PropertyWizard 1-8-2 includes an extra inverse tan function, ‘atan2’: atan2(<y-value>, <x-value>) The new function allows you to calculate the angle of a line from the line’s Y and X components (note the order of the arguments!) and it will return angle values from -π to +π radians (-180 to +180 degrees). This is more versatile […]

There are three new text case functions in PropertyWizard version 1-8-2. They allow you to change text between lower and upper case, and to capitalise the words of a piece of text. toLowercase(<text>) and toUppercase(<text>) These two functions convert text to lowercase and to uppercase respectively. They are useful when you want to enforce a

There are three new text extraction functions in PropertyWizard version 1-8-2. They give you more options for extracting sub-strings from a string of text, alongside the existing substr(<text>, <index>, <count>) function. substr(<text>, <index>) This new function returns the end of the <text>, starting from character number <index>. The first character index is zero. This operates

PropertyWizard version 1-8-2 is now live on the Autodesk App Store. Download from here – with free trial Help file here This version adds several new functions, mostly in response to requests from users. If there’s a function you’d like to see in PropertyWizard, please let me know!

This is a quick post describing the Id and UniqueId properties in Revit, and showing how to access them using PropertyWizard. Every Revit element has an Id property and also a UniqueId property, highlighted here in RevitLookup:

When you have a Number value but need an Area, how do you do the conversion? If you try to push the Number into an Area parameter, you will get a Type Mismatch error, saying ‘Target property is an Area parameter, but your formula returns a Double’:

PropertyWizard 1-7-5 is now live on the Autodesk App Store. Download from here – with free trial Help file here This is the first digitally signed version on general release, which is a significant step forward for us. This version also has a bugfix for working with large models hosted on BIM 360 or Autodesk

Revit’s schedules are very powerful, but there are some parameters that you cannot schedule. For example, you cannot schedule the ‘Top is Attached’ or ‘Base is Attached’ parameters on walls:

PropertyWizard treats Revit’s Yes/No parameters as True/False boolean values. So it is easy to use Yes/No parameter values in formulas, and it’s easy to set Yes/No parameters from formulas. Using Yes/No parameter values You can use a Yes/No parameter value anywhere that is expecting a True/False data value. So you can use them: As the

Expressions are the building blocks of PropertyWizard formulas. They are like phrases in a language. It’s useful to understand the different kinds of expressions in PropertyWizard, so you can put them together in different ways to write better formulas. There are four main kinds of expression in PropertyWizard: Literal expressions Identifier expressions Operator expressions Function