AU2016 SD20868

Autodesk University 2016 has come to a close for us now and it was very enlightening and entertaining. I enjoyed catching up with old friends and making a few new ones as well.

I taught a class entitled "SD20868 - Revit Usage and Model Data Reporting Simplified with C#"

It was a full solution style overview class showing how to get verb data out of Revit and into a graphical dashboard showing various Model and User metrics.

The purpose was to show and share how this can be done using ASP.NET coupled with a few other modern(ish) web development techniques. I want to thank the folks that provide the Gentelella web template and hope everyone enjoyed the class.

CASE Apps Updates

Our BETA Subscription tools have launched!  We also took this opportunity to reorganize how we are loading these items into the Revit ribbon. All of the CASE tools still get installed from the CASE Add-In Manager and install onto a custom ribbon tab named "Case Design, inc."

This new ribbon design also provides automatic updates to the latest version when it gets posted to our servers (only for tools that you already have installed)!

There are only 4 subscription tools in the system at the moment, but several others are on the way within the next few weeks. We have also added a FAQ page that answers some of the most frequent support questions that we get about these tools.

If you have not received your free 60 day trial of the subscription tools, email me and I'll get an invite sent over to you.

CASE Add-Ins Manager is Here

Some of you may be more excited than others about this announcement... we at CASE are moving away from individual installers for our free tools. Instead we are offering a single desktop utility (no admin privileges required to install) that you can use to install and discover new tools that we offer.

http://apps.case-inc.com/content/add-manager

You may also notice a grayed out button referring to some kind of subscription... stay tuned for announcement relating to this as we will begin offering our high-powered tools to the general public via monthly or annual subscription...

Oh, and we have the August free tool ready to install using this new Add-In Manager, take a look at what Nathan Miller developed (this one was not my doing):
http://apps.case-inc.com/content/import-opennurbs-3dm-file-data

The Status of Revit 101

I haven't forgotten about you guys!

I will be posting more on this topic soon, but I have to be careful with what I write about mainly due to the fact that I am now under contract to write a book on customizing Autodesk Revit 2013 with .NET. As I complete chapters for the book, I will elaborate more on some of the topics here so that the book and these entries will compliment each other resulting in 37% more awesome.

The book should drop before September sometime if everything goes according to plan... Look for some Twitter hosted trivia to win free copies after it get's published.

Autodesk AEC DevCamp

Well, I can't think of a better topic for my first post here, I just returned from Autodesk DevCamp in Boston. It was interesting discussing all of the new features of the Revit API with the guys at Autodesk that are the actual people developing the API's. It was also interesting meeting Michael Priestman who mans the Navisworks API development for Autodesk.

I think I've got all the technical information I need to turn my Revit scripting app into reality. Stay tuned for some posts where I'll share how I get it done.