
In Revit, the RvtVa3c add-in external command can be launched from the Revit Add-Ins tab, which causes it to export your Revit model to a JSON file.įor more information on setting up Revit to discover and load the add-in, please refer toįor more details on programming Revit add-ins in general, please refer to the Revit API Getting Started material, especially the DevTV and My First Revit Plugin tutorials.
You can then either start up Revit.exe manually or via the Visual Studio debugger.
This will open the Revit installation and install the plugin.
Build and optionally debug into Revit.exe. If you wish to debug, set up the path to the Revit executable in the Debug tab, Start External Program change the path to your system installation, e.g., C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Revit Architecture 2017\Revit.exe. Add references to the Revit API assembly files RevitAPI.dll and RevitAPIUI.dll, located in your Revit installation directory. Open the solution file RvtVa3c.sln in Visual Studio to build it:. Download or clone the RvtVa3c GitHub repository. In order to generate the DLL, you download and compile the Visual Studio solution: It is installed in the standard manner, i.e., by copying two files to the standard Revit Add-Ins folder: RvtVa3c is a Revit add-in implementing an external application and an external command. A Revit custom exporter add-in generating JSON output for the vA3C three.js AEC viewer.