Re: Revit Schedule "ShowHeader" Flag
Ha, I guess when I saw ScheduleDefinition.ShowHeaders in the What's New for Revit 2015 I just stopped looking forward. http://www.revitapidocs.com/2015/new_2015.html The fact that it's in the 2016...
View ArticleRe: Performance difference between Dynamo vs Revit API
Hi Jeremy, Dynamo has its own geometry engine, allowing it to perform more types of geometric operations than Revit can do.E.g. there are more possible ways of object intersection. As far as I can see,...
View ArticleRe: Ceiling by sketch and shape editing tools
Dear Erik, Thank you for your report. I would like to pass it on to the development team for further analysis and comment. In order to do so, we require a complete reproducible case including a minimal...
View ArticleRe: Performance difference between Dynamo vs Revit API
Yup, sure. Thank you. Only Rajesh can reveal what exactly he is doing and where the bottleneck might be...
View ArticleRe: Exporting windows dimensions to a existing excel file.
Ok. I solved my problem getting back in the script and getting the parameter as double (feets) instead of string (meters). Then, I made a conversion and when exporting Excel loads the data perfectly. I...
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Re: Performance difference between Dynamo vs Revit API
Attached is script which we are using. Dynamo is converting Revit topography to polysurface first and this topography is 650 Hectare area site with 1.00m interval contour information. If we could...
View ArticleRe: Performance difference between Dynamo vs Revit API
I do not know exactly what the Dynamo nodes you are using do, so I cannot say. Yes, that does sound like a valid optimisation starting point to me, just guessing, of course. As said, simply benchmark...
View ArticleWindow Grid Custom Parameter Tutorials
Does anyone know where I might find online tutorials on setting up custom window mullions (grids) for traditional, craftsman, prairie, no grids, etc? I was using the Anderson Windows families and they...
View ArticleRe: Batch process export from Revit to Navisworks
Here is code example you can refine and run, FYI: public Result Execute(ExternalCommandData commandData, ref string message, ElementSet elements) { Application revitApp =...
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Re: TableView.GetCalculatedValueText and TableView.GetCalculatedValueName failin
Hey Jeremy, I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that the GetCalculatedValueName method would return the value in the RED field below -- it also happens to be the first row in this schedule. In other...
View ArticleRe: Get the Selected Cell in a Schedule (not the Object)
So I guess my first question is: What is the end game of all this? Is your plan to get the value of multiple cells and export them to a spreadsheet or are you intending on only getting one value? If...
View ArticleRe: Get the Selected Cell in a Schedule (not the Object)
Thanks mepspacenamer for replying. I've been struggling with trying to get the selected cell location for days. The goal is to allow a user to select one or a few cells, then run a script to use...
View ArticleRe: How do I go into Group Edit mode with the API? & then return to the main
I've read all of those articles in the past, and I have some concerns. Regarding this article: http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2010/08/editing-elements-inside-groups.htmlI have tried to use...
View ArticleRe: View Filter by Workset name
Hi Rick, Jeremy wrote a post about how to access workset: http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2011/11/read-only-workset-api.html Maybe this helps clarify the logic behind it. I myself also...
View ArticleRe: Update a 2014 solution to 2016...cant solve the error
Hi & How would you edit the portion of code to work from: Obtaining Element IDs: ICollection<ElementId> selElements = uiDoc.Selection.GetElementIds(); to prompting the user via...
View ArticleRe: revit 2017 crashes after 48 hours of rendering
Dear Dale, Is this a Revit API issue, or an end user question? Are you doing anything programmatically, or just using the standard Revit user interface? Please note that this discussion forum is...
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Unable to Get "Structural Trusses" from the categories, but shows up in watches
I have a weird situation. I'm trying to get the "Structural Trusses" from categories by using get_Item(), but it always crashes. I went through the entire list of categories in the Visual Studio...
View ArticleRe: Unable to Get "Structural Trusses" from the categories, but shows
I'm now getting the same issue with the category named "Runs." When my get_Item malfunctioned, I even made a loop to search by name, and it still excludes "Runs" and "Structural Trusses." Not sure...
View ArticleRe: Create installer for Revit application
Hi, I will like to know if there is any new better way of making a .msi installer than by using the RevitRubyShell in this two last years. If there is not, any short step by step guide to do the msi...
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