Dynamo for Revit - Baby Steps for the Non-Genius

Jay Polding Hany Iwamura

BIM Consultant, SolidCAD Solutions Director of Digital Practice, KPMB Architects
@jaypolding @hany_iwamura

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 Class summary

 Geniuses welcome!

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 Class summary

 Geniuses welcome!
 Baby steps

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 Class summary

 Geniuses welcome!
 Baby steps
 4 simple and practical Dynamo examples

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 Class summary

 Geniuses welcome!
 Baby steps
 4 simple and practical Dynamo examples
 7 practical Dynamo example files

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 Class summary

 Geniuses welcome!
 Baby steps
 4 simple and practical Dynamo examples
 7 practical Dynamo example files
 Confidence needed to run with Dynamo

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 Jay Polding Professional Bio

 Registered Designer in Ontario, Canada

 Applications Specialist for SolidCAD Solutions, Autodesk Reseller in
Toronto, Canada
 Help design professionals stay profitable and happy using BIM
 Over 500 days onsite BIM consulting on over 100 000 m2 of projects
 Trained over 2500 professionals in BIM i.e. Revit, Navisworks
 Author of 6 Best-Selling Revit Instructional Videos for Infinite Skills
 Revit in Plain English Blog over 10 years with over 700,000 visits

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 Hany Iwamura Professional Bio

 Hany Iwamura is the Director of Digital Practice at

KPMB Architects in Toronto, Canada

 Lead KPMB vision of digital design technologies

 Awarded 1st place in the Innovation Category and 2nd Place in the
Presentation category at the Revit Technology Conference 2015

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 Key learning objectives

At the end of this class, you will be able to:

 1.Know when Dynamo is ideal, or not
 2.Install Dynamo and Node Packages
 3.Make simple, practical Dynamo Graphs
 4.Know common terminology used by Dynamo

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  When is Dynamo Ideal?

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 Dynamo is not Ideal for…

 Distributing to many people, without training

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 Dynamo is not Ideal for…

 Distributing to many people, without training

 Large, multi-stepped routines
 Only runs one graph at a time

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 Dynamo is not Ideal for…

 Distributing to many people, without training

 Large, multi-stepped routines
 Only runs one graph at a time
 Tracking ‘live’ information
 Not intended to be running constantly

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 When is Dynamo Ideal?

 Automating something that is repetitive and takes

a long time
 i.e. filling out Room info from Excel, making Views

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 When is Dynamo Ideal?

 Automating something that is repetitive and takes

a long time
 i.e. filling out Room info from Excel, making Views
 Copying information from one place to another
 i.e. schedule Filled Region area

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 When is Dynamo Ideal?

 Automating something that is repetitive and takes

a long time
 i.e. filling out Room info from Excel, making Views
 Copying information from one place to another
 i.e. schedule Filled Region area
 Made and used by one person

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  Installing Dynamo

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 dynamobim.org/download/

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  Example 1: Make a Wall in Revit using Dynamo

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  Always set Run to Manual when starting a new
Graph. F5 runs Graph

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  Always save Revit and Dynamo BEFORE
running a Graph

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  Look at Symbols in description

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  Example 2: Make Flexible Auditorium Seating

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  If you close and reopen a Dynamo Graph in the
same file Dynamo will try to adjust the same
objects.

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  Consolidate Nodes if Possible

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  When renaming a single node, leave the original
Node name visible.

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  Make Groups of Nodes

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  Thank you Dynamo Forum!

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  Example 3: Read From and Write to Excel

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  Dynamo is View Sensitive. Most Graphs will work
while a Revit Floor Plan or 3D Isometric view is
open.

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  Example 4: Filled Region Areas

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  When searching, spaces matter i.e. getparam,
wall type

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  Double Click to make a ‘Code Block’. If you just
type a number, it will be a number. If you type “ ”
is will be a string.

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  Dynamo Packages

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  Sort by Download

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  Archi-Lab Grimshaw
 Get all Views
 Rhythm
 Get and Set Parameter (Type or Instance)
 Clockwork
 Element Location

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  Get Example Graphs

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 Glossary

 Dynamo Terms

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 Glossary

 Common Node Combinations

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 Appendix

 More Graphs…
 Make Levels, Walls and Floors by an Outline
 Auditorium Seating with Z Slope
 Spatial Separation (Percentage of unprotected
openings)
 Show Property Line in 3D
 Find Wall distance to Property Line

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