You may already know this, but, Revit 2024 is out and it has quite a few nifty features. Check out the video below for the ones I am most excited about. Also, check out the other video for a Dynamo 2.17 review, which is now… Read More »What’s new in Revit 2024, the API and Dynamo?
Overview If you are on Twitter or social media in general, you have probably heard of/seen a tool called ChatGPT. It is an AI system that allows for conversational dialogue between you (human) and the AI (🤖). People have used it to generate all sorts… Read More »Using AI to Delete All Walls in a Revit Model
Recently, Revit 2023.1 was released, and shortly after, 2023.1.1 was released! In addition to all the new Revit features discussed here, there are quite a few improvements, enhancements, and new features for Dynamo! In this post, we will look at a few of my favorite… Read More »What’s new in Dynamo for Revit 2023.1.1
If you have followed this blog for any amount of time, you are probably familiar with my passion around sharing “my Dynamo journey”. The summary is, I opened Dynamo in 2013, it threw all sorts of errors at me and I closed it, (thinking, “I… Read More »My Python Journey
While preparing for a Dynamo presentation, I typically spend a lot of time diving into Dynamo’s source code, release notes, and blog posts. For this year, there have been quite a few changes. This includes visual changes, bug fixes, and regressions. One of the most… Read More »Can’t Open a Dynamo Graph? Here’s one reason why.
Have you upgraded your Dynamo graphs to Revit 2023 and they look like this? Thankfully we have a few options to fix this. Option #1 comes to us from the Dynamo forums. Jacob was friendly enough to create a batch resizer graph that will fix… Read More »How to Fix Overlapping Nodes in Dynamo for Revit 2023
Revit 2023 has been out for a few months now, and I gotta say, I have grown to like the new UI of Dynamo quite a bit. Yes, there are a few things you have to adapt to (node size changes) but once you get… Read More »Parameter Issues in Dynamo for Revit 2023
Dynamo player has gotten better and better over the years. This year (with the Revit 2023 release), is probably the most improvement it has seen in a while! However, one thing that has been in Dynamo player for quite a while is the ability to… Read More »Better Dynamo Player Outputs with String Formatting
Dynamo 2.15 Core came out last Thursday, and there are quite a few new features! Considering that I normally put out a video each Thursday, I figured it would be fun to go live and check it out instead. If you missed it, the good… Read More »Dynamo 2.15 First Impression
Recently, I have been working on quite a few Generative Design workflows. The most recent is a camera placement graph that optimizes for orientation. That is viewable in this post on the Dynamo blog here, Informing A/V Layout with Generative Design. While building that graph,… Read More »The Most Underrated Feature in Dynamo – Run Preview
This question comes up fairly often, especially if you are new to Dynamo. True story, this was actually one of my own first questions on the Dynamo forum as I was setting the arrowhead type for text notes in Revit. While working with instance and… Read More »Working with Revit Type and Instance Parameters in Dynamo
neat. but in all seriousness, I am pretty excited about the new look/feel of Dynamo. Check out how it is in the video below!
Have you ever wondered which method of creating a Dynamo graph is faster? Is it out of the box (OOTB), Python, or ZeroTouch? Well, this came up recently on a RevitKid Livestream with Marcello, so I thought it would be cool to test. Check out the… Read More »Dynamo Node Race – OOTB vs Python vs ZeroTouch
I realized that Monocle’s features are scattered between a few videos, tweets, and posts. So I figured it was time for a properly updated “monocle overview”. If you are a monocle user check out the video below to learn all the features! Also, as a… Read More »monocle – full feature overview!
This one is kind of fun and comes up pretty often. Essentially we are running “Clash detection in Revit” to figure out how close things are to one another. Check out the video below.
If you use Dynamo player, you have more than likely seen the “Run Completed with Errors” warning in the UI. Sometimes this is helpful, but more often than not there are a few warnings that can be ignored. If you have a graph that has… Read More »How to Suppress Run Completed with Errors in Dynamo Player
Recently I shared this GIF on Twitter regarding string manipulation nodes in Dynamo. This made me realize I have not really broadcasted the nodes available in Core versions of Dynamo in Rhythm. They all deal with string manipulation and they are pretty neato. Check out… Read More »String Manipulation in Dynamo with Rhythm – aka StringyStrings
Here is a question for Dynamo that comes up time and time again. The question often is: How do I modify XX amount of family files opened in the background with [insert package name here] ? – Dynamo User Unfortunately, the general reply is: Sorry,… Read More »Family Document Nodes and Batching Workflows for Dynamo!
Dynamo 2.12 is out now with Revit 2022.1 and it comes with all sorts of cool features. One of them is, serialized properties in your Dynamo graph! Check out this video below for an overview:
As you may or may not know, Dynamo is bundled with Revit nowadays. This has been the case since Revit 2020 as illustrated on this chart, Dynamo Primer – The Revit Connection This is great because deploying Dynamo is far easier than it used to… Read More »Dynamo 2.12- Now Included with Revit 2022.1!
Sightline analysis is something that comes up now and then. And doing it in Revit is not the most straightforward thing (all the time). Considering this topic comes up fairly often, I went ahead and made a full tutorial on how to achieve this with… Read More »How to Calculate Sight Lines in Revit with Dynamo
aka Dynamo Package Best Practices As you all may know, I have published a few Dynamo packages. Over this time, I have learned a few things that have helped me keep most of my sanity while managing these packages. Recently, my friends at Sigma AEC… Read More »Keeping Your Sanity as a Dynamo Package Creator
Something that has been on my to-do list for a very long time is adding zero touch nodes to Rhythm. Why? Because drop downs are awesome, that’s why! 🙂 I present to you, my very first ZeroTouch Node! This node collects all of the space… Read More »My First ZeroTouch Node