AutoHotKey

Automate beyond the API … Some parts of the Revit functionality are not yet accessible through the API, even though are repetitive tasks that are trivial to perform manually and a lot of work could be saved by automating them. One tool that many have found useful for this task and have published a number of working solutions for is AutoHotScript ↗. Here is an AUGI discussion ↗ presenting a number of them, such as how to:

• Define F2 to open the View Range.
• Define F3 do perform Purge Unused.
• Define F5 to do a Save As to a filename that’s been copied to the Windows clipboard first, and sets some additional options.
• Define F7 to set a solid’s material to a new parameter called “Material”.
• Define Win + 1 to Filter.
• Define Win + 2 to Finish Sketch.
• Define Win + 3 to Quit Sketch.
• Define Win + 1-4 to set various column heights.
• Automatically answer the message “This Central File has been copied”.
• Remove the username from the INI file.