Basics Help (if someone has a second)

So trying to get VERY basic stuff working after downloading Revit 2012 trail. After spending hours on the basic tutorials i'm still stuck so some pointers would be great.

I am stuck looking for a place to put a .addin file for anything I code. All of the paths listed dont exist on my machine. I cant find them through the browser or by searching. I cant find close approxiamations to try either. Windows 7 / Revit 2012.

I also notice that every screenshot of Revit includes an "Addins" tab that is not there for me.

Any help to get over this bump would be great. Or a link to an updated tutorial.


Part 2:
The final goal is extracting information from revit on request to display in a seperate desktop application. As far as I can tell this is not really what the API is designed for but it should be possible. Is there an easy or "correct" way to do something like this. (My best thought would be export and save the neccesarry information to a simple file format and then read it from there.)


Thanks for the time, any help is appreciated.

Hi,
Can you give some information as to which paths have you tried looking at and aren't available..Try looking for the below path to install the addin if your machine is Windows 7 :

C:\Users\All Users\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2012 (if you are tyring to load the addin for all users) or try checking for this path :C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2012
I did expreiecnce the same issue of not finding the Revit Addin's tab unless I tried adding my adding under this path.

Let me know if this works ..

And now I'm feeling stupid. Thanks for the reply, got me to try the command line and finally find the hidden folders I had been scouring through the file browser for. On to Hello World!!!

Glad that it helped..