With a desire to update my "about" page, I set out to kill two birds with one stone, a fresh new about page and learning 3d graphics in the browser. https://www.re-tug.com/about/ is built with three.js, a package built within Javascript to make 3d graphics. 

Above is my first functional C# revit add-in, making bending rebar at any angle an easy task. For those non-structural engineers, the smaller the piece of rebar, the smaller the allowable bend. Being able to quickly sketch rebar to scale with minimum bend radii is …

Making a revit addin has been a goal of mine for some time. Yesterday I finally succeeded, complete with ridiculous names, images and tasks completed.

The addin is simple and essentially useless, it assigns walls of a certain type to a workset (Github).

Learning C#

I have inherited an awesome project through the most unfortunate circumstances, the loss of a great engineer moving onto bigger and brighter pastures.

The project is going to be an ASCE 41 non-linear dynamic analysis and has had geotech engineers involved in picking out ground motion that represent similar ground motions that the …

The Tool

One feature that I like to use in ETABs is the section cut tool, but it is quite cumbersome to utilize in practice:

Notice how you have to enter (4) valid points to define a section cut... a time consuming process. I love to …