How To: Install and use pyRevit (Revit API access with Python)

pyRevit is a collection of Python scripts, written by Ehsan Iran Nejad, that access Revits API. It is an open and transparent approach to accessing Revit's API.

Thank you Eshan for your willingness to shared and help others out. It must have taken months to create all these scripts.

Last year at some point I had a problem with a line style in a project. Eshan helped me solve it with the use of RevitPythonShell (RPS). It was s simple thing, get rid of the offending line style that kept on duplicating itself. The only way to get rid of it was through the Revit API (that I knew of). If I had to C# it, I would have found it a lot harder to succeed, but with RPS and Ehsans' help it was simple, painless and a bit of fun!

Thats when I started to seriously think about getting into coding for work.

Links to information mentioned in the video are below.

pyRevit home:
https://github.com/eirannejad/pyRevit

Ehsan Iran Nejad
https://github.com/eirannejad/

RevitPythonShell Home:
https://github.com/architecture-building-systems/revitpythonshell

Jeremy Tammik
http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2016/04/the-pyrevit-ironpython-script-library.htm #2

Icons used home:
https://icons8.com/

ThubanPDX - helped Eshan test the scripts
https://github.com/ThubanPDX


https://github.com/daren-thomas
https://github.com/eirannejad
https://github.com/jeremytammik