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BIM on an Etch a Sketch

Jose GuiaJanitor extraordinaire

http://rcd.typepad.com

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Tying All of Your Autodesk® Revit® Add-ins into a Pretty Little RibbonJose GuiaELD Engineering, IncPrincipal

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Creating a Company standard – REVIT Ribbon

Autodesk Revit software is a robust application with a feature-rich API. There are currently hundreds of add-ins available for all of the verticals of Autodesk Revit. As a result, it becomes a challenge to deploy a standardized set of add-ins to all of your users across the organization.

Using the API, we will show how you can use an add-in to help deploy, administer, and maintain one set of add-ins that can be applied or deployed to all your Revit stations across your organization.

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Learning Objectives

At the end of this class, you will be able to: Understand the addin mechanism REVIT uses and customize it Create a central repository for your REVIT addins Easily deploy to multiple users Maintain future updates

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The Standard Ribbon

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Installing

Download the zip file from Class page on AU or BimCadTech.com Unblock the zip file by right clicking the file -> Properties Extract to C:\ProgramData\Standard_Addins Install for ALL_USERs or Current User

ALL-C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2013 SINGLE-C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\201

File : Standard_Revit.addin should be copied over

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XML - extensible markup language

Text file is organized and structured data in a parent/child relationship

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Customizing the Standard Ribbon

Modifying the EMAIL & Website Link

Changing Logo

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Adding an APP to the ribbon Create a new folder in ADDINS Subfolder using vendorid Create a new vendor.XML file using vendorid from original file Update vendor.xml file using information from the addins original file

Key items: Command ID (or GUID) Assembly FullClassName

Copy over any and all support files .. Dll’s etc Finally - Update C:\ProgramData\Standard_Addins\

Standard_Addins.xmlAdd VendorID, CommandID, and enable

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