2nd Digital Revolution, BIM The first use of the word ‘digital’ in the building industry was with the introduction of CAD. The introduction of CAD brought about great change not only for architectural design, but also overall construction industry which includes aproval and construction. And in an extremely short time. What is noteworthy in this process is that architects has becom the protagonist, more than anyone like the permit holder, the ordering party, or the contractors Architects have already taken the lead in introducing ‘digital’ into architecture, and the aforementioned related fi ..read more

It's not surprising that most of regular polyhedrons can't be created easily in Revit. Just few of 3d software have a feature which can create regular polyhedrons instantly.(eg. 3ds-max) It is well known that there are only 5 regular polyhedrons. And it's quite easy to make them with paper works. But it's not that simple to create them as 3D computational model. You have to deal with a bit complicated angles to create one. Once I've tried a similar a few years ago as follow with AC. But it can't cover all 5 types at once. So I tried to develop an advanced method with Dynamo. semi ..read more

I created a page for sharing some of my custom nodes for Dynamo. Just click the image at left. I'm planning to append more if anything useful I create.  Please drop in from time to time. Enjoy ..read more

It's been quite a long time for me using Revit. When I started to use it, I always had a question that why I can't separate walls and floors from multiple layers in Revit. Because, as an architect, I wanted to use singular compounded wall or floor families for schematic design, then change them as separated ones for D.D and C.D phase. After start using Dynamo, I just thought it could be possible. So I tried to create a code for the job. I'm not sure it's as useful as my thought. but worth to try. After created the code for Walls above, I created another code for Floors here. It w ..read more

Few years ago, the world famous singer, Michael Boltton visited Korea to have his concert. 'When a Man Loves Woman' is one of his great hits. I love Revit. But, sometimes I almost forget it while I struggle with technical issues in busy projects.  So, I do some useless works when ever I realize it. What do you imagine when you think about LOVE? There can be a lot of candidates, But nobody can deny that flowers should be one of the strong ones. Especially ROSES. So, I decided to give a rose to Revit to prove my love for her. (Please don't tell my wife) Do you love Revit? If ..read more

I know you must say that, "Again?? Helix?? WTF!!! Change your blog title as Enjoy Helix, U idiot!!" If you can't get what I'm saying, please read some of my old posts first later. 1.Helix..Helix..Helix 2.Helix Again I just can't help myself doing this useless stuff, AGAIN!!. But it's true that I've learned lots of useful things while I've been doing something useless. Original Helix in Dynamo It was a great news for me that there is an easy way to make a helix in Dynamo. Helix.ByAxis is the one as below. But, there is no limit to people's my greed. Watch what I created. What ..read more

There are some families which include annotations. And some of them can be more convenient to use if locations of texts are parametric.   Above are common level symbol we are using. What do you think is the best way to express those at documents using Revit? The family needs to.. 1. have parameters to manipulate gap between levels. 2. have texts which follow levels. (both number & location) The way I found is.. Make a text to a group with invisible lines, then you can make dim labels which can control location of the text. I'm not saying this is the best way. But it's co ..read more

    Recently I've been asked about how to make a Tetra-Pod with Dynamo. After I created one, I felt it's a quite simple but good example of using geometrical construction in Dynamo, so I'm posting about it.     Basically, the geometry of a Tetra-Pod is from a regular tetrahedron as it's name. So if a regular tetrahedron could be created, making a Tetra-Pod wouldn't be very difficult.     Actually, I've already posted about creating five types of regular polyhedrons a few years ago.(You can read the post here) I've used math to find each nece ..read more

In my opinion, one of the wonderful things in using Dynamo is that it makes you to be able to simulate any physical behaviors of real world in Revit. A tablecloth makes dynamic shape which depends on shapes of tables and the shape of itself. And we all know that it's all about physics(including gravity). Here is an example I created.  The dyn generates a geometry of tablecloth which covers selected table family with applied tablecloth shape. You can download above dyn as usual. Enjoy ..read more

    One of the advantages of using Revit is in making documents. Revit makes it easy for me to create plans, elevations, legends or schedules. But some of elements in Revit models are quite tricky to make it's documents.     Curtain Wall is one of them. It's harder especially when it has curved location line. In Autocad environments, I've naturally drawn a planar for it's documents, but in Revit, I had to use 3d views, assembly or other ways to explain it through documents.     I know there are several Dynamo solutions for unfolding. But I couldn't find a gre ..read more