ricaun-io/RevitAddin.DA.Tester

Design Automation for Revit ignores `PackageContents.xml` configuration.

ricaun opened this issue · 6 comments

ricaun commented

By default Design Automation for Revit selects the first ComponentEntry in the PackageContents.xml ignoring the version defined in the RuntimeRequirements.

In the example below, the version 2021 of the .addin is loaded by default even if is selected the engine for Revit 2025.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ApplicationPackage SchemaVersion="1.0" AutodeskProduct="Revit" Name="RevitAddin.DA.Tester" AppVersion="1.3.0" ProductType="Application" ProductCode="7c324916-9f8d-43b0-b226-da67d2504393">
  <Components Description="Revit 2021">
    <RuntimeRequirements OS="Win64" Platform="Revit" SeriesMin="R2021" SeriesMax="R2021" />
    <ComponentEntry AppName="RevitAddin.DA.Tester" ModuleName=".\Contents\RevitAddin.DA.Tester\1.3.0-beta.1\2021\RevitAddin.DA.Tester.addin" />
  </Components>
  <Components Description="Revit 2025">
    <RuntimeRequirements OS="Win64" Platform="Revit" SeriesMin="R2025" SeriesMax="R2025" />
    <ComponentEntry AppName="RevitAddin.DA.Tester" ModuleName=".\Contents\RevitAddin.DA.Tester\1.3.0-beta.1\2025\RevitAddin.DA.Tester.addin" />
  </Components>
</ApplicationPackage>

A reusable solution would be to first search for the right version of the engine in the bundle. And if the version does not exist in the PackageContents.xml, select the first one like in the current version of the DA4R Revit 2025 (RVTDA 04-04-2024).

Video: https://youtu.be/SmcY-1_sNDM

APS Blog

Here is a blog reference with the DA4R limitation with PackageContents.xml.

The Design Automation engines do not support having dlls and other resources for multiple versions in the same app bundle - you cannot rely on the PackageContents.xml file to specify which files should be used by which engine version.

ricaun commented

Output file for DA4Revit 2025.

{
  "VersionName": "Autodesk Revit 2025",
  "VersionBuild": "25.0.2.419",
  "TimeStart": "2024-04-14T23:32:14.8699528Z",
  "Text": "2025",
  "Reference": "21.0.0.0",
  "FrameworkName": ".NETFramework,Version=v4.8"
}

The DLL loaded is for Revit 2021, as shown in the Reference and FrameworkName.

ricaun commented

Revit engine:

{
    "productVersion": "25.0",
    "deprecationDate": "2028-03-29",
    "description": "Revit 2025 (RVTDA 04-04-2024).",
    "version": 117,
    "id": "Autodesk.Revit+2025"
}

Issues:

  • Does not work with bundle with multiple Revit version
  • Console is not working and does not show in the report.
ricaun commented

Looks like the Console issue was fixed, the version still 117.

Warning: echo (62184 bytes) exceeds console output size of 23000, skipping reading still happens.
Sometimes the Console works sometime does not, I guess depend of the size of the Console.WriteLine.

ricaun commented

The ticket was logged as #RVTDA-2079.

ricaun commented

Video about the Revit.DesignApplication project.

VideoIma1

ricaun commented

Revit engine:

{
  "deprecationDate": "2028-03-29",
  "productVersion": "25.0",
  "description": "Revit 2025 (RVTDA 09-23-2024).",
  "version": 118,
  "id": "Autodesk.Revit+2025"
}

Maybe the log was fixed.