pyRevit v4.8-beta

Updates

Tools:

• Pick elements is now configurable. Shift-Click and select the favorites
• Print tool naming format now ensures templates end in .pdf (#767: Failure to Print to PDF) (#887: Print Sheets Revit 2021)
• ReValue tool now supports Find/Replace (#944: PyRevit Revalue Find and Replace Function)
• Misc fixes:
  • #892: Family config export shows integers as "false"
  • #913: Config window of Match function is too small
  • #934: Fix paste orientation between 3d Views
  • #954: Make Pattern Bottom button off screen
  • #927: Sync Views bugfix, Copy State improvements
  • #918: feat: add title to file pickers
  • #897: Sync Views Not Working pyRevit v4.7.6
  • #894: "Select Similar in a view" tool - use quick filter, allow to select in whole doc
  • #866: Revit 2020 'Create Modifier Filters'
  • #888: add Revit 2020.2.1 (New Install) build number
  • #885: cannot add extensions (previous failed cli installation)

Framework Updates

• Removed dependency on .Net Core
• Upgraded .Net Framework to v4.8
• Switched to using the same version for cli (last version was 0.25 and now is 4.8 matching pyRevit itself)

Engines

• Now using the modern C# compiler Roslyn. pyRevit runtime now compiles itself on this new compiler, and all the pyRevit C# bundles can now use the C# v8 version of the language (previously the max version was v5). An example of a new language feature is the interpolated strings e.g. $"UserName={username}" or lambda methods e.g. void GetResponse() => 42;
• IronPython 2.7.10 has been added to the list of runtime engines
• CPython engines updated to 3.8.5 and 3.7.8
• CPython 3.6.* was removed since the embedded binaries are not provided by python.org anymore

Supported Revits

• Adding support for Revit 2021 and dropping 2016

Installer

• Installer not longer uses PowerShell scripts internally (#936: Installer fails if PowerShell script execution is restricted by Group Policy)

Script bundles

• Bundles now support a help file (#941: Automatic detection of help files)

Telemetry

• Telemetry does not fail validation on Revit 2021 build number anymore
• Fixed issue with missing ending forward slash on telemetry urls is Settings window

API

• Updated rjm module to 1.4
• Other misc updates