Revit is a necessary course for architects. How to open its door?

? Revit is a series of software names of Autodesk Company. Revit series software is built for building information model (BIM), which can help architects to design, build and maintain buildings with better quality and higher energy efficiency. ?

At present, the software most used by front-line BIM workers is Revit, which is powerful and covers architecture, structure, MEP and other majors. It is also a bit cumbersome and clumsy, because it covers too many majors, which not only limits creativity, but sometimes reduces work efficiency.

Therefore, in Revit, there are more or less plug-ins, whose significance is to help you save operation steps and improve efficiency.

The learning of Revit can start from the secondary development of RevitAPI.

Revit provides rich APIs, that is, application program interfaces, so that you can do what you want through secondary development.

Let's talk about what we can do after mastering the secondary development of RevitAPI.

First, you can really control Revit.

Operations are adding, deleting, modifying and checking models. Incremental means creating a visual model or an invisible type or configuration. Deleting and modifying refers to deleting unnecessary elements in batches and modifying the spatial position, state and various attributes of elements in the model. Check is to get the information in the document.

Without secondary development, the operation and control of Revit can only be carried out by its own button tools, which is beyond the scope of function use and has no imagination and space. However, through secondary development, Revit will be completely controlled by you.

Secondly, repeated operations can be avoided.

Computers are good at repetitive operations, but we humans hate repetitive operations. This is why plug-ins with batch function are popular, such as batch changing family, batch arranging family, batch extracting information, batch adding information and so on. The bigger the project, the more batch operations, the more development is needed.

? Third, an automated process can be realized.

Revit secondary development can be carried out sequentially, conditionally, circularly and automatically, so the workflow can be determined and can be easily completed only by compiling and moving your fingers.

? Fourth, it can realize data interconnection and open up procedural barriers.

Although Revit has many formats to export, data loss and applicability have always been a problem. You want to import and export Excel, which is inconvenient; You want to export to other software for structural calculation, which is inconvenient; You want to interact with the database, which is inconvenient; You want to do VR display, which is inconvenient.

Through the secondary development of Revit, information channels can be opened, information islands can be eliminated, and all data interaction needs can be met.