Revit API Basics
- Introduction: A Simple Macro
- Prompt user to select an element & get element info
- Prompt user to select edge or face & get edge/face info
- Selection - getting and setting selected elements
- Find Elements - FilteredElementCollector #1
- Find Elements - FilteredElementCollector #2
- Find Elements - LINQ queries
- Find Drafting Views that contain a CAD Link
- Create an External Command
- Family Types and Parameters
- Get Line Length and Convert Units
.NET, C# and general programming basics
- Read and Write Text Files
- Directory and Path operations
- Read from Excel into a Revit API external command
- Write Revit data to Excel
- Exception Handling
- Code Reuse and Helper Functions
- Obsolete Members
- Creating Windows Forms for User Input
Element Operations
- Delete an element - Intro to modifying the document
- Create text note and get and set parameter values
- Set parameter value & Check parameter storage type
- Built in parameters
- Collecting element area and keynote properties
- Create wall
- Create Family Instance (Furniture)
- Create Family Instance (Door)
- Element Rotation
- Get Workset of an element
Element Geometry
- Element Location - LocationCurve & LocationPoint
- Get geometry of host faces
- Get Curves and Solids of an element
Debugging Revit API Code
- Step Into a Macro
- Debugging external commands in Visual Studio
Intermediate / Advanced topics
- Set Project Units
- Selection Filters
- Events
- Ribbon UI - tab, panels, buttons
- Write comments to the journal file
- Extensible Storage
- Reference Intersector
- Dynamic Model Update
Source Code from BoostYourBIM blog posts
- Get Categories & Materials from multiple Revit families
- Record view creation date in a shared parameter
Responses to Questions
- Code Samples
- File Version Check
- Topo From Lines
