revit API code and macros for public review and use, check out:
https://bitbucket.org/BoostYourBIM/revit_api_public
Now, we just need someone to make an API add-in that hooks into BitBucket (somehow), and downloads and installs macros automatically into the Revit session 🙂 We would essentially have an unlimited store of easily accessible plugins in an open source repository … cool, huh?
To submit code, you should login or register for Bitbucket, then send a message to:
https://bitbucket.org/BoostYourBIM
Harry can give you write access.
Associated post:
A public Git repository for sharing Revit Macros at BitBucket | Boost Your BIM – making Revit even better
If you want to learn more about it and code sharing generally, check out
What is version control, and why should you care? | Boost Your BIM – making Revit even better
@lukeyjohnson @AYBABTM @UnderNDA @TroyGates @JayZallan @davidfano Here’s a public repo w/issue tracker & wiki https://t.co/aMocXF6tet
— Boost Your BIM (@BoostYourBIM) October 10, 2013
Use with care!
Get them at:
Revit Coaster: Macros for Deleting Views and Sheets
Boost Your BIM has been posting some awesome stuff. One older post shows you how to quickly purge your Revit model of Imports:
a FilteredElementCollector, a bit of LINQ, a transaction, and Document.Delete to get the imports (but not the links) out of the model.
Check out the code at:
Delete Imported DWGs and Other CAD files � Boost Your BIM – making Revit even better
If you want to learn how to set-up and use macros in Revit, check out:
Setting up your Revit project for inputting macro codes – Benjamin Malone
His detailed post covers:
This little utility is VERY basic. It can basically can record mouse movement and clicks, and keyboard input. You can record a task, save it to a file, open an existing recording, and play. There are some basic options to do with ‘Play Speed’ and number of repeats.
It can even save your recorded macro as an EXE file – however:
There are pros and cons in saving the macro in .rec file or compiling it to an .exe file. Once compiled into an EXE file, you can run the macro without TinyTask. However, the play speed and repeat count/continuous playback option are hardcoded during compilation and can no longer be changed. If you save it into a .rec file, it requires TinyTask to run but you can set the play speed and repeat count/continuous playback.
For more detailed information, check out this post:
TinyTask: Small and Lightweight Automation Software | Raymond.CC Blog
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| Image via Raymond.CC Blog |
