AI is growing more widespread and useful in the AEC, BIM and even Revit API arena – Global AI statistics and charts – AI challenges for complex app coding – What is agentic AI? – MCP gaining traction – MCP server for Fusion – Revit MCP – GPT prompting guide – OpenAI o3, o4-mini and Codex – M$ AI packages, VS Code and Codex – Codex analyses Revit add-in – Gemini ranks high – Chef generates and launches full stack – DeepWiki analyses all GitHub repos – MarkItDown converts anything to MD – Postmortem of a startup – Demystifying shebang... Read more →
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March 27, 2025
Revit Gen AI: MCP, RAG and Vibe
AI-related news keeps piling in fast – Revit Vibe: generative AI in the BIM – Revit MCP connector – Convert Revit API help file to RAG for LLM – AI effect on programming jobs – Nice Jupyter interactive graph – Art is theft... Read more →
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February 05, 2025
Tools for Extensible Storage and OAuth Auth0
Revit API tools for extensible storage and OAuth Auth0, notes on AI news, a Mac feature and electrical energy storage – SchemaMigrations extensible storage lib – OpenAI ChatGPT deep research – OAuth Auth0 in a Revit add-in – Docling markdown generator – MacOS copy paste sans formatting – DIY open source redox flow battery... Read more →
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January 08, 2025
LLM Prompting, RAG Ingestion and New Projects
New projects and progress using LLMs for Revit API – Add-In wizard 2025 – DirectContext3D video – Rvt-App browses BasicFileInfo – Revit API support prompt – pyRevit scripting prompt – Promptimal prompt optimiser – Jupyter Forge viewer – Superhuman multi-player poker – OpenAI o1 hacks and cheats – Writing Doom short film on superintelligence – Cosmos for physical AI – MarkItDown converts files to Markdown – NV-Ingest parses documents for RAG – Gitingest makes GitHub repos LLM-ready – LangSmith intro and LLM for dummies... Read more →
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July 12, 2024
APS Accelerator and Q4R4 Chunking with Claude
Vacation time, accelerator time, and chunking TBC for LLM RAG – APS accelerator Barcelona in September – Q4R4 with LLM and RAG – Claude.ai helped chunk TBC blog posts – Vacation... Read more →
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October 28, 2023
Pernickety Blogging
Some important, some less important and some absolutely pernickety recommendations on perfecting API-related blog posts... Read more →
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May 25, 2018
Multi-Target Add-Ins, AI, Markdown and Job Offer
Let's finish this week with a blog post completely free of source code – but not of Revit API topics – Compiling add-ins for multiple Revit versions – Generative design for office planning – Handy Markdown tutorial – Job offer for senior software engineer in Tel Aviv... Read more →
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December 15, 2016
Viewport Bring to Front and C++ Revit Add-In
Two topics today, on reordering viewports to determine their respective occlusion, and setting up a C++ Revit add-in project – Bringing a viewport to the front – Change the draw order of a viewport (bring to front) for cases when you need to use simplified duplicate of the same view for background, e.g., ceiling grid for example – Code clean-up – Setting up a Visual Studio C++ Revit add-in project... Read more →
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February 26, 2016
tbc – The Building Coder Source and Index on GitHub
Developers frequently lament bad search functionality on Typepad-hosted blogs. Furthermore, it is always handy to have an offline local copy of any kind of important documentation you need to consult regularly. With a local copy of The Building Coder source text, you can use your standard system tools to search and index locally in any form you like. Finally, wouldn't it be nice to have a simple line-by-line index of all The Building Coder blog posts ever published? – Publishing The Building Coder source and index on GitHub – GitHub size limitations – Alternative blogging platforms – Fork and clone to create your own local installation – El Perro Semihundido by Goya... Read more →
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August 28, 2015
Markdown, Fusion Accelerator $$$, Revisions and Bulk Upgrade
Today, I discuss my new Markdown blog post format, Fusion 360, the Fusion accelerator and a couple of Revit issues: Using the Markdown blog post format; Fusion 360; Fusion 360 for game artists; Fusion 360 accelerator; The Revit Revision API; Running a background bulk upgrade batch, Banksy's Dismaland bemusement park... Read more →
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