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New release of RevitPythonShell for x64 and Revit 2011 only

I upgraded my development machine a couple of weeks ago to Windows 7 64-bit. Atthe same time I migrated all my Revit Addin projects to Autodesk Revit 2011.This includes RevitPythonShell. I finally got round to building a new installerusing the
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Jul 16 2010 12:51 AM
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New release of RevitPythonShell for x64 and Revit 2011 only

I upgraded my development machine a couple of weeks ago to Windows 7 64-bit. At the same time I migrated all my Revit Addin projects to Autodesk Revit 2011. This includes RevitPythonShell. I finally got round to building a new installer using the
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Jul 16 2010 12:49 AM
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New release of RevitPythonShell for x64 and Revit 2011 only

I upgraded my development machine a couple of weeks ago to Windows 7 64-bit. At the same time I migrated all my Revit Addin projects to Autodesk Revit 2011. This includes RevitPythonShell. I finally got round to building a new installer using the
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Jul 16 2010 12:44 AM
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New release of RevitPythonShell for x64 and Revit 2011 only

I upgraded my development machine a couple of weeks ago to Windows 7 64-bit. At the same time I migrated all my Revit Addin projects to Autodesk Revit 2011. This includes RevitPythonShell. I finally got round to building a new installer using the
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Jul 16 2010 12:42 AM
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My .vimrc

This is another post for my future self: At the time of writing, my .vimrc looks like this:" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------" call system vimrc"
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Jun 09 2010 01:13 PM
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Google Charts: AnnotatedTimeline

Note to future self: The Google Charts visualization "AnnotatedTimeline" displays inside a div element. As per documentation, you need to provide height and width of the div element. If you don't (or specify a size too small), the script goes into an
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May 12 2010 11:08 AM
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CakePHP and Umlauts (utf-8)

I spent the last couple of weeks writing PHP. Not my favorite language, but it does get the job done. I won't bitch about PHP here, since that would be snobbery.What eases the pain a lot is the CakePHP framework. Except, I couldn't get Umlauts to work.
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Apr 28 2010 12:46 PM
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Wiki syntax for UML diagrams

Yay! I have just implemented my very first Trac Hack: YumlPreprocessorMacro for integrating yuml.me diagrams into the trac wiki.I have come to depend on using Trac as a bug tracking and documentation tool. I really like using wikis for
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Apr 14 2010 07:19 PM
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Adding canned scripts to the Revit RibbonPanel

I feal really smug about myself today! I finally figured out how to addshortcuts to the canned python scripts defined in RevitPythonShell.xml to theRevit RibbonPanel. I'd like to share some of the fancy magic that went into r65.RevitPythonShell lets you
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Mar 23 2010 05:56 PM
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Using RevitPythonShell to dynamically load plugins for debugging

Ever since I read Jeremy Tammiks blog post Reload an Add-In to Debug, where hedescribes about John Morse's technique for dynamically loading plugins withouthaving to restart Revit, I have been itching to get this working inRevitPythonShell!Finally, with
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Mar 10 2010 08:23 PM
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Extracting music from Mac formatted iPod in Windows XP

I used these tools to extract the music from my iPod (Mac formatted) under windows:HFSExplorer (0.21)Mp3tag v2.45aHFSExplorer lets you extract data from an HFS file system hooked up to your PC. In this case my iPod. After loading the filesystem from a
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Feb 25 2010 08:31 PM
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How to create a 3D wireframe with X3D

All I wanted to do was display some lines in a 3D coordinate system to make sure everything was as it should be. That can't be hard, can it?Well, it seems it is hard. At least, it's hard to figure out how to do it, because there aren't that many tools
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Feb 25 2010 07:08 PM
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Where are all the posts I promised?

Why oh why have I not delivered on my promise to post neat stuff you can do with RevitPythonShell? Well, what exactly would you want to do with it? I use this tool to scratch an itch - automate a plugin I am writing. I mainly use the Interactive button
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Feb 05 2010 03:31 PM
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Name your GUIDs

Here is a little idea that came to me while waiting for my computer to become responsive again (don't ask):Wouldn't it be really cool, if there was a name generator for GUIDs? You could submit a GUID and claim a name. That way, people could talk about
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Jan 27 2010 09:44 PM
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Adding your plugin to the [ExternalApplications] section of Revit.ini

For the installer for RevitPythonShell, I need to programmatically add the plugin to the [ExternalApplications] section of Revit.ini. Instead of writing a one-off solution, I decided to create a little commandline tool that can be reused for my next
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Dec 23 2009 04:44 PM
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Introducing RevitPythonShell

RevitPythonShell is a little tool I have been using to make
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tags: revit python
Dec 18 2009 06:18 PM
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Using C# extension methods for Revit Element Parameters

One of the places using C# extension methods shines is writing getters and setters for element parameters in Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010. Parameters are user defined meta data bound to either an instance or a type in Revit. Accessing these is a bit
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tags: revit
Dec 09 2009 02:56 PM
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Using C# extension methods to extend plugin architectures

I've spent a lot of time recently writing a plugin for Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010. Extending Revit involves writing managed code that implements a special interface (Autodesk.Revit.IExternalApplication) that gets called by the host application when
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Dec 03 2009 12:49 PM
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Response to "Bug tracking isn't a network-effect business"

Ok, so my first post is going to be a bit of a fanboy post. I've been a keen reader of Joel Spolkys blog since the aticle series "Working on CityDesk". Its fun to read stuff written by a guy who actually knows what writing is all about: Entertaining your
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tags: response
Nov 10 2009 05:24 PM