Launch Dynamo without opening revit

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Hello everyone!

I want to run a Dynamo script without opening a Revit file and wanted to know if this was possible?

Thanks

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Hi @alafineur in that case i would try this one here…Release v1.10.0-beta · bvn-architecture/RevitBatchProcessor · GitHub

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Thanks for your help! Do you think it is possible to automate this task?

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yes is what it does…but it actuelly open revit in background with windows task scheduler, run your graph, and close again…

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If you don’t need access to Revit api for files you can use an instance of Dynamo Sandbox via DynamoBuilds.com, or the Dynamo CLI to not even see Dynamo. Should run a few orders of magnitude faster as you won’t have to open Revit before opening Dynamo.

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Thank you, in the dynamo I want to run I have 2 nodes of the Package “Rhythm”, is this compatible?

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Depend on which nodes. The CLI from outside Revit wont’ have access to Revit, any data in a .rvt, or the Revit API. So if the Rhythm nodes don’t use a library which references Revit, you’re good. I’d start with a task that just saves a text document or something similar. Perhaps triggers a UI that says ‘hey it worked’ or something else along those lines.

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Here is the Dynamo I want to run, I want to automate the export of a Revit file in NWC, my dynamo works perfectly but now I would like to run it without needing to open revit or dynamo

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This requires opening Revit, either headless as is done by the tool linked above by @sovitek above, or in a way that you see Revit.

You cannot access Revit data without opening Revit.

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Once again, thank you for your answer!

So I will use BatchRVT, I don’t know if you know why but when I try to run the program I have an error message that appears…

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If you can live with open revit startpage, not a project, Birdtools multiplayer can do it as well and will be faster than BVN and have a timer build in as well or just use birdtool batch export models…but not dynamo

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ps probably it could work if you setup windows taskscheduler to open revit and have timer setup in multiplayer…havent tried just an idea :wink:

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Thanks for your answers! I used Birdtools and now I have the possibility to run my script automatically!

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