Case Apps for 2015/2016 are now GNU licensed (free)

[Duncan Lithgow]

Fantastic news for fans of CASE-APPS, they are now under an OpenSource license (GNU licensed to be specific) and freely available. For this to stay alive developers will need to get involved in the project. Thanks to Luke Johnson (http://whatrevitwants.blogspot.dk/2016/04/big-news-case-apps-release-code-as-open.html) for this news.

You can read CASE's statement (https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/wework-open-sources-case-apps?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=2016-04-26___case-apps) or just download (https://github.com/WeConnect/case-apps/releases) and install the apps.

It's a fantastic suite of tools so try it out!

[david_peterson]

So are these run as a Macro or run thru Dynamo?
They look like some super cool tools and I think I would find them to be very useful.
Just wondering if you've got an additional comments you'd like to add on them.
Thanks in advance.

[Duncan Lithgow]

They predate Dynamo so I guess they run as macros. But I haven't used them since, I think, Revit 2014 when they disappeared. Case has reorganised the way they work and released them. My concern is that they have said they will not curate the project, so I'm worried that if it doesn't get a group of developers within a year or two it will become so obsolete that it dies. I hope that at the very least some people will take individual told and keep them relevant. By using the GNU license they have assured that the tools cannot be commercialised, and neither can derivatives. This has great advantages for people being able to learn from the code. Maybe a Revit user group somewhere will adopt the project and play a developer to maintain the code.