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Dear Mustafa, There are some workarounds which enable you to determine which basic walls belong to a given stacked wall. They are described in the following blog post that performs a similar analysis for curtain walls: http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2010/05/curtain-wall-geometry.html Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear Tecy, You tell me. I'm not a user! Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear James, That makes absolute sense, and sounds totally brilliant. Congratulations on solving that! Thank you very much for sharing and describing such an effective 'hicks-hack' :-) Sorry, couldn't resist, hope you don't mind! Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear Aleksey, To query the type properties instead of the instance ones, retrieve the parameter from the type element instead of the instance element. This is demonstrated in numerous places, e.g. by the BipChecker: http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2013/01/built-in-parameter-enumeration-duplicates-and-bipchecker-update.html Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear Sandeep, My one and only suggestion is my perpetual mantra: explore it yourself using RevitLookup and let me know what you find out. Thank you! Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear Skootamota, Thank you, good question. Yes, indeed, how would you? No idea. Can you tell me? Thank you! Cheers, Jeremy.

Hi Rudolf, Yes, that is the intention and motivation for the entire blog post :-) That is exactly what RvtSamples does. Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear Travis, Thank you for the appreciation. No, not at all. I have one single Mac partition. If you look carefully at the screen snapshot at the bottom, you can see that a large chunk of it is occupied by Parallels. I am running Windows inside of a Parallels VM. Three Windows, in fact: my old XP machine that I migrated into here and have been using for a number of years already, and Windows 7 and 8 for running Revit 14 in. It won't run on XP :-) Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear David, Regarding access to parameters, please use RevitLookup and find out for yourself. Certainly, you can use the Dynamic Model Update DMU in an add-in to update the value of a parameter based on changes in another one. Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear Mayur, You must have at least one type defined to add parameters, and that's it. There is no reason why the number should grow beyond that. Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear Maja, Yes, sure, it is. Take a look at the fourth bullet item here: http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2013/03/revit-2014-api-and-room-plan-view-boundary-polygon-loops.html Look at the presentation, recording and sample code provided there. Look at the overview of the 'ViewSchedule changes' in the What's New in the Revit 2014 overview: http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2013/04/whats-new-in-the-revit-2014-api.html Look at the new ScheduleAutomaticFormatter, ScheduleCreation and ScheduleToHTML SDK samples. Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear Anthony, Have you taken a look at the Revit 2014 copy and paste API, and especially the new DuplicateViews SDK sample? Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear David, Thank you for your query, both via ADN and this comment. It looks as if you are calling the Revit API directly from your modeless dialog that is running in another thread. As you should know, actually, that was never supported. Now, in Revit 2014, an exception is raised when you make such an attempt. You are lucky that it worked so far without corrupting anything. The solution is described in depth on The Building Coder: simply google for "modeless site:thebuildingcoder.typepad.com". In short, make use of the Idling event, or implement an external event, which is a simplified wrapper around that, and base you application on the ModelessForm_ExternalEvent and ModelessForm_IdlingEvent SDK samples. I hope this helps. Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear Phillip, Thank you for the appreciation! An honour, coming from you :-) Thank you also for the additional notes. If you would like to share your RTCAUS material to a wider audience, I will happily take a look and see whether it can be published here as well. Good luck with your presentations! Cheers, Jeremy.

Dear Chengrui Zhao, Use the ItemFactoryBase.NewGroup method to create a group. There is no way to load one directly. In Revit 2014 you can use the new copy and paste API to bring one in from another document, though. Cheers, Jeremy.