Tag: precast

Missing Third Party Updaters in Revit And How to Fix

Luke Johnson

You might receive a message like this when opening a model in Revit:

Missing Third Party Updaters
Missing Third Party Updaters

 

 

An Updater is a piece of code that basically works to continuously sync a Revit model with some external properties or logic. In this case, the updaters missing included:

  • REXExtension: DReinfFootingSpread
  • REXExtension: DReinfWall
  • REXExtension: DReinfColumn

This was in a Structural design model that I received in Revit 2017 format, and I then upgraded to Revit 2018.

I then tried to install the “Structural Precast Extension” for Revit 2018 – but the error still appeared.

After that, I installed the “Revit Extensions for Autodesk Revit 2018” package.

Which appears on this Extensions Ribbon:

This solved the problem – the “Missing Third Party Updater” message did not appear again when opening this model in Revit 2018.

You can download Revit Extensions from:

  • then Filter or Search for Extensions
  • and Download and Install

On this particular project, I’m acting in my usual Strategic BIM and VDC Implementation capacity, and we are rolling out our typical software stack to a large project team. This includes:

  1. Setting up BIM360 for Revit cloud worksharing, federating models in Revit and creating control model/s
  2. Syncing data to Deep Space – we will immediately use Deep Space for project quantification, compliance, and model compare between Tender dataset and current Revit dataset
  3. Exporting models to Revizto for team review and collaboration

Pre-Cast Construction Simulation and Planning use Excel Programme, Dynamo Recursion and Revit Visualisation

Luke Johnson

Adam Sheather, aka gytaco, has put out some pretty interesting content in the past week. He was trying to solve a programming puzzle to do with pre-cast panels, molds, concrete curing etc. Based on his post and video, he punched a heap of programme data in Excel, made Dynamo read and write to his master spreadsheet, and then got Dynamo to push some data into some Revit families with arrays so that he could visualise his pre-cast yard at a given point in time. Very smart stuff!

As Adam says, the Excel-Dynamo-Revit solution can:
“effectively give me a week by week view of what the precast yard will look like based on the updated Revit data, installation dates, actual to date and the pre-cast managers forecasting all in one. Plus I would be able to tag and print out if required the information!”

 Video below:
“example of using Dynamo to update Revit and excel at the same time and push the updated values back into Revit objects”


via
https://twitter.com/Gytaco/status/488281607485145089

And one final Dynamo tip from his post:
Due to the lack of nodes, familiarity and examples in 7.1 I ended up ditching it and jumping back to 0.6.3 which had alot more examples including both the Solar Optimizer and nodes I thought I needed for input/out of excel files that were not in 7.1.
Whole post:
http://stuffandbims.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/introducing-revit-pre-cast-panel.html