Revit API - Materials
What you'll learn
- How to use the Revit API to work with Materials
Requirements
- C# programming & basic understanding of Revit API
Description
This course will help you learn how to perform common operations with Materials in the Revit API. There is a lot of data about materials that exists in Revit's database that is not easily accessible from the Revit User Interface, so the API can be a great help in collecting this data. Please add comments on the course to suggest additional Materials topics that you would like covered.
Who this course is for:
- Revit API developers who want to learn more about the Materials API
Course content
- Preview03:29
- Preview11:23
- 09:10What materials are used & not used in a Revit project?
- 08:12How to get area and volume of materials
- 06:19Material Assets
- 12:17Set material asset color and rotation
- 09:03Find the image file used by a material
Instructor
![Harry Mattison](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Harry is the founder of Boost Your BIM, a software development and training company that collaborates with AEC firms to make Revit better. Boost Your BIM customers benefit from custom-built API applications that extend Revit’s capabilities and enable them to complete their work faster and with better results.
Boost Your BIM has built applications to automate routine tasks, enforce company standards, extract model data, use the Revit UI more efficiently, and solve other problems that would be difficult or impossible to do with Revit in its “out of the box” state.
Harry was an employee of Revit Technology Corporation and Autodesk from 1998 to 2012 and spent four of those years developing and testing new Revit APIs in areas such as the Family Editor, Massing, Analysis Visualization, Dynamic Model Update, and Views & Schedules.