API & Dynamo

Extract Top and Bottom Floor Surfaces

If you are working with shape-edited slabs in Revit, it can be difficult to coordinate with a civil engineer who is working in Civil...

Delaunay Triangulation with Dynamo

I was reading a twit by Dimitar Venkov and it caught my attention, how can you use Dynamo to create a triangular mesh from...

RevitAPI: how to get point clouds?

From Revit > Insert > Point Cloud, we can insert point clouds into Revit, then how to get those points information via API? Inspect with...

RevitAPI: how to find code examples for macro of python or ruby?

One of the new features of Revit 2016 API is that Revit now supports macro written in Python or Ruby. But there is no Python...

Import CSV and LandXML

There are essentially three different methods for creating Topography in Revit: Place Points manually Create from Important Instance (dwg) Create from Points Files (csv or txt) When working...

How to Build Navisworks Search Sets from Revit Elements and Properties

This recent post on Dynamo Nodes shows how a simple Navisworks Search Set can be built by Dynamo running inside of Revit: Create Navisworks...

Print PDF From Dynamo @ ArchiLab

I’ve been trying to get traction with Dynamo at work for a while now, and I think people are starting to pay a little...

Capturing an image of the current AutoCAD document using .NET

This is a topic that has been addressed a few times on this blog, whether by posts that use the 3D graphics system to...