Congratulations on getting this ready for distribution – very exciting to see it released. I have just installed it on 2019 to trial it.
On the Ghostscript requirements, can you please provide guidance on which licence is required, commercial or open source?
https://artifex.com/licensing – “We recommend that all commercial entities that wish to distribute Ghostscript or MuPDF, or make them available to SaaS or ASP customers, enter into the Artifex Commercial License agreement.”
I am not distributing Ghostscript, and I would guess that you are also not distributing it.
When I attach an excel file, how do I make it show up in a view? I see it attached but cannot find it in any views. The PDF attach works great, have been in need of that for a while.
With the current version of this tool, only PDF files can be converted to images and imported into drafting views. All other file formats can be attached to the Revit file and then viewed in their native viewers but pushing the View button in the Attach It dialog.
If you’d like to test out a new version with image support for Excel files, please email me at boostyourbim@gmail.com
Yes, that is needed for the tool to license properly. If your IT policy or something else prevents you from doing that, I can arrange to provide you with a special build.
I would be looking to embed datasheets into the model. It would be great to be able to assign the datasheet for the equipment as a parameter. So if someone selects the family in the model, one of the parameters is the link to the embeded file. Currently we do this with links to external folders, however it would be much better to be able to embed the file instead of just linking to it.
Great idea – this would need to be a dedicated API command that would open the embedded file for a selected Revit element. I would also expect that you would want to embed the datasheet on a family type, not on the individual instances. If you are interested in having this tool developed for you, let’s talk more at https://boostyourbim.wordpress.com/contact/
Correct me if I’m wrong. Currently, I link cut sheets of plumbing fixtures to my job folder using a URL parameter that I created. Works fine for anyone on our network, but useless if not. Would this embed the pdf into the family so anyone could open it?
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Which Revit Versions is this compatible with?
2017, 2018, 2019. If you need something older, let me know
Congratulations on getting this ready for distribution – very exciting to see it released. I have just installed it on 2019 to trial it.
On the Ghostscript requirements, can you please provide guidance on which licence is required, commercial or open source?
https://artifex.com/licensing – “We recommend that all commercial entities that wish to distribute Ghostscript or MuPDF, or make them available to SaaS or ASP customers, enter into the Artifex Commercial License agreement.”
I am not distributing Ghostscript, and I would guess that you are also not distributing it.
Much appreciated. I wasn’t quite sure how to approach that one as it’s a little out of my experience.
When I attach an excel file, how do I make it show up in a view? I see it attached but cannot find it in any views. The PDF attach works great, have been in need of that for a while.
With the current version of this tool, only PDF files can be converted to images and imported into drafting views. All other file formats can be attached to the Revit file and then viewed in their native viewers but pushing the View button in the Attach It dialog.
If you’d like to test out a new version with image support for Excel files, please email me at boostyourbim@gmail.com
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Hi
I got the message :
“Please log in Autodesk A360 before running this command”.??
Yes, that is needed for the tool to license properly. If your IT policy or something else prevents you from doing that, I can arrange to provide you with a special build.
thank you Harry for your quick reply
Hi, Is it possible to add a parameter to an element to link to an embed file?
It is probably possible, but I am not sure I completely understand. Could you explain it a bit more?
I would be looking to embed datasheets into the model. It would be great to be able to assign the datasheet for the equipment as a parameter. So if someone selects the family in the model, one of the parameters is the link to the embeded file. Currently we do this with links to external folders, however it would be much better to be able to embed the file instead of just linking to it.
Great idea – this would need to be a dedicated API command that would open the embedded file for a selected Revit element. I would also expect that you would want to embed the datasheet on a family type, not on the individual instances. If you are interested in having this tool developed for you, let’s talk more at https://boostyourbim.wordpress.com/contact/
Correct me if I’m wrong. Currently, I link cut sheets of plumbing fixtures to my job folder using a URL parameter that I created. Works fine for anyone on our network, but useless if not. Would this embed the pdf into the family so anyone could open it?
Anyone with the plug-in installed would be able to open the attached PDF.
Or you can use this tool to import the PDFs as images into a drafting view.