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?
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
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
Back when I used AutoCAD, one of my favorite commands was, “Snap Mid-Between Two Points”. What I used it for all the time, I can’t tell you. But, I know when I started learning Revit (2012), I quickly found that it was not available! Well,… Read More »Snap Mid-Between Two Points in Revit!
During BILT I presented a course on signage in Revit and it was really fun. After the event, someone approached me and asked about how I would go about adding visibility to images in Revit. Luckily, this was something I had to do in the… Read More »How to add visibility parameters to images in Revit
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!
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.
I recently shared an image of my desk setup on twitter in response to a tweet from Deity microphones. Shortly after this post, a few folks commented on ultrawide monitors and recorded tutorials in usable resolutions. As you may know, I record a lot of… Read More »How to Record Revit Tutorials on an Ultrawide Monitor
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!
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