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johnpierson / Relay

Relay allows for you to add Dynamo graphs to your Revit ribbon.
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Revit External Tool Failure #5

Closed gnye4598 closed 3 years ago

gnye4598 commented 3 years ago

Hi, I am brand new to Relay and am excited to try out the tool I think it will be extremely valuable for my firm. Upon downloading to my local drive folder I am receiving this popup saying that Revit cannot run the external application. Hope you can help, thanks.

Greg

2021-05-19_17-22-13

johnpierson commented 3 years ago

Right-click on the DLL (after unzipping) and select "unblock".

How to unblock a DLL is demonstrated here: https://github.com/radumg/DynaWeb#still-cant-see-the-package-in-dynamo-

gnye4598 commented 3 years ago

That did the job thank you!

johnpierson commented 3 years ago

Of course! Glad to help out. Have fun with the tool! 🙌

gnye4598 commented 3 years ago

@johnpierson I'm noticing that since Relay must be located in our local C Drive folder, if others around the office are using the same folder, any time that I make changes or additions to the Relay Script folder it obviously only makes updates to my local folder. Is there a way Relay folders can be synced together for example if the folder can be located in a local network that everyone has access to?

johnpierson commented 3 years ago

Yeah unfortunately that is all we include in this tool at this time. This tool was meant more as a proof and free/open source tool for the community and we aren't really going to be adding any features like that to this version.

There might be a way to modify the .addin manifest to point at a network location (relocate your whole relay folder). But that can get odd too.

My first choice would be to sync those .dyns locally somehow.

johnpierson commented 3 years ago

If I were still at a firm, I would really probably consider, https://www.orkestra.online/ because it does all of the management in the cloud for you. But I know that it is paid and sometimes that is a hard sell.

gnye4598 commented 3 years ago

Good to know, I'll do some searching around and see if I can relay anything to you..no pun intended, sure seems to be an awesome tool though, makes using Dynamo for those unfamiliar so much less scary

johnpierson commented 3 years ago

Absolutely! Apologies for the minimal features right now. We were working on similar tools for other folks and though, "What the heck, we should make this part open source for people".

Maybe eventually we (Parallax) will have a (paid) scope that lets us add new features to this tool too. 🙂

gnye4598 commented 3 years ago

Best of luck, excited about its potential!