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Hardware Acceleration (HA) is not enabled during journal playback by default.
To enable HA during playback no matter the setting, add the following line to
the journal after Set Jrn = CrsJournalScript

Jrn.Directive "DebugMode" , "GfxUseDx9AccelerationOnPlay" , 1

REVIT 2010

One of the tricks in my AU Class discussed how to display a Windows Form in REVIT .. the following code describes adding a form and passing to it the Active REVIT document as a variable so you have access to the doc from the form:

In the NEWLY Placed form :

Public Class Form1
    Public myDoc As ThisDocument = Nothing

Call it like so from your Macro:

        Dim myForm As New Form1
        myForm.myDoc = Me
        myForm.ShowDialog()

 Like others around the blog-o-sphere I am sharing my Autodesk University 2009 schedule.

Items in RED are the classes I will be presenting and co/presenting.

Somehow this snuck past me - there has been an update to the documentation in REVIT 2010, this is from TheBuildingCoder's blog :

Updated Revit 2010 SDK

An updated version of the Revit 2010 SDK is available. The changes mostly affect the documentation.

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\”)

You can also download the Revit SDK here:

*Revit 2010 SDK (updated April 27, 2009) (exe - 82969Kb)

These are just a few of the cool little utilities I've run across thus far online, ..if there's any I forogt to add to the list leave a comment or drop me a line: joseguia at cadkicks.com

Also - I will be updating this with a handful of apps I have been workign that help make REVIT a little easier to manage.

ENJOY !

Local File Creator Tool

By: Paul Kirill with HC Yu and Associates, Consulting Engineers
Download : Local File Creator Tool
Found at : http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=97511

For anyone interested, I built a little local file creation tool in vb.net and put it on our local user group website here. It works in both 32 and 64bit environments.

I allows you to configure your default local folder and some standard "central file renaming" (ie. replace 'central' with 'local', add your initials, the date). It will also allow you to automatically create local subfolders. It also keeps track of the central files you access in a list. There's a help file included to walk you through the initial configuration and use.

Basically it replaces "close local file, navigate to the central file, right click copy, navigate to local folder, delete existing local, right click paste, rename, open, get back to work" with "close local file, open the app, pick central file from a list, click the button to Create Local, get back to work". Just a little something to make life easier.

Please forgive the "branding" - it was the compromise I made to be allowed to make it public...

REVIT Utilitities
By: David VanSlyke with McQuay International
Download: Revit Utilities
Found at: http://www.biggestbrains.com/revit/

  - The .NET Framework 2.0 or later is required.
Current version:  2.2.0.0, see release history below.

The utilities support the following functionality:

• Comparing Shared Parameters files
• Merging Shared Parameters files
• Deleting backup files (optionally recursively)
• Copying CSV files created for Type Catalog usage for easy change testing
• Reporting the versions of Revit used to create family files (optionally recursively)

Keynote Manager
By: Steve Faust with Emc2 Group Architects Planners, PC
Download: KEYNOTE Manager
Found at: http://www.emc2architects.com/revit_tools.html

This application was developed to more easily manage text files that Revit uses for its keynoting system. It is a simple user interface for editing these text files; it has no direct connection with Revit. It was created by Stephen Faust and is provided by Emc2 Group Architects Planners, PC as freeware under the terms and conditions below. These terms and conditions will be displayed the first time the program starts on any computer, and must be agreed to or the program will not start.

Where is my command in RAC2010 update
By: Nicholas Iyadurai with REVITIZE
Download: KEYNOTE Manager  or Use ONLINE at :LINK
Found at: http://revitize.blogspot.com/2009/04/where-is-my-command-in-rac2010-update.html

I posted a blog about an incomplete ‘where is my command in RAC 2010?” tool we had created. We have completed the tool as far as we could. Now it works for Design Bar, Tool Bars and Menu commands.

You can download the updated zip file here.

You can use the “Where is my command in RAC 2010?” tool online here.