How to put all plugins together in the same tab (revit)

[Anonymous]

Hi. So, I've been using a lot of different plugins and as each developer usually has his own tab I end up having a lot of tabs in my Revit. I would like to know if there is any way to compress all plugins in just one tab (added a photo of my idea) I recently saw that it is possible to hide unwanted tabs, and that sounds kind of useful. The problem, in this case, would be that we would have to create keyboard shortcuts for each of the plugins functions we use frequently and then memorize it :/.

Any better ideas?

[jlpgy]

Hi, this might help:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2011/02/pimp-my-autocad-or-revit-ribbon.html 

This solution gives some idea about accessing Revit UI WPF visual tree in some very low level method. Safety is not guaranteed. 🙂

Nice coding day.

[PavelAnd]

Good afternoon @Anonymous . It seems to me that a simple user can’t do this, because creating a tab is written in the code of the add-in itself. Need add-in code, panel name, button name... Write your add-in to move, as described above.

Another option... To hide unnecessary add-ons, you can move the manifest file from the Revit folder. Then, when starting Revit, the add-in will not appear, and when you need it, you can move the manifest file back and the add-in will load into the open Revit. You can write a .bat file for this. But this is not such an interesting solution as the version of @jlpgy .

[Anonymous]

Thanks, @jlpgy  and @PavelAnd ! I believe I don't have enough programming skills to solve this on my own 😕 but I'll see what I can do about...