tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51361398205235256562024-09-05T02:40:59.316-07:00dp Stuff started out as a blog to document and share adventures in parametric modeling and computational design. Over some period of time it grew into a design technology consultancy and a repository for custom Revit API and Grasshopper tools. dp Stuff specializes in: -Custom Software Development for AEC -Revit / Navisworks Add-Ins Development -Design Technology Consultancy Dima Chiriacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10018781634740627942noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136139820523525656.post-65232480006858640402013-04-25T05:09:00.005-07:002013-04-25T05:09:42.586-07:00

 I meant to write a post about a one curious Revit -related issue that we had in-house that is related to Revit Groups and best practices on how efficiently handle unit types (condo unit / hotel unit layouts etc) with Revit. So, we do a lot of hotels and multistory residential buildings. In schematics when we work on unit layouts (either hotel or condo units) we keep demising walls

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I'd like to bring up the importance of being able to do a simple Google query and how it affects our learning patterns. When people talk about BIM software and its adoption in companies all over the world one of the things that gets mentioned the most is its "steep learning curve". I would partially agree with that especially if we talk about AEC professionals that spent 1-2 decades operating

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Now here is something to brag about - WorksetExplorer Revit Addin from dp Stuff Utils got the Editor's Choice Award from Tim Grimm's Revit Add-Ons Website! We've had lots of downloads over a year or so for our Revit Utils Addins but that was the very first award that dp Stuff got! So, many thanks to Tim for this award and for spreading the word on his blog to the Revit community about new useful

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PermRemoveAreasRooms Revit API addin allows you to delete rooms or areas permanently on the fly directly from any of your Revit views. As you most likely know to delete rooms or areas permanently from your Revit document you must do it from room or area schedule only. Sometimes you want to delete room and make it “Not Placed” so you can reuse it later especially if its physical location

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 And again back to the issue of how to remove empty tags in Revit 2013. Looking at the my blog's traffic it seems like the  Find and Delete Empty Tags Revit Python script has generated some interest. I actually do use it a lot and it made sense for it to graduate from Revit script into a Revit API addin and another addition to dp_Utils productivity tools, especially if there were

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One of the things that I do before sharing our Revit model with consultants is to clean it up from as many unnecessary views as possible. That considerably reduces the size of the model and it is usually considered a good practice to do so. The truth is that often you can leave just a single view in the project because all that maters is the geometry. However when sharing model while in DDs

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In this post I will demo a Revit API Addin called WorksetExplorer that will make it easier to manage your worksets. Probably most everyone who has ever dealt with workshared projects knows how tedious sometimes it gets to keep elements on them organized. We previously discussed some "dos and don'ts" regarding worksets in this post which triggered a heated and informative discussion

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Here is another task that might get time consuming but can be easily be overcome with a short Python script and Revit API that has to deal with empty and orphaned tags . Let me run it by you. Lets take door tagging for example. There is a nice "out-of-the-box" Revit tool called TagAll. Say, you want to tag all the doors in a view, so you run the TagAll tool, pick the tag and tag all the doors

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Continuation of Learn to Code! PART-1 (Children) ...but that is not really the point that I was trying to make – teaching children programming is a no-brainer (I hope so!). But what about us – the professionals that are already part of active workforce? Some obvious questions come to mind: 1) Could we use a little bit of programming skills at work / in everyday life? 2) Or has that ship sailed

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That video above is from the organization called CODE.ORG - I just recently ran into it online and the information on their website gave me a lot of food for thought. In a nutshell CODE.ORG organization is actively advocating for adding more programming to schools' curricula. Ask yourself what is the thing that you interact with the most during the day? For the vast majority of us the answer

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I ran into the Guide Grid property of the Revit Sheet Views recently. I know that this tool has been out there for a while, but I guess I never really came across this functionality. So since I didn't know about it just until recently the way I was handling the alignment of viewports on the sheets is via grid embedded in the titleblock families (talking about doing some more research before

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Going back to my earlier post on cropping Revit 3D Views to selection with Revit Python Shell - I ended up using this functionality so often every day that it made sense to make a Revit API Addin out of it. I added some functionality to it where user can either have elements preselected and run the addin or the element ids can be typed in/pasted once the CropViewToSelection is invoked. It is

