Dynamo is a great platform for developing custom tools in Revit. Dynamo’s visual interface makes it easy for non-programmers to access the power of the Revit API and develop tools to suit their needs. Coupled with its open-source nature, Dynamo has quickly become the tool of choice for automation and computational design in Revit. Yet […]
Cooking with Dynamo – Workshop Recording
A big thank you to all of you who attended last Thursday’s “Cooking with Dynamo” workshop. It was a good group with lots of great questions. In case you missed it, you can watch the recording below: During the workshop, I demonstrated the 7 essential Dynamo “recipes”. To help you quickly get started […]
12 Smart Ways to Save Time in Revit With Dynamo
My 8-year-old son sat on the floor and just stared at the box of Legos. He’d been that way for the past ten minutes. “What’s wrong?” I asked. “I really want to build something but I don’t know what to build”, he replied. I could sympathize. When I was a kid, I would often get […]
What Is Dynamo and 5 Reasons You Should be Using It
Using Revit is a lot like driving a car. You hop in the front seat, turn the key and off you go. Sure, you need to know what you’re doing and where you’re going. And you need to know the rules of the road, like how to stop, how to indicate when you’re turning (unless […]
Dynamo for Busy People
Want to join me in an experiment? I hear from a lot of people that they’d love to learn Dynamo but simply don’t have the time. Either they’re too busy to learn it on their own. Or their need to be billable overrides their desire to learn. Or they’re already working 50+ hours a […]
Easily Renumber Revit Sheets
I recently got an email from an ArchSmarter reader who was looking for help renumbering sheets in his project. He’s using a numerical sequence for his sheet numbers, like A101, A102, A103 on up. This approach works great until. . . . . .you realize you missed a sheet and need to add one to […]
Advanced Sorting and Grouping using Dynamo
I recently got an email from an ArchSmarter reader who needed help automating a tedious task. He’s a plumbing engineer and he needs to number his pipes sequentially in his projects. This isn’t a big deal if you only have to number a couple dozen pipes. But he regularly has to number hundreds of pipes. And he […]
How to Connect Revit to Anything the Smart Way
So you’re out to dinner at a new restaurant in town. You’re excited to be here and you’ve invited a couple of friends. You invited these particular two people to dinner because you have some important work to do and you need them to work together in order to get this thing done. Now, these […]
Which Revit Automation Method is Right for You?
If you’re like me, you strive to work smarter, not harder. One of the best ways to do this is to let your computer do the heavy lifting for you. Why do the same tedious operation over and over when your computer can do it in a fraction of the time? When I’m in the middle […]
Want to Learn Dynamo? Here’s How.
I learned to automate Revit the hard way. I was tired of wasting time doing tedious stuff like renaming views and creating sheets. I wanted Revit to work for me. Back then, the only way to automate Revit was to learn to program. So I poured through programming books and Internet forums. After hundreds of […]
