What's New in Autodesk Revit Architecture/Structure/MEP?
Autodesk has significantly extended the customization capabilities of Revit Architecture/Structure /MEP from previous releases.
The API focus of the new releases is continuing to expand the ability to create, modify and query elements in the Revit Building Information Model.
The most significant API improvements are:
• New API registration mechanism via externally located XML manifest file
• Ability to control visibility and availability of commands based on context
• New element iteration framework with significant performance benefits and many
new built-in filters
• New transaction framework allowing fine-tuned control over transactions & changes
• Manual regeneration mode allows to minimize regeneration(improving performance
for applications)
• VSTA now using the regular API
• Object selection and pick point
• Element level event handling and element modification called Dynamic Model Update
• Idling Event that allows an application to continue its computation while Revit
is on idle state.
• Manifest based command registration mechanism
• Analysis Visualization framework that allows the third party application to
display the result of analysis in colored surfaces
• Revit style dialog window called Task Dialog
• Suppress and filter Revit errors
• MEP conduit and cable tray
• Split button, radiogroup, combo box, text box in Ribbon panel. and much more!
Programming Tools
Focused on integrating analysis and visualization applications with the Revit Building Information Model, the Revit .NET API allows you to program with any .NET compliant language including VB.NET, C#, and managed C++. The Software Development Toolkit (SDK) provides extensive .NET code samples and documentation to help you get started developing with the Revit API for Autodesk Revit Architecture/MEP/Structure.
The Revit API is built into every copy of Revit and enables you to:
• Access all elements in the building information model
• Query element properties
• Change element properties
• Perform additions of elements – with the types of elements that can be
programmatically added expanding with each new Revit release
Managed assemblies to work with Revit API (i.e., RevitAPI.dll and RevitAPIUI.dll) are present in every Revit installation under \Program.
Learn more about Revit's .NET API through Revit's API documents and samples found in Revit API SDK, which will help you get started developing applications using the Revit Architecture/MEP/Structure API. The SDK is included in every Revit product.
There are two ways to install the Revit SDK :
• From the main page of the Revit installer, click “Install Tools and Utilities”
and choose “Revit Software Development Kit”.
• Alternatively, you can also find the SDK in the extraction folder, under:
Note: the location of SDK has been changed to “\support\SDK” in Revit 2010. (In previous versions, it is under “\Utilities\Common\Software Development Kit\”)
