Revit API Training Material

The Revit 2012 API training material that we use for our ADN trainings is now available online to the general public from the Revit Developer Center ↗. Here is a direct link ↗ to it, with no guarantee that it will remain valid in future.

It includes three subfolders:

• Labs
• Presentation
• Sample Drawing

These are the Powerpoint presentations used for the training:

• 0_Revit_Programming_Training_Class.pptx – Overview
• 1_Revit_API_Intro.pptx – Basics
• 2_Revit_UI_API.pptx – User Interface and Events
• 3_Revit_Family_API.pptx – Family API

The labs parallel the three main presentations:

• 1_Revit_API_Intro – Basics
• 2_Revit_UI_API – User Interface and Events
• 3_Revit_Family_API – Family API

Each of the three labs are provided in both C# and VB, and each also includes a set of documentation, exercise instructions, source code and Visual Studio solutions in the following subfolders:

• DocsCS
• DocsVB
• SourceCS
• SourceVB

The labs in the basic 1_Revit_API_Intro cover the Revit API fundamentals:

• Revit add-ins: external command and application, attributes, add-in manifest and object model
• Representation of Revit elements
• Element iteration, filtering and queries
• Element modification
• Model creation

These topics are split up into the following exercises:

• Lab1 – “Hello World”
• Lab2 – DB element
• Lab3 – element filtering
• Lab4 – element modification
• Lab5 – model creation
• Lab6 – extensible storage
• Lab7 – shared parameters

The topics covered by 2_Revit_UI_API include:

• Ribbon
• User Selection
• Task Dialogue
• Events
• Dynamic Model Update

Finally, 3_Revit_Family_API follows the same structure as we already presented when discussing the Revit Family API and the family creation API labs.