BOLT OUT OF THE RED

On a fairly regular basis I’m asked questions along these lines:

• “We’ve been asking for multi-threaded Revit for years. How hard can it be? <Insert usual ADSK expletive>…”(1)
• “Why doesn’t Revit utilise all my PC’s cores like <insert application>…”
• “Revit isn’t a real database, and it’s slow according to our DB expert…(2)”
• “If ArchiCAD can use multiple cores then there should be no reason Revit can’t do it.(3)”

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As anyone who tried the Christmas ribbon solution would have found, it lacked one feature. The ability to handle context switching between standard projects and familiesMore...

It’s that time of the year, so why not finish with a post on what has probably been the most controversial aspect of the Revit 2010 release, the ribbon. More...

is not always the correct approach.More...

Before I cover debugging… It looks like the classic UI is still with us. While this is encouraging as a short term solution and not totally surprising, I can’t see it being in Revit 2011 or above. With the API they’ll have to put back the toolbar code. Which means 3rd party developers will have to accommodate both solutions (ribbons, toolbars). Bit of a mess but then again so is the ribbon and I’m sure there will be many happy customers if they give us a choice until the messribbon is fixed.

Debugging in Revit 2010

I noticed from Ed’s post that he’s having problems debugging in 2010.More...

 How incredibly childish Autodesk. A very experienced AU speaker and organiser dropped because he had the audacity to question decisions…

Thank you though, it makes my comments in this post all the more pertinent. Looks like the headless chickens are still out of their cages…

For Phil I have one word, bugger…

Maybe everyone just needs a holiday ;-)

Yes I have taken my medication and no, I have no crystal ball or prior knowledge ;-) I’ve generally stayed out of the debate over the ribbon UI in Revit 2010. However, this post says too much about Revit development within Autodesk to go unchallenged. No, I’m not saying “if they don’t fix the ribbon in Revit 2011 the world will end”. The issues I’m going to discuss are considerably more fundamental than that…More...

Thanks for the concern from those that were worried ;-) I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth. Very busy and school holidays in Wanaka.

Then very nasty stomach bug went slowly through our whole household. Normal transmissions about to restart…

After a considerable amount of work I’ve finally managed to complete what is by far my most significant Revit API command to date. In trying to figure out what would attract AutoCAD users to Revit I hit upon what I consider to be the missing link. This command will also be very useful for Revit experts.More...

As I explained in part 3 if a command fails to run other than in the Revit executable directory, there is a good chance it’s because of the command assembly was loaded into the wrong binding context (LoadFrom() ) by Revit. In this part of the series I’m going to explain how we can fix this so you can place a command in any directory..More...