Learn to program the Revit API by Boost Your BIM
What you'll learn
- In this course, you will learn how to write Revit API code in the C# language to perform a wide variety of tasks.
Description
This course is for people who want to do more with the Autodesk Revit building information modeling software.
You can do a lot of great things with Revit as it ships "out of the box" from Autodesk, but there are still many tasks that are repetitive, boring, and error-prone. There are also many situations where you can be more effective and productive if you can add additional functionality to Revit.
This course will cover a wide range of topics in the Revit API. Each topic will be taught by walking through a set of C# code samples that progress from the basics to more advanced concepts.
More content will be added to this new course in the upcoming weeks. If you see a topic that you like added, just let me know and I will try to make that addition.
Who this course is for:
- Revit users who want to do more with Revit.
- No programming experience is needed. Novice programmers may find it helpful to supplement this course with some of the many free resources online.
Course content
- Preview05:28
- 06:56Prompt user to select an element & get element info
- 07:18Prompt user to select edge or face & get edge/face info
- 08:28Selection - getting and setting selected elements
- 14:59Find Elements - FilteredElementCollector #1
- 15:01Find Elements - FilteredElementCollector #2
- 06:37Find Elements - LINQ queries
- 11:40Find Drafting Views that contain a CAD Link
- 06:41Create an External Command
- 08:55Family Types and Parameters
- 16:08Get Line Length and Convert Units
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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- 212 Reviews
- 743 Students
- 3 Courses
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.