Dynamo: Revit Workflow

Use Dynamo to apply basic visual programming concepts to architectural design in Revit. Learn how to automate everyday tasks such as numbering rooms and calculating occupant loads.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Exercise files

1. Renumber Rooms by Level

• Roadmap: Renumber rooms by level
• Read Revit parameter data with Dynamo
• Remove characters from strings
• Concatenate lists of strings with Dynamo
• Set Revit parameter values with Dynamo
• Create your own custom nodes

2. Occupancy Calculations

• Roadmap: Calculating occupant loads
• Gather room area and occupancy data
• Calculate occupant loads with Dynamo
• Count family instances for a parameter

3. Analysis

• Roadmap: Analyzing room layout
• Draw lines between element locations
• Understanding list lacing
• Filter line lengths with a Boolean mask
• Highlight Revit elements with Dynamo

4. Computational Design

• Roadmap: Attractor-driven curtain panels
• Find boundaries of Revit Curtain Panels
• Set an attractor point
• Remap a range of numbers
• Generate a random list of numbers

Conclusion

• Next steps