Revit Api - Addin Development

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I need an Add-in that can perform the following tasks;

1) If there is a mechanical equipment in "Room(i)", and the "width of the equipment" is greater than the "width of the door of room(i)";

the equipment should be tagged with a notification(alert sign). When I move the mouse icon on the notification tag, a dialogue box should show the following message "equipment is wider than the door".

Do you think it is possible? If not what is the thing that is not possible? 

Thank you in advance for your time helping me out!

regards,

Barbaros.

[Anonymous]

What you want to achieve is absolutely possible with exception of hovering over a tag and having a dialog box pop up. You can tag it with a tag, that tag can indicate what the message is, you could create a filter to color the equipment a certain color in the view, a schedule can be created to show this error condition. All kinds of things come to mind.

Your best bet is to let the tool run, collect all the errors, add them to error parameters on the equipment and either list them in a dialog that you provide (could be modeless that allows users to navigate to the equipment in some way (see building coder loose connector browser for some ideas: http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2010/07/modeless-loose-connectors.html) or just simply lists the errors and suggests that they create a schedule view (tool could create the schedule view too) so that they can review the errors.

Sounds like a fun project, good luck with it!