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Jay Merlan
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How I Develop Apps On My Phone While Sitting in Manila Traffic
Dev tools have officially gotten to the point where a mobile phone is now a legitimate place to ship code from. Not “read the code.” Not “approve a PR.” Actually implement a feature and have it live on your server two minutes later.
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The Struggle is Real: Migrating from Unifi to Content Catalog
It’s no secret that the landscape of Revit content management is shifting. Since Autodesk acquired Unifi in 2023, the roadmap has become clear: Unifi is close to being deprecated in favor of Autodesk Content Catalog. Sounds simple, right? Not quite. We all know where we are going, but getting your BIM content from Point A…
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We Want Digital Perfection, but We’re Building with Analog Hands
Let’s face it, we’re living in the future, right? We have self-driving cars (sort of), phones that can practically read our minds, and we’re sending rockets to Mars for fun. So why, oh why, are we still building things with paper plans and tape measures? Everyone in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) is buzzing about…
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How I Used AI To Recreate The Iconic Structure in King’s Cross Station With A Revit Macro
Here’s what happened when I challenged an AI to model the complex structure of King’s Cross Station in Revit. No Dynamo, just raw C# as a Revit macro.
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The Ephany Framework, Explained.
Ephany is a standardized framework for your asset data that you can own, extend, and build upon. Your organization can finally own your data and the source code to boot.
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Web-based Merchandise Planning: Introducing Capacity Planner by Triple Zero Labs
Capacity Planner is a conceptual design tool built for merchandising workflows. It seeks to help with site feasibility studies, macro planning, and everything in between. Starting with a building shell, users are able to generate a floor plan with department capacity and merchandise categories as the main focus.
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How I Used AI to Downgrade a Revit Family From 2024 to 2022
What if Revit families were backwards compatible? Could we use AI and a little C# coding to force Revit 2024 to talk to Revit 2022?
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Use Dynamo to delete all views in Revit (Updated for Dynamo v2.x)
We have all been there. You receive a model from a consultant or a partner firm, and it is absolutely weighed down by hundreds of working views, temporary sections, and unorganized elevations. Before you can link this model into your project or start your own work, you need to “clean up” the file to ensure…
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Is Dynamo Dead? Here’s How AI is Bringing Revit Macros (C#) Back To The Forefront.
With the emergence of AI as a coding partner, I’ve found myself leaning back into the Revit Macro Manager. The barrier to entry for text-based coding has nearly vanished, and the results are cleaner, faster, and more robust than anything I could “wire up” in Dynamo.
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Taming the Wild West of Asset Naming: How AI & The Ephany API Brought Order to Our Asset Catalog
Most organizations treat naming conventions as a manual chore, which is why their catalogs eventually become a mess of “2-Sided” vs “Two-Sided” inconsistencies. I decided to stop fighting that battle by hand and used AI to build a logic-based “wrangler” script, then used the Ephany API to push those standards across our entire catalog in…
