It seems to me that the addin is better because one can apply a Material to the import. The native method does have an advantage of perhaps being more robust for huge OBJs, but meshes that big will overload Revit and make it very sluggish. Of course, native is included in Revit 2022, so there […]
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Upgrading Revit API Apps For Newer Revit Versions
Every version of a Revit API app must reference some DLLs that come with Revit’s releases. Open the .sln of your API code. In Visual Studio’s Solution Explorer, see Properties. One can see what Revit version an app was written for by the path of some of those references. Remove Revit references from old Revit […]
How to get coordinates of View, then use them for placing other Views in Dynamo
Revit lookup trick for Dynamo
Using Autodesk Viewer for a Revit Project
Explore using Autodesk Viewer for Revit files
Getting Revit Background Building Massing From InfraWorks
In InfraWorks Click Model Builder Give address and zoom/pan to area of interest BIM 360 folders??? I don’t know if this is required. But I selected one. Create Wait… When you get the email notification, Double-click the new project’s icon in InfraWorks Click tools icon Export 3D Model Choose filename and type FBX (Collada […]
Updating Origin of Meshes with MeshLab
A customer had trouble importing some meshes to Revit with my Mesh Import app. The problem was that the origins of those meshes were far from their centers. I fixed them with Meshlab. I got the method to fix them from this forum post. OBJ before: OBJ after: In MeshLab Open the file (File > […]
How to Publish a Pano Tour with Enscape Renderings
There are two easy ways of making rendered pano tours out of Revit. One is to use Autodesk’s cloud rendering service. That method is explained my my post at https://revthat.com/how-to-make-a-pano-tour-from-revit . Another way is to use Enscape. Enscape is a real-time game engine addin for Revit that costs $47 per month. One of its features is making […]
Preparing Meshes for Import to Revit as DirectShape
This article answers the most common problem customers have when using my Mesh Import from OBJ files app. That app makes Revit elements that are called DirectShape from meshes. A DirectShape may only be made via Revit’s API or other programming methods, not its user interface. The data that may be contained in an OBJ […]
Search for Dynamo Nodes from a Website
For the Beyond AEC Hackathon, I made a WordPress site with a post for each Dynamo node I had installed on my PC. It only has nodes from my packages’ DYF folder, currently. The idea is that it is hard-to-find nodes and their package names through current search methods. The site has an internal search […]
How to Make a Seamless Revit Rendering Texture from a Photo
Take a picture Crop picture. In this case, I chose a 1 x 1 ratio. (I like to use FastStone Image Viewer.) Save in a folder In this example we will start with “Dirt – Dark Brown” OOTB (non-advanced asset Revit 2019, regular asset Revit 2008-2018). The rendering looks like this. Meh Duplicate the material […]