#AU2015 is upon us.

It's that time, AU is here! Once again I'll be able to attend the Computational BIM workshop! I'll post my schedule for each day soon too. If you see me, be sure to say hi! 

3D Room Tags with #DynamoBIM

This question came up on the DynamoBIM forums recently.
http://dynamobim.org/forums/topic/a-family-with-3d-text-to-acquire-room-information/
Thankfully our friend Dynamo is here to help!
First we collect the rooms and figure out the center of them. Then we place a generic model as a 3d room tag. Lastly, we assign the values from the rooms.
See the video below of this in action.




*Edit- Received some question as to where the room tag family is.
It's in the package folder. Simply copy the link below into windows explorer and you will see the family .
C:\Users\%CURRENTUSER\AppData\Roaming\Dynamo\0.9\packages\Rhythm\extra

Framing Interior Elevations in #Revit with #DynamoBIM

Ever since I learned about Dynamo at last years Autodesk University I have been blown away by the possibilities. Since AU2014 I have even launched Rhythm which is a collection of custom nodes. I have been amazed by the feedback from everyone and the support I have received as well. Currently Rhythm sits as 8th most downloaded!
One of the nodes I have wanted to create since I learned Dynamo is one to frame interior elevations. Thanks to the Dynamo community this is now possible!
In the video below I show four interior elevations on a sheet with the crop region off. The node then toggles the crop on and overrides the crop to a line weight of your choosing!

This was made possible with the help of Danny on the Dynamo forums. http://dynamobim.com/forums/topic/override-projection-lines-color/

This node is now available in Rhythm

#DynamoBIM 0.9.0 == Great!

It’s been a while since I have posted an update but this doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy playing with Dynamo!

Since my last update Dynamo 0.9.0 has been released and it is awesome!

• Search is better

• Node Library is better organized

• Preview in Revit blows my mind!

• Rhythm is updated for 0.9.0 now!
  (and includes icons after the Dynamo team remedies multiple package with icon issue) https://github.com/DynamoDS/Dynamo/issues/5688
  

For a more in depth review on Dynamo 0.9.0 refer to Sean Burke’s post here.

http://www.seandburke.com/blog/2015/11/10/dynamo-nearing-its-big-day/

I also added a renumber grids by model curve to Rhythm, check out the video below.

Select #Revit Model Elements by Curve with #DynamoBIM

Have you ever wanted to renumber grids in Revit with Dynamo or do another sequential action just to find out that the elements were created “out of sequence”.

Take a look at the grids below. They were created in the order of the number, which means the element ids are also in this order.

If you know how Dynamo thinks, it will sort these by Element ID. Which is normally a good thing.

After following a tutorial from William Wong at Case I developed the next custom selection node in Rhythm.

  Notice how the element IDs are in a different order? They are in the order of the model line I drew through them!

This is very useful for renumber processes on various categories in Revit. Currently it is tested on walls, grids, rooms, and doors. But it should work on most any model element. 

 

Check out the video below for some more of it in action and get it on Rhythm.