Fully Agentic AI Development for pyRevit with Jonatan Jacobsson | pyRevitPodcast

Why It Matters

As firms scale BIM automation, switching from node-based tools to scriptable, deployable solutions like pyRevit improves consistency and maintainability across projects; emerging AI tools promise to speed development of those scripts, lowering the barrier for teams to adopt programmatic BIM workflows.

Summary

Jonatan Jacobsson, a construction management and Revit automation specialist, recounts his journey from web development to using Dynamo and ultimately adopting pyRevit and Python to solve deployment and reproducibility issues in BIM workflows. Working at a Swedish firm focused on openBIM, he used Dynamo for data wrangling and geometry tasks but found its deployment limits led him to embrace pyRevit for more robust scripting and project-wide tooling. Jacobsson describes how his programming background made the transition natural, and he highlights current interest in AI to accelerate creating Python-based nodes and coding workflows. The conversation underscores practical lessons about when to automate and the value of sharable, maintainable plugins over ad-hoc scripts.

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GUEST: Jonatan Jacobsson

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonatanjacobsson/

- GitHub: https://github.com/jonatanjacobsson/

- pyRevit Extension: https://github.com/byggstyrning/pyByggstyrning.extension

- Code from Demo Tool: https://github.com/byggstyrning/pyByggstyrning.extension/tree/master/pyBS.tab/Coordination.panel

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