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Where has the time gone. It has now been nearly 3 months since my last post.

We have been super busy here at Kiwi Codes preparing for an exciting few months ahead of us. Just some of the things that you are going to see shortly include:

1. New Brand/Logos for Kiwi Codes Solutions.
2. New website.
3. Kiwi Codes are attending RTC Australia on the 24th May this year and have a booth to show of our Revit applications.
4. And most exciting news of all is we are getting very close to announcing a brand new App for Revit. Currently we have our new application out for testing with selected Beta customers.

Keep an eye out on this blog for news and videos that will be posted very soon.

Who works on New years Eave??

Unfortunately Me :(.

Due to a few customers reporting that after updating their Family Browser to the latest build, they had lost the text on the non selected tabs.  This was happening to just some computers that were using a slightly larger font size therefore the text would not display.

I have since build a new version that now fixes this issue by making the tabs slightly wider and that can be found in the downloads section.

Thank you for reporting this and have a fantastic New Year.

See you in 2012.

Merry Christmas

Well what a year it has been. We have had a huge amount of support from the Revit Community over the past year with Family Browser now starting to gain worldwide recognition. This looks to continue into 2012 and along with some new products that we are working on it looks as though next year is going to be a cracker for KiwiCodes.


From us at KiwiCodes we wish you a wonderful Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year.

New Update 2012.2.12.10 Posted

Sometimes it's the little things that count for people trialing Family Browser.  In this update we have taken the four main issues that our customers and testers have reported as being of concern to them.  They may seem small requests but we have knocked them off the wish list for this Christmas update.  They are:

1. Rotated Text on the tabs to read as per Revits vertical dims.
2. Fixed all the issues of Focus between Family Browser and the Revit drawing canvas.
3. Family Browser now does not write JPG images of the family thumbnails to the hard drive when not needed.  They are still written as per previous releases for custom thumbnail images.
4. Moved the Revit cancel command from mouse over Family to Family Browser click so that inserting a family from Family Browser now acts exactly like choosing a family and inserting from Revit itself.

The full downloads can be found from here or the patch to existing version FB 2012.2 here.

Enjoy and keep the comments and emails coming.

Cheers

Phillip

Tab Layouts

Over the last year we have received a few requests for more options on the layouts of tabs.

Currently the only option is to have the tabs arranged on the left or right hand side of Family Browser.  What are your thoughts about having the ability to have tabs on the top or bottom of the browser as shown below?  Would this be useful?  How would you expect it to handle multiple types in families?

I look forward to hearing you comments on this.

Phillip

Tabs with orientation Bottom

Enhanced Search Feature

Well it is that time of year again where we start to think about how we go about improving Family Browser for the next release.  Since the last release we have received allot of suggestions and enhancements that could be included.  The first one I would like to get more detailed feedback on is for an enhanced search function.

As you will be aware the existing search feature of Family Browser searches by Family Name and populates a search tab on Family Browser.  If you are unaware of this feature check out this video.

Now while this works really well and is very quick to find families by name we have had requests by a few that a more in depth search function would be use full at times.  My question for you is:

• What extra info would you like to search for?
• Would searching for family type names be of any use?
• What about some specific parameters and if so what ones would be use full?
• Would some sort of search filter be use full,  ie search by category, then by type and then by parameter?
• What about "and"  "or" search variables?

Along with your help we have the chance to create a rock star search function for Family Browser.

I look forward to your comments and suggestions.

Cheers

Phillip

Catch Up.

Hi All.

Well it has been a fair while since my last posting.  No we haven't fallen of the planet, but have been flat out Creating Awesome Revit API's for other customers.  We are now ready to begin thinking about our next release of Family Browser and also start working on a brand new Application for Revit that will be released in the first half of next year.

A big thank you goes out to fellow blogger, Dave Baldacchino who have recently blogged about Family Browser.  It is much appreciated.

Dave's Blog Here

Cheers

Phillip