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When you do navigate through your Revit model and trying to look up a certain condition 2D views usually don't tell you the whole story. It is a good idea to isolate a certain area in a 3D view. The Section Box function comes in very handy in this case - you can crop out that particular condition that you are looking at and see what is going on. Often when the model gets "heavy" trying to drag

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Workset organization and their settings are an important part of Revit project. If used correctly you can rip great benefits from it, however they are far too often misused. Below is my "2 cents" on several things that I think are pretty important when dealing with them. 1) Using Worksets to control your visibility graphics for your production views. Please, DON'T DO THAT! That is just not what

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Somewhere around 10 month ago I started posting download links to my free dp Stuff  Revit API addins. Since then there has been quite a few downloads at the Free Stuff page. Some of the addins were more popular than the others and it has been  very interesting to observe which ones would take the lead download - wise. Thanks to everyone that downloaded and gave them a try, and my hope

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I have ran into this issue long time ago (maybe when migrating to Revit 2012) and ever since wanted to share the solution . We have used custom dpStuff addins in the office since Revit 2011. The way it was initially set up is that the actual DLL files that contained the addins were placed on one of the network drives and depending on the needs of each user we would place a corresponding .addin

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Do you have any plans for this Friday (November 2nd) night? If you do then try to cancel them and come visit us at NBWW in our Coral Gables office, if you don't then you have no excuse not to come! NBWW is celebrating its 45th birthday this year and for this occasion we are opening our doors from 7pm-10pm this Friday night as a part of Coral Gables Gallery Night! You can imagine how much

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 This is a little off this blog's topic but late last week we at NBWW learned a some great news that I'd like to share with everybody. NBWW project “1450 Brickell Office Tower” was selected as a 2012 Project of the Year by the ULI (Urban Land Institute) Southeast Florida/Caribbean at 2012 Vision Awards event. 1450 Brickell Office Tower is a 35 Stories 540,000 sf office space with

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I've had a few request a while back after I posted Randomizer for the first time to add some functionality that would allow to store the settings for the parameters that were randomized. Basically the problem was that once user set the parameters and min/max bounds values for randomization and then runs the command the Randomizer would do its thing and then close. So, if the user is not

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I recently posted a short Revit Python script/ solution here on how to change your text to upper case in response to this blog post. So I guess that this will be a follow-up with a much more user-friendly version of a Revit API that will be a useful addition to quickly growing arsenal of Revit extensions at my workplace (NBWW). This free addin allows you to alter the CASE of Revit TextNote

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Here is another Revit utility addin that I wrote the other day. It is called NumberStuffByDirection and it does exactly what the name suggests - it batch-numbers elements in sequence. Below you will find a short video demonstration on how it functions. Basically you need to have an Integer Instance parameter in the elements that you want to number (i.e. parking spot number).  

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Here is one of sample attractor IronPython scripts demoed during lecture at SCAD (thanks to Scott Dietz for organizing it!). To those that are unfamiliar with the concept - elements are tested for proximity to a selected object that acts as an "attractor". Based on this values a gradient is created (in the 0 to 1 range). This values alter the instance properties of elements accordingly to

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In response to this post on Revit3d blog Assuming that you have IronPython Shell installed... - Select text boxes that you want the text to be converted to upper case - Open your IronPython Console - Paste this code below: import clr clr.AddReference('RevitAPI') clr.AddReference('RevitAPIUI') from Autodesk.Revit.DB import * app = __revit__.Application

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Have you ever ran into a problem when you needed to display some additional information in your Revit level tags such as NGVD elevation for instance? One thing for sure – please do not try to edit the level name by setting it to something like “Level 1 (+ 3'-6” NGVD)”. This is messy and might get you in all sorts of troubles with your plan/RCP views down the road.

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Unable to display content. Adobe Flash is required. It has been a common issue on the large Revit projects with tons of different views - searching through the tree-browser for the ones that you want to open. Revit 2013 has that search functionality, which partially solves the problem but is still not very user friendly nor fast way to access your views. So, I usually during a Revit

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