Data Integrations for Revit API Plugins C#

Name: Data Integrations for Revit API Plugins C#
Rating: 4.0 (16 reviews)

Learn some some usefull tips to improve your Revit Addins, by managing data on functions.

Created byEnrique Galicia

Last updated 1/2023

English

English [Auto],

What you'll learn

Learn how to add new Features to Created AddIns
How to set Loading Bars on your addin for long reviewing transactions
Implement the extensible storage for a easy retrieve non user visible in the Revit Modeling Process
Implement the use of JSON files to your development so data its been read and stored, and can lead to API calls

Course content

5 sections • 16 lectures • 1h 41m total length

Introduction to the Course1:39
Explore data integrations for Revit API plugins from a data management perspective, building on C# Revit API plugin creation and extensible storage, JSON, and CSB file workflows.
Check of all necesary requirements3:32
Install and review Revit API references, configure the Revit manager and Revit lookup across versions 2020 to 2023, and clean project references for debugging and library setup.
Resources0:01

Creating DLL Libraries10:11
Extract functions into a C# class library and build a reusable DLL for Revit API plugins by moving analysis and forms classes and configuring references.
Fixing LIbraries3:14
Clean and fix the libraries by making classes public, update versioning in assembly information, restore missing forms, and re-add library references to enable debugging despite DLL separation.
Testing and Debugging3:13
Master testing and debugging in a Revit API plugin by building the solution, fixing namespaces, and validating library versus original references during form testing and element selection.

Creation of a Data Schema on Addins7:20
Learn to create an extensible storage schema in Revit add-ins using a schema builder, define fields such as reference ID, and store data within a transaction.
Get or Create Scheme5:14
Learn to get or create a schema by name using extensible storage in a Revit API plugin, by inspecting existing schemas and creating one when needed.
Adding and Reading Entities5:48
Selecting and Integrated on Functions7:07
Learn to add references between Revit elements using extensible storage and a reference schema, selecting single or multiple elements, and prepare to read and save data to CSV files.

Saving to CSV Files10:19
Export Revit element coordinates to a CSV by selecting a save location, iterating all elements and family instances, building lines with a string builder, and saving to an extraction CSV.
Loading from CSV Files10:14
Open a CSV file via a filtered open-file dialog, read lines, convert them to object creations with location points, and commit a Revit transaction to place symbols.
Creating a Family Selector with the CSV Data9:35
Create a Revit API workflow that builds a family selector from CSV data, lists all generic model family symbols, and places selected symbols as family instances.
Debuging posible problems3:19
Debug the Revit API plugin by building, attaching the process, and diagnosing the format converter with string splitting. Ensure rotation export and correct object placement during import.

Creating a JSON File Data10:57
Explore reading and exporting json in a revit api workflow by using a json library to serialize objects, create json objects, and save as a json file for api usage.
Quering and creating objects from a JSON File Data9:22
Learn to import and create Revit objects from a JSON file in C#, using Newtonsoft.Json serialization, stream reading, and symbol alignment to produce active family objects.

Requirements

Basic Knowledge of Revit any Version
Had taken the course Step by Step C# for Revit API for Plugin Creation
A computer with Revit, Visual Studio, Revit Lookup and AddIn Manager installed
Had taken the course of C# Revit Plugin Creation Windows Forms User Interphase

Description

This course is about data integrations to improve your Revit API plugins following a data managment perspective.

We will pick where we left on the previous courses From Zero Step by Step C# for Revit API for PlugIn Creation , and C# Revit Plugin Creation Windows Forms User Interphase starting with a simple review of refactoring on applications, adding new features by library creation use of the extensible storage, CSV files and JSONs.

All of this content has been curated to be easily understood and implemented to your project requirements.

This course is fully oriented towards architects, engineers, and constructors who have seen that automation and programming are not out of their scope if they plan to succeed and increase their full potential in areas that always require their attention.

This course is planned to be complement previous courses to set a new programming agenda that is more flexible and accessible to architects and engineers, and not just programmers.

Help subsequent training agendas to be released as soon as possible by recommending, reviewing, and buying this type of content. Join me in bringing all of these capabilities to reality and transforming your BIM skills, and enjoy the freedom of possibilities to make technology work the way you need it to.

And with all my hopes, I will do my best to ensure that this content will change your way of working for the better moving forward.

Who this course is for:

BIM Modelers who want to spice the game by automating their workflows and create addins
Dynamo Enthusiasts that want to go deeper into automation and the creation of hard coded solutions.
BIM Managers and Coordinators that need to have that extra set of skills to improve their work aproaches.
Enginners that want to fasten modeling by automation and programing

Data Integrations for Revit API Plugins C#

What you'll learn

Explore related topics

Course content

Previous Requirements3 lectures • 5min

Building Libraries3 lectures • 17min

Extensible Storage4 lectures • 25min

CSV Files4 lectures • 33min

JSON Files Managment2 lectures • 20min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: