API & Dynamo

Work on a PhD project with Autodesk Research and The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL

Autodesk Research is delighted to be sponsoring a PhD studentship at The Bartlett School of Architecture - part of University College London (UCL) - to research better, more equitable...

Create multi-category schedules | Parametric Monkey

When creating a room data sheet, say for a healthcare project, it is often necessary to create a multi-category schedule that reports only the...

Place views on sheets with Dynamo

Setting up sheets and placing views onto them is necessary for documenting any project. Depending on your preference, there are generally two methods to...

Create a 3d view showing only #Revit wall structural layers

A post in the forum mentions that “I have a list of Walls and I want to create a new View3D with the same...

Callout from room with Dynamo

When documenting a project, it is often necessary to create callout views to show a specific area at a different scale. For example, in...

Voxelising point clouds in Dynamo with VASA

Last week we saw a Dynamo graph that imports a point cloud from an ASCII-based format to specify the initial locations for a fun...

Add revisions to multiple sheets

Since the release of Revit 2023.1 in November 2022, the ‘Revisions on Sheet’ edit button remains available when selecting multiple sheets. This enables the...

Create internal elevations with Dynamo

When documenting a building, it is often necessary to generate internal room elevations. Depending on the building typology, this may include all rooms or...

Setting "Units and Transform" values via Navisworks API

By Naveen Kumar Question: I'm trying to modify the Model Units, Origin, Rotation, and scale values of each appended 3D model. Is it possible to...

A case study in DfMA automation

The construction industry accounts for 38% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.1  And without intervention, climate breakdown and biodiversity loss will continue to accelerate....

Setting Appearance Profiler dat file via Navisworks API

By Naveen Kumar Description: The Appearance Profiler allows you to set up custom appearance profiles based on sets (search and selection) and property values. You...