7 Steps To Get Started With Revit API For Beginners [BIM Coordinator Summit 2023]

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🎯Revit API can be very confusing but if you follow certain steps you can learn it much easier. Check out this presentation: 7 Steps to Get Started with Revit API that I made for BIM Coordinator Summit 2023. It's focused for beginners but I also provide plenty of useful code snippets in the second half of the video.

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[kafedziski]

Awsome presentation, well done!

Really holds attention, love the use of Morph in it, clean and simple!

Well done for all of the work you've put into this, can't wait for the course to come out!

Thanks ! ;D

[smitbangare]

Your EF-Tools plugin saved me multiple times. Thank you :)

[toothbrush]

Thank you as always!! I was unable to get the pick objects multiple to work as written in the video. But below worked, Revit 2020. It's possible I had a typo, I could not quite see the end of the script, but I'm pretty sure thats right.

from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
from Autodesk.Revit.UI import Selection

doc =
uidoc = __revit__.ActiveUIDocument

ref_picked_objects =
picked_objects = [doc.GetElement(ref) for ref in ref_picked_objects]

[willlywillly]

Great video on getting started with Python Revit API!

[manhalsousli]

I love your videos, they are really insightful, however, could you please recommend me on which one you think is more efficient to learn, Grasshopper or API Revit, please note that I am a BIM Coordinator and a Revit Expert and have a basic of Grasshopper of Rhino, could you please give me your opinion ?

[maxxtread]

Привет, Эрик!, will there be a small video tutorial on how to create a user interface (a purple window with various filling options), like you have in EF_Tools in the "Graphics Overviews" tool?

[inouizi]

Thank you as always Erik! I have an idea for a video if you're interested.. I was thinking someone should dive in to pyRevit forms and explain how they were made.. I think Ehsan started in his channel but stopped.. I think that will allow everyone to be able to create their own custom forma 😊👍🏼

[iaconst.]

create elements part 3 and part 4 please!

[PANDURANG]

how to share our application in 500 computers in organization?

[ummarkhan]

Hello Erik,
I have some Doubts Regarding Revit API, After Completing Dynamo Course, I am Looking to Upgrade my skill to Next level,
But I am Confused Between Iron Python & PyRevit.

Both are Same Having same Logic or Different? Please Clarify.

After learning Dynamo We need to do Python Scripting with RevitAPI then we further move to C# to Create Addins, but in Between i Came to know About pyRevit.


thanks,

[thumDerr]

I just love how all explanation fails to get the type of parameters right, because even the concept is so messy. I couldn't find a way either to describe it ever in a way that makes sense, but still valid. It is more like a matrix, because both family and project parameters can be shared parameters and built-in parameters. So the closest I got is there are built in parameters, and user created parameters. User created parameters can be attached to elements (on a project level or on a family level, can be non-shared or shared, different behaviour forr each combination), or globally to the project itself: global parameters, which is kinda the same as a family parameter where the family itself is the project. Scary.
Anyway, nice overview of the whole Revit API world, wish I had something similar when I started.