
Denver VA Medical Center Revit Plug-in
The Denver VA Medical Center project is a very large medical campus designed by the SOM Chicago office. The VA had very strict program requirements for the project that needed to be tracked and compared to the actual design models….

Sichuan Aviation Plaza Enclosure
The enclosure of the Sichuan Aviation Plaza project consisted of a complex pleated form with many vertical folds over the surface. Initially a colleague of mine and I created the enclosure manually using surfaces imported from Rhino. These surfaces where…

Sichuan Aviation Plaza Vertical Mullion Family
The massing for the Sichuan Aviation Plaza project consisted many of vertical pleats, of which the fold angle varied over the height of the building. This changing fold angle meant that the profiles of the mullions between pleats also needed…

Revit QA Tool
Revit QA is a Revit add-in that I develop which can be used to setup automated quality checks of a Revit model. These checks can validate a model against company and project standards.

Signage Room Assignment Macro
The graphics department of SOM San Francisco was responsible for adding signage to the Denver VA Medical Center project Revit model. Many of these signs were rooms signs, and therefore needed to be associated with rooms in the model. However,…

Extract Families Macro
As part of an effort to develop a library of Revit content in my office, I created this simple macro that extracts all the families from a Revit project into a library of RFA files. It was use to quickly…

Revit Batch Family Upgrader
This utility automates the process of updating a large library of Revit family files to the 2011 format. The video below shows it being used on a handful of files, but it also works with hundreds of family files as…

Revit Content Library
Revit Content Library is a set of tools I created using the Revit API for creating shared libraries of Revit content. Content catalogs created by the tool can be stored in a standard file system, a single zip file, or an instance…

Informa Master Planning in Revit
Informa is a suite of tools which I created for using Revit as a master planning tool. A diagram of the overall workflow is shown below. A Revit model is creating using conceptual masses and mass floors representing many buildings….