It’s been a quiet week on the blogging front, mainly because of the May 1st holiday on Tuesday, but also because I’ve been heads-down on projects I can’t really talk much about.
One thing that does seem worth sharing is an approach we’ve been using to take geometry from Dynamo into Revit. The project itself relates to the use of Generative Design for urban planning. I can’t yet talk about the generative aspect – which is extremely cool – but once the design is basically finalised there’s a need to bring the geometry into Revit.
The ideal scenario would be to place Revit families, where that makes sense, but as a first step it was about bringing across basic solid geometry. Revit has a special Dynamo node that does just this: ImportInstance.ByGeometries. It creates solid geometry inside Revit based on the geometry objects passed in. It doesn’t do anything interesting with 1D and 2D objects, as far as I’ve been able to tell, so I’ve ended up creating a few…