Autodesk 256B1-05A761-1301 - AutoCAD Revit Structure Suite 2010, User Manual

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1 Click Manage tab
➤
Macros panel
➤
Macro Manager to open the Macros Manager.
2 Create modules based on application-level or document-level design. See Creating Modules on
page 1426.
3 Define macros for the module with your implementation code using the Revit VSTA IDE. See
Creating Macros on page 1427.
4 Build the module and its macros. See Building Macros in the Revit VSTA IDE on page 1432.
5 Run the macros in the Macro Manager to observe the results. See Running Macros in the Macro
Manager on page 1433.
Creating Modules
To create macros, perform the following steps.
NOTE If the application or current document already contains modules, macros must be enabled in the Macro
Security settings. See Macro Security on page 1434.
1 Click Manage tab
➤
Macros panel
➤
Macro Manager to open the Macros Manager.
2 Select the Application tab (for application-level macros) or a Project tab (for document-level
macros).
3 In the Create section of the Macro Manager dialog, click Module.
The Create a New Module dialog opens.
4 Enter the following information:
■ Enter a name in the Module name field.
■ Select either C# or VB.NET in the Language field.
■ Optionally, add a brief description of the module in the Description field.
Creating an Application-level module in
C#
5 Click OK.
The new module is created and listed in the Macros Manager. One or more macros may now
be added.
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