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Navigating the Revit API

Navigating the Revit API

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Navigating the Revit API

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- [Instructor] Earlier, we created a new family instance that you might be wondering how I knew where that method lived. Well we know it came from the Revit API but this contains a huge amount of methods. So let's have a look at a couple different ways that we can browse through the Revit API, and that's through the CHM file and using Visual Studio. The CHM file or Compiled HTML Help file is a documentation file that can be opened and viewed. You might be familiar with this window. This is the standard Revit installer. In the Install Tools and Utilities section, there's an item called Revit Software Development Kit. This includes instructions and examples of working with the Revit API, including the Revit CHM file. If you haven't installed this, go ahead and select it and click Install. It will prompt you for an install location. I've used the default location. The default location is on the C drive under the folder Revit SDK and then the version of Revit you're using. In here you'll…

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