Running Advance Steel in AutoCAD's Core Console, One Level Below /product ADVSSep 17, 2026·58 min read·48
Reading the Rotation, Origin and Mirror State of a Group, One Level Below the Revit APISep 16, 2026·14 min read·42
Registering a New Plant 3D Support Script Without Restarting, One Level Below the Content CacheYou add a custom support script to Plant 3D, a .py in the content library, and it isn't there. Run PLANTREGISTERCUSTOMSCRIPTS, still not there. The only thing that makes it show up is closing Plant 3DSep 19, 2026·15 min read·82
Renaming Shared Parameters in Revit Projects Without Breaking Tags, Schedules or View FiltersSep 15, 2026·21 min read·20
Converting PolyFaceMesh to Solid3d Without CONVTOSOLID: Building the ACIS SAT in MemoryAutodesk states its own CONVTOSOLID never works with polyface meshes. Commercial plugins charge for the fix. This is how to build a native Solid3d by assembling the ACIS SAT as text and letting AutoCASep 14, 2026·10 min read·7
Updating Shared Parameter Descriptions in Revit Projects Without the CloudParameterUtils.DownloadParameter is documented as a cloud operation. It is not. Register your own schema server and it works entirely offline — in project documents, and, as it turns out, in family doSep 14, 2026·23 min read·17
Writing Shared Parameter Descriptions Across Nested Revit Families in BulkThe procedure this post used to describe traverses the family tree leaf-to-root and reports success. It does not do the work: parameters that live only in nested families never get their description, Sep 14, 2026·45 min read·29
Renaming Shared Parameters in Revit Families: Two Procedures, Two OutcomesAutodesk's help says shared parameters cannot be renamed. That is true of the direct operations and false as a general statement. There are two routes: migrate to a new GUID, or rename while keeping tSep 14, 2026·16 min read·33
Reading a Family Parameter Description (Tooltip) via the Revit APIA workaround for the long-standing FamilyManager.GetDescription gap, using the undocumented ParameterUtils.GetParameterSchema and the Forge parameter schema. Environment Revit 2025 · RevitAPI.dll 25Sep 14, 2026·9 min read·49
