Revit API Docking Panel Selections with WPF and Revit

Name: Revit API Docking Panel Selections with WPF and Revit
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Learn how to use the Selection Event, single WPF for a Dock Panel and Extensible Storage to create application workflows

Created byEnrique Galicia

Last updated 10/2024

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What you'll learn

Learn how to integrate a Dock Panel to Revit with its API 2023
Explore the use of WPF to dockable responses
Use the External events configuration to make active application perform modifications to Models
Learn how to retrieve the current selected object and some Extensible Properties

Course content

4 sections • 17 lectures • 2h 29m total length

Introduction1:28
Connect three components - extensive storage as a data center, interconnected modeling system, and the change selection event - to create doc panel driven workflows for Revit 2023 addins.
Installation Requirements4:05
Prepare the development environment for a Revit API docking panel with WPF using Revit 2023, by creating a .NET Framework class library and adding Revit API references.
Resources

Configuring a WPF Basic Form5:01
Configure a WPF docking panel for Revit by creating a WPF dock panel, registering it on startup, and customizing the UI with layout, appearance, and controls.
Adding Controlers to the WPF Form9:47
Register a dockable pane in the Revit WPF integration, switch the controller from a user control to a page, and configure 64-bit settings for the dockable panel.
Creating a External Command for the Dock Panel8:15
Create an external command to show a dockable window from a Revit add-in, using a manual transaction, registering the dock panel, and testing in Revit 2023.

Selection Event Showing ID of Object8:39
Register a selection changed event for the docking panel to display the selected element's ID in Revit 2023, using a WPF integration.
Display of Multiple Properties9:55
Display multiple properties of a Revit element in a WPF panel by retrieving the element by ID and showing X, Y, Z coordinates for location, depending on category.
Reading additional values for creation12:31
Raise a dock panel event to create and update the user interface. Read family name and coordinates from labels and text boxes, rounding to three decimals.
Creating Handlers and Events10:21
Create and connect an object creation event handler for a dock panel, using an external event to trigger a WPF form and handle create button clicks.
Implementing the execute function13:12
Implement the execute function to create a new family instance in the active document, start and commit a transaction, and configure location, symbol, level, and non-structural type.

Creating Extensible Storage8:53
Implement extensible storage for Revit objects by creating a related data scheme with a related IDs field, and add get/set functions to read and write these values across elements.
Implementing Extensible Storage9:56
Learn to implement extensible storage in a Revit API docking panel by creating a related data schema, retrieving and storing values from the document, and wiring startup initialization.
Adding Data to Elements on Extensible Storage13:26
Use extensible storage to add data to elements via single and multiple selections, reading existing values and updating related data in the Revit API context.
Testing Adding Data And Read from the Dock Panel11:43
Test adding and reading extensible storage data from the docking panel in a Revit API WPF workflow, manage transactions, relate elements, and validate ribbon panel integration.
Adding Visibility of Results11:25
Explore enabling visibility of results in a WPF docking panel for Revit API, displaying element coordinates and IDs, then applying color overrides via an active view transaction.
Testing and Running Functions10:32
Test and run functions in a Revit API docking panel by wiring overrides and event handlers to color selected objects, validate data flow, and refine the doc panel workflow.

Requirements

Basic understanding of building design processes and principles: The course assumes that learners have a general understanding of building design and construction processes.
Access to Autodesk Revit and Visual Studio: Learners will need to have access to Autodesk Revit and Visual Studio in order to complete the course and practice the techniques covered.
Basic knowledge of Revit API Forms and Geometry Analysis

Description

This course uses three components that can push workflows with addins to the next level.

The Use of Extensible Storage as a data centered and interconnected modeling system, the Change Selection Event which filters functionality required and the Dock Panel that would allow us to create application workflows depending on our requirements.

On this course we will learn how to connect those three components and we will use them on future courses to improve modeling experience, data extraction and quality reviews.

This course uses Revit 2023 because the Selection Change Event only exists from that version API.

This course requires you to had review Revit API from Zero, Forms and Extensible Storage, since it doesnt go step by step in some workflows, which as this stage its reasonable to keep creating content.

This course its distributed as it is, with the purpose of being a start point of multiple developments, with all creativity and workflows being as efficient as they can be.

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:

Building design professionals who use Autodesk Revit in their work, and are interested in automating repetitive tasks and improving design accuracy and efficiency
Students and professionals who have a basic understanding of Autodesk Revit and want to learn Topography Block creation for 4d Simulations
Architects, engineers, and construction professionals who want to expand their skill set in building design technology.
Software developers who are interested in learning about building design automation

Revit API Docking Panel Selections with WPF and Revit

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 6min

Creating a DockPanel3 lectures • 23min

Creating External Events5 lectures • 55min

Selection and Extensible Storage6 lectures • 1hr 6min

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