All posts tagged automation

topo tools for dynamo

This past week; or maybe two weeks ago; I had some time on my hands and started playing around with Heron for Grasshopper. For those of you familiar with Heron […]

mantis shrimp – tutorial series…

I have been getting a lot of questions about Mantis Shrimp in the past, and it seems like a lot of people have been having trouble using it, so here […]

ripples component for dynamo

In this post i will go back in time a little bit and talk about Dynamo 0.6.3. This is a script that I have wrote when I was asked by […]

sheets from excel with dynamo

In this post I will present a quick workflow for getting new sheets into Revit using an Excel spreadsheet. You will ask me: Why in the world would you do […]

door set handing

In this post i will demonstrate how to automatically determine if door is left or right handed. One of my fellow Bloggers asked me this morning about determining door set […]

checking if schedules are on sheets with dynamo

In this post i will describe a new custom node for querying all schedules that are not placed on sheets. It will output two lists of elements (ViewSchedules), one which […]

drawing list management with dynamo

This is not your typical workflow for managing a drawing list, but due to some complicated/overlapping schedule and need to possibly issue drawings with the same number (yet part of […]

create views and place on sheets with dynamo

First off I am demonstrating how to create new Views in a Revit project using Dynamo. That’s pretty straight forward. I am using all regular nodes. If I am using […]

element tagging with dynamo

Today I was asked to help create some roof plans for a glass canopy system and then tag each panel with its unique Mark value. Well, this sounds easy enough […]