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buildz: April 2014
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Practical notes for making impractical things. Dynamo 0.6.3 Release and 0.7.0 Alpha. It's been a while since the Dynamo team did a new official release. And there is also a new website and home base! And visit frequently, as Dynamo is evolving rapidly. Some noteworthy aspects, but please check the installer ReadMe for a more full rundown. Dynamo Sandbox: Explore Dynamo without running Revit or Vasari (see your Start Menu). Add name to reference plane node. Explode Node (Solids to Faces, Faces to Edges).
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buildz: Happy Halloween VI
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Practical notes for making impractical things. But I'm getting ahead of myself. 8220;Bad” in this case is regarded as high praise for an uncanny scariness, a serious and terrifying aspect. This year's winner for Baddest comes in with Neil86's punk rock classic. It ain't slick, it ain't pretty, but it sure looks mean and I wouldn't want it in my room after the lights went out. Like the Ramones or Dead Boys, this nasty little beast is the equivalent of 3 chord manifestos like Sonic Reducer. In total there ...
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buildz: June 2014
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Practical notes for making impractical things. I love me a Parametric Bridge. I have a crap-ton of other stuff to do, and it's sunny outside, but I know that you, dear reader, really really need a slightly impractical bridge to get you into the weekend. So here is my triumphant (and somewhat muttering) return to screencasting: setting out geometry for a fancy pedestrian bridge, from scratch, in Dynamo. Download the .dyn file from here. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Revit Kid, The.
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buildz: 6th Annual Parametric Pumpkin Carving
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Practical notes for making impractical things. 6th Annual Parametric Pumpkin Carving. Four months later . . .). Sometimes the bottom falls out . . . the buildz-mobile catches a flat, the water heater explodes, some joker hides a bunch of fresh bananas in your cape just before you unleash the flying monkeys on disloyal minions . . . what have you. And so, to kickstart the old beast back into production, we happily announce the 6th Annual Parametric Pumpkin Carving! Along with receiving bragging rights, th...
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buildz: Random Numbers to Family Parameters
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Practical notes for making impractical things. Random Numbers to Family Parameters. There are simple ways of looking at random numbers, and then there are awesome ways at looking at random numbers. We shall explore both (and write them to family parameters in Revit). Download sample files here. December 22, 2014 at 4:48 PM. Long time admirer of your work, and fellow architect checking in. Greetings. Ill give it a go myself, ill just have to learn Dynamo first :-). Happy holidays, by the way :-). Architec...
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buildz: Happy Halloween V
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Practical notes for making impractical things. Ritchie Jackson, in solidarity with the Boston Red Sox, submitted the proper interpretation of a pumpkin carving. I'm under slept, so it took me a little while to figure that one out.). But on to the BIMkins! A lovely batch again this year, with segmented orange harvest season parametric goodness. This years award for the pumpkin that shows all that is harmonious and ordered, hack free and quantifiable in a parametric pumpkin goes to Alfredo Medina. But Mann...
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buildz: Get Mass Floor Data
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Practical notes for making impractical things. Get Mass Floor Data. Revit Massing studies Dynamo = Love. There is an interesting quirk in extracting data from Revit Mass Floors with Dynamo (probably any Revit API tool). Levels that are assigned to masses that don't hit the floor come up as blank data (not zero, not null), so there is a little cleaning up you need to do. Datasets can be downloaded from here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). An Index of Parametric Methods. View my complete profile.
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buildz: December 2014
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Practical notes for making impractical things. Rhino to Revit with Rhynamo and Dynamo. A few years ago that has been pretty effective for engaging in that process. Today I want to show a more evolved way of passing information from the .3dm file format to .rvt using a great Dynamo package called Rhynamo, developed by Nate Miller. And the folks at Case. Links to this post. Random Numbers to Family Parameters. Download sample files here. Links to this post. Get Mass Floor Data. Links to this post. Digital ...
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buildz: October 2014
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Practical notes for making impractical things. Time is running out! Pumpkin deadline is looming, Oct 28 is nigh! We've had a pretty good track record over the 1/2 decade of pumpkins . . . the form never fails to yield up new variations on the theme. Getting a little nostagic and looking back at Year One, with finalists using Revit, Rhino/Grasshopper, and Inventor, submitted by the Greats: David Light, William Lopez Campo, and Rob Cohee. Links to this post. 3 best things I saw this weekend:. Sometimes the...
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