Autodesk University 2022 has come and gone. If you missed it and wanted to see the vlogs I did, check out that playlist here. With that, all the votes have been tallied, and they have announced the top speakers and classes for this year. I am ecstatic to announce that I did receive a top speaker award in the “Top-Rated Technical Instruction” category for my class, “I Shipped My Scripts: Awesome Strategies for Sharing Dynamo Graphs” For those who could not make it in person, the pre-recorded version of the class is available on Autodesk University’s website here. I also have a partial live reco ..read more

Recently, Revit 2023.1 was released, and shortly after, 2023.1.1 was released! In addition to all the new Revit features discussed here, there are quite a few improvements, enhancements, and new features for Dynamo! In this post, we will look at a few of my favorite features. (for a detailed list, visit the initial Dynamo 2.16 blog post here) 1. In-Line Node Renaming This is one of those features that, once you see it, you think, “Why was it not always this way?!”. By double-clicking a node name, you can now rename it right in line. Simply awesome. 2. Custom Inputs Node For the longest time, w ..read more

It’s been a little while since I could do a post like this. As we all know, the last two years have been filled with virtual conferences, meetups, and live streams. These have been great, and connecting to everyone on this level has been incredible. (Check out the playlist below for a few of them): However, here we are in 2022 and in-person events are back! As a matter of fact, the first AEC Event(back in person) that I attended was BILT. I actually managed to vlog that experience here: BILT Aftermath And now, here we are with Autodesk University on the horizon. I am pleased to say that I a ..read more

“All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” — Pablo Picasso. If you have followed my blog for any amount of time, you have probably seen a few of the different UIs I have built. Often, these have memes, GIFs, comic sans, or are otherwise silly. One of the most recent ones (input identifier) People are often quick to attack and critique these design choices. Dismissing the work as a waste of time, or flat-out treating me like I am an idiot. What makes me sad about the people who react poorly is, what is their goal? Is it to discourage someone from learnin ..read more

As you may know, Autodesk University was last week and it was really l great seeing everyone in person again. I wrote a post about it here, AU Aftermath. At this year’s event I was lucky enough to teach a Dynamo class. I was also unlucky enough to have it scheduled on the LAST TIMESLOT OF THE LAST DAY. Needless to say, the pressure was on to make it as fun as I could. In addition to having a ton of fun, I was able to record a good chunk of the class, (until my GoPro died). The recording is available now on my YouTube channel and the sample files are linked below as well. And since the sample ..read more

Well, as quickly as it arrived it is now gone. Autodesk University 2022 is a wrap. Right up front, I want to say that, this event was amazing because it was in-person and I had the chance of seeing people I had not seen in years and meet others that I had only ever interacted with virtually. This year was also the first year that I have ever pushed myself to create a “vlog” for each day of the event. Previously, I had done this at BILT North America 2022. You can read all about that here. Aside from talking to a camera, one of the hardest parts of making a vlog each day is my turnaround of try ..read more

If you have followed this blog for any amount of time, you are probably familiar with my passion around sharing “my Dynamo journey”. The summary is, I opened Dynamo in 2013, it threw all sorts of errors at me and I closed it, (thinking, “I will never learn this”). In 2014, I attended Marcello’s class at Autodesk University (AU) and it finally clicked. My python journey (in Dynamo) is extremely similar. I opened Python at a lab at AU2014 and it was intimidating! Here are a few images of my journey: Today, I am excited to continue this journey by introducing my new co ..read more

While preparing for a Dynamo presentation, I typically spend a lot of time diving into Dynamo’s source code, release notes, and blog posts. For this year, there have been quite a few changes. This includes visual changes, bug fixes, and regressions. One of the most significant regressions this year is that some newer Dynamo graphs (Dynamo 2.12+) will not open in older versions (Dynamo 2.6.1-). In fact, when you try to open these graphs you receive no notification of what happened. The summary is, that dropdowns were fixed in 2.12 but broke in older versions, and you need to install this packag ..read more

Have you upgraded your Dynamo graphs to Revit 2023 and they look like this? Thankfully we have a few options to fix this. Option #1 comes to us from the Dynamo forums. Jacob was friendly enough to create a batch resizer graph that will fix a directory of DYNs. https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/graph-resizer-for-dynamo-2-13/75612 It works really well, but (at the time of this post) has a few issues if you rename nodes with special characters. For instance, Rhythm nodes are renamed on placement with the prefix of ʳʰʸᵗʰᵐ|. Your option for fixing this is to open the DYN in notepad and replace those c ..read more

Revit 2023 has been out for a few months now, and I gotta say, I have grown to like the new UI of Dynamo quite a bit. Yes, there are a few things you have to adapt to (node size changes) but once you get past that it is a solid release, (and the team is adding new features to the daily builds all the time). However, there has been a pretty serious bug that worked past the team regarding setting parameter values in Revit 2023. Super Informative With Revit 2023, we are experiencing the finalization of some pretty significant API changes when it comes to units and parameters. We have been getting ..read more