We are currently being flooded with questions about a topic that has already been discussed repeatedly and in depth in the past, external access to the Revit API.Possibly, the cause is the growing interest in implementing web driven solutions to generate RFA and RVT files.It is in fact possible to implement a web server driving Revit in the to execute such tasks, as demonstrated by the old sample showing howto drive Revit through a WCF service and other examples listed in the topic group on Idling and external events for modeless access and driving Revit from outside Revit I/O and Forge Question Answer...
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