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Develop A Custom Revit Toolbar

a mini-course with Erik Frits of LearnRevitAPI

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Course info:

🏫 Course Name: Develop a Custom Revit Toolbar

👨🏼Instructor: Erik Frits

📅 Release Date: Now Available!

🕖 Duration: 1h48

 

What is This about?

This course goes through all steps to create your first Revit custom toolbar.

⚙️ Complete Dev Setup: Install and customize all tools you need to get started.

👩🏻‍💻 Understand Revit API: Get key concepts about the Revit API (Application Programming Interface).

🐍 Python: Learn why Python is the easiest language to get started.

🥧 pyRevit: use pyRevit's power to quickly generate your toolbar.

🏢  Interact with Revit: Learn key commands to interact with Revit elements.

 

What is included in the course?

🎥 Videos: 1h48 of edited and highly polished videos.

📖 eBook PDF: an efficient, condensed 45-page PDF summarizing the course.

📔 Notion Web Resources: access all codes, snippets, and downloadable resources.

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Who is the Instructor?

Erik Frits loves the Revit API.

Erik worked for 5+ years as a BIM Specialist and Revit API Developer at RLP Rudiger + Partner in Vienna, Austria.

Since 2021, Erik creates learning content about the Revit API both on YouTube and on his website, LearnRevitAPI. Erik Has helped thousands of people to get started with Revit API using python to create custom Add-ins.

He is also the creator of the popular Revit add-in EF-Tools.

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This course is part of the BIM Pure membership, which includes a vast collection of expert-driven Revit/BIM courses and downloadable content.

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Complete Curriculum

Here are all the videos and lessons included in the course:

Intro
Welcome

🕒 1:13

Erik explains what this course is about, and what you'll get out of it.

Lesson 01
What is Revit API

🕒 2:36

Understand what is the Revit API, and why you need it for your custom toolbar.

Lesson 02
How Much Python? 🔒

🕒 5:57

All you need to know about the "Python" language that will be used in this course.

Lesson 03
Setup Dev Environment🔒

🕒 8:55

Learn the key tools, Revit plugins and setup you need to get started.

Lesson 04
Create pyRevit Extension 🔒

🕒 9:04

At the end of this lesson, your Revit toolbar will be set up, with the help of pyRevit.

Lesson 05
Steal Like An Artist🔒

🕒 5:42

Get inspiration from other tools included in pyRevit and extensions.

Lesson 06
Revit API Docs 🔒

🕒 13:22

The API docs contain all Revit commands and tools you'll be needing for your scripts.

Lesson 07
Selection 🔒

🕒 9:16

Write a command that lets user select a specific category of elements.

Lesson 08
Read Properties🔒

🕒 9:53

Learn how to acquire properties from selected elements.

Lesson 09
Parameters🔒

🕒 13:07

Learn techniques to modify the values of both built-in and shared parameters.

Lesson 10
Transactions🔒

🕒 4:47

When using the Python language, you need to complete "transactions" in your code.

Lesson 11
Filtered Element Collector🔒

🕒 10:48

Learn the best way to collect and filter elements in a Revit model.

Lesson 12
Final Tool - Sum Apartments🔒

🕒 12:40

Finalize your first Revit custom tool: calculate totals of room area values.

Outro
Next Steps🔒

🕒 0:47

Congrats on your first Revit custom tool! Here are the next steps you should take.

eBook
Download eBook PDF 🔒

📖 38 Pages

Get a summary of the course in a cute little eBook.

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