Revit: Creating C# Plugins

Build your own Revit plugins with C# and the Revit API. Learn how to develop plugins for automating systems, analyzing geometry, extracting data, and more.

Introduction

• Getting started
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. Creating a Simple Plugin

• The Revit API
• Viewing the Revit API
• Setting up Visual Studio
• Adding the API
• The IExternalCommand
• Creating a command
• Accessing the application
• Selecting elements
• Registering add-ins
• Compiling the code
• Debugging

2. Working with Revit Elements

• Classifying elements
• Retrieving element information
• FilteredElementCollector
• Creating a collector
• Transactions
• Modifying elements
• Creating families
• Querying FilteredElementCollector
• Creating line-based elements
• Creating loop elements
• Get parameter
• Parameter values

3. Element Geometry or Editing Elements?

• Element locations
• Editing methods
• Revit geometry basics
• Traversing geometry
• Intersecting geometry
• Projecting rays

4. Automating Elements

• Views
• Filters
• Tagging elements
• Sheets
• Placing views

5. Advanced

• External applications
• Creating an IExternalApplication
• Customizing the user interface
• Adding icons
• DBApplication and events
• Registering the event

Conclusion

• Next steps