Rhino inside Revit is live on GitHub

It’s been a month since I wrote about the work-in-progress McNeel’s technology called “Rhino Inside”:  Will Rhino 7 run inside Revit? And now it is live on GitHub!

The Rhino Inside technology allows Rhino and Grasshopper to be embedded within other products, including Revit and AutoCAD. This repository contains all the sample developer code for loading Rhino inside other 64-bit Windows applications.

Note that you’ll need to download Rhino WIP version to be able to play with Inside technology.

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Speckle.works now supports Dynamo

A couple of months ago I wrote about the tragic death of Flux.io – the service that allowed us to seamlessly exchange BIM data through the cloud.

One of the possible substitutes for Flux is the Speckle.works – an open source (MIT) data communication platform. Until recently it had only Grasshopper integration, and yesterday they published the very first alpha version of the Dynamo package.

For those of you missing the Flux, go ahead and download the package called “Speckle for Dynamo” from dynamopackages.com

Please note that this is still an alpha version, and there may be some issues. And in case you encounter any problems, don’t hesitate to report them @ GitHub or Speckle.Works.

Zhukoven.com dynamo package update

An updated version of my Dynamo nodes package (rev.2017.5.19) is available at Dynamopackages.com. It’s now equipped with Railing.CountBalusters custom node, which is based on the “Railing.BalusterCount” node from Rhythm package. I had to rebuild the original node to get rid of the ‘false positives’ in resulting number of balusters. Below you can see the difference between these two nodes, and the numbers they show as an output:

I’ve tested the tweaked node on different railing types: horizontal, sloped, and curved, so it should work correctly.

Please note that Railing.CountBalusters can handle only one railing instance at a time, so do not try to feed a list of multiple elements into it.

I’m going to write a dedicated post to describe my node, and why did I have to rebuild it. In the meantime, you can download an updated package here: Zhukoven.com_(Rev.2017.5.19)  or via default Package Manager in Dynamo.

(UPDATE): here’s the link to the dedicated post about Revit railings: Count railing balusters in Revit with Dynamo

Create Revit workset by linked file with Dynamo (updated)

This little Dynamo graph may become handy If you use individual Revit worksets for each of the linked Revit files. While operating with linked files via worksets becomes super comfortable (you can even unload links before opening your Revit model), it becomes a pain to manually create separate worksets for each model.

This is where Dynamo will come in handy:

As you can see, the logic behing this graph is simple:

1. Scan your current document for linked Revit files, and retrieve their names. This is done using Archi-lab.net package by Konrad K Sobon, so you’ll need to install it (if you haven’t already done this) before running the script;
2. Then we cut off all the unnecessary symbols from the link names using the node “String.Split” and add our desired prefix via “String.Insert”;
3. The last one node “Workset.ByName” is also listed in Archi-lab package and basically does the rest – creates worksets by the input list of names. Although I don’t check if some of the worksets already exist, it won’t give you errors or warnings.

Zhukoven.com dynamo package is live

To start with, I’d like to say that I’m not willing to build an all-in-one dynamo package, collecting everyone’s custom nodes. My intention is totally different: I’d like to share my ideas that cover some white spots in Revit and Dynamo. I mean that if I managed to find solution to one particular problem, that has not been solved yet on dynamo forums or somewhere else, why should I keep it in secret?

(drumrolls): Introducing the very first Dynamo package!

Well, while I’ve already published the first version – rev.2017.5.16 (and here’s the link to the dedicated packages page), it is still work in progress, and of course there are some unfinished nodes that I plan to include in the future releases. So stay tuned and enjoy! And don’t forget to report issues and your ideas via the contact form on dynamo packages page.