A Gathering of revit files

Symon Kipkemei — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 11:32:14 +0000

Problem

I wanted to update my Revit template based on all the Revit projects I have done previously in the past.

The challenge I encountered was that the Revit files were scattered in several folders of sub folders of subfolders. Retrieving them would be a lot harder and a tedious work.

Besides that, Some Revit files are back-up files that are currently consuming unnecessary storage space. Filtering through to get the latest native Revit files would be a lot harder.

Below is a script that I developed that would assist gather all Revit files in a project directory

Scripting process

Import pathlib module

import pathlib

Establish the project directory. In this case a project directory is the root folder for all your architectural projects

# path to my desktop
start_path = "/mnt/d/New folder"
start_path_obj = pathlib.Path(start_path)

Create a new directory where you would like to store your revit files

# create new folder
new_path = pathlib.Path(f"{start_path}/Revit-bastards")
new_path.mkdir(exist_ok=True )

Defining a function that would establish if a file is a revit file, if it is a revit file will be moved to a new directory/ folder specified above

def check_move_files(path,new_path) -> None:
    """check if file is  png it then moves to a separate folder

    Args:
        path (Path): path of the current folder/file/directory

    """

    if path.suffix == ".rvt" or path.suffix == ".txt":
        # create a new path for the level_1 
       new_filepath = new_path.joinpath(path.name)

       #move files
       path.replace(new_filepath)

We can start scanning across for the revit files,incase we encounter a folder, we will open the folder and check for the revit files level 1....level 2....level 3

We can scan for files until the script is done.

# starting level
for level_1 in start_path_obj.iterdir():
    if level_1.is_file():
        check_move_files(level_1,new_path)

    # level 1
    else:
        level_1_path = start_path_obj.joinpath(level_1)
        for level_2 in level_1_path.iterdir():
            if level_2.is_file():
                check_move_files(level_2,new_path)
            #level 2
            else:
                level_2_path = level_1_path.joinpath(level_2)
                for level_3 in level_2_path.iterdir():
                    if level_2.is_file():
                        check_move_files(level_3,new_path)

To check the full script, checkout :
https://github.com/symonkipkemei/mover

if you encounter any challenges, feel free to leave an issue:
https://github.com/symonkipkemei/mover/issues

Thank you!!

command line game

Symon Kipkemei — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 07:59:54 +0000

Dive into a gameplay like never before.

summary

The game is about akin to dungeons and dragons. There are two doors; the left door and the right door. One of the rooms/caves is empty. If you search further/look around you will encounter a sword.

The other room contains a dragon .If you choose to fight the dragon without a sword , chances of defeat are high.

Give it a try

Would you like to give it a try?
https://github.com/symonkipkemei/command-line-game

Pseudocode breakdown

Here is a sum of pseudocodes of how the game play works. I will go into the details later on.

get the player name
display message
present them with two doors
if they choose the left door, they'll see an empty room, they can choose to look around, If they do so, they will find a sword. They can choose to take it or leave it.
if they choose the right door, they'll encounter a dragon, they have the choice to fight it. If they have the sword from the other room, then they will be able to defeat it and win the game.
In both options they have an option to return to the previous room.