Write Revit Add-ins No Coding Experience Required

Adam Sheather of YTL Corporation created and presented a complete and in-depth Revit API introduction titled Learn to Write Add-ons No Coding Exp Required! for RTC, the Revit Technology Conference 2014, held in Australia, Europe and North America.

He describes it like this: This course is for expert users of Revit who wish to learn how to code. This will cut a lot of non essential information from standard and other coding classes to get users quickly up to speed writing basic add-ons and give people tools to discover and develop tools independently.

Adam very kindly provided all the class handouts and sample material in the Gytaco RevitAPI repository on GitHub.

For a first quick impression of the layout, here is the overall lesson plan:

• Lab 1 – Computing Essentials, Visual Studio and First Project
• Lab 2a – Revit API Pre-Starters, Setup and VSTA
• Lab 2b – Select Objects, get data, set data, export/import data
• Lab 3 – UI Setup, Project Templates, Views
• Lab 4 – Export/Rename, Place Families, Create Floors, Events

For a slightly deeper preview, here are direct links to local copies of his class handouts and two useful C# and Revit API cheat sheets:

• Talk 1
• Talk 2
• Talk 3
• C# cheat sheet
• Revit API cheat sheet

Please go to the GitHub Gytaco RevitAPI repository to download the originals, though, if you want to take a deeper look.

Many thanks to Adam for all his work creating and sharing this material!