Clashing Ducts and Walls in #Revit with #DynamoBIM

Every now and then I get a message asking, “Can Dynamo do [insert problem here] in Revit?”
Generally, this is exciting! Because this means that people are opening their minds and thinking outside of the Revit box.
This question came up ragarding ductwork penetrating fire-rated walls. The indidividual wanted to create a 3D view for every clash of duct and fire-rated wall. Well, I have good news. Thanks to the awesome Dynamo community (steamnodes and clockwork) this is very doable!
The video below sums it up, I also include a link for the graph at the end. Note: This does not work for linked models yet. This is very possible and I will post an update in the future.



https://goo.gl/bpCYa8

Have fun!
-John

Pin/Unpin in #Revit with #DynamoBIM

I posted a node in Rhythm a few weeks ago without talking about it. Mostly because I am learning python and I am no bueno (no good) at introducing lists into the script.
After disecting some of Andreas’ clockwork nodes I am improving!
I give to you Element.SetPinnedStatus for Dynamo in Rhythm!

You can all look forward to more great stuff like this as I continue my adventures in Python!
Have fun!
-john

Rhythm – Group.UngroupElements

A question came up on the forums regarding ungrouping of elements.

http://dynamobim.org/forums/topic/ungroup-element/#post-35808

Luckily with a little Python research and great examples from Andreas Dieckman (clockwork) this is now possible with Rhythm.

 

This node is powerfula and dangerous, so make sure the groups you feed it are in fact the groups you want to ungroup.

 

Enjoy!

Rhythm - Update to 3D Room Tag Node

It was recently discovered that the 3D Room Tag node had a few bugs in it. This was after some internal testing and some comments on the following forum discussion.
http://dynamobim.org/forums/topic/a-family-with-3d-text-to-acquire-room-information/
I am happy to say that this has been fixed and is now much more stable. The primary difference is the node now places the 3D Room Tag where the room’s origin is. (Similar to tag all)




You can of course find this on Dynamo’s package manger, under the latest Rhythm update

Happy New Year!