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Exporting Image and Setting a Default 3D View Orientation 26 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Here is a nice little explanation by Alexander Ignatovich of Investicionnaya Venchurnaya Companiya (that sounds like a venture investment company to me) on how to export an image file for a family or ...
Retrieving All Available Line Styles 23 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
I mentioned an AEC DevBlog post providing sample code showing how to retrieve all line styles through the CurveElement GetLineStyleIds property and mentioned that you can create a temporary curve elem...
Happy Birthday, Dear Building Coder! 22 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
This is the thousandth and fourth post on The Building Coder, and today is its fifth birthday, a good double reason for celebration. The first post ever was a warm welcome on August 22, 2008. Here is ...
ADN Training Material on GitHub and Portathon Reminder 21 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
My colleague Gopinath Taget and I completed the migration of the ADN Revit API training material in preparation for the Sydney Revit API training, even though the training actually ended up based on c...
Determining Absolutely All Visible and Hidden Elements 20 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Yesterday, I discussed the view filter API. One issue mentioned that was not completely answered was the following: Question 3: I would like to export only visible objects. Using the element IsHidden ...
View Filter API 19 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
One long-standing developer wish list item that was fulfilled by the Revit 2014 API is the ability to access, add and control the view filters listed in the visibility dialogue. The Revit API now prov...
Exchange App Videos and DevTV YouTube Channel 16 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
I recently mentioned the Exchange App Portathon event at which you can Earn $100 Submitting an App. To further support and simplify this task, my colleagues Mikako Harada and Gopinath Taget have latel...
Generating a MidCurve Between Two Curve Elements 15 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Here is a fun little geometric issue raised by Bang in his or her comment on Revit curves and their parameterisation, and also discussed quite extensively in this discussion thread on how to create mi...
Language Independent Section View Type Id Retrieval 14 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
I already discussed changing the viewport type and mentioned Steve Mycynek's all-encompassing AU class CP3133 Using the Revit Schedule and View APIs explaining everything else there is to know about t...
Deleting and Updating Extensible Storage Schema 13 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
We discussed a number of extensible storage schema topics in the past. Once you've started using it, you may run into the need to update or delete something. Discussing that also provides an opportuni...
