Model Groups are crucial to model multi-family housing projects in Revit. Recently, we’ve released a guide containing good practices with Groups. The problem with groups is that you cannot schedule elements that are part of a specific group. By using the power of Dynamo, you can easily add unique parameters to group parameters, allowing you to easily schedule, sort, and filter everything from a specific unit type. Do you want to download all Dynamo Scripts included in this post? Do you want a PDF version of this guide, with extra content about automating groups? Use the link below: Watch the ..read more

This post includes 3 scripts you can download to automate interior Design in Dynamo. These scripts were created by Bill Carney and included in his LinkedIn Learning course called Revit and Dynamo for Interior Design. Bill discussed these scripts in a recent episode of Revit Pure Live: Make sure to download all the required custom packages for Dynamo. Also, script #3 requires a custom node you need to install. Follow the instructions. Finally, it is recommended you get familiar with the script by trying it in the sample file provided. Thanks and good luck. EDIT: we’ve added a video tutorial o ..read more

This post is an excerpt from our new MANAGE learning package for Revit. You can download this entire post with extra free content by using this link: Dynamo is a visual programming platform for Revit. Typically, programming is done with text. Visual programming replaces code with nodes and wires instead. In the end, you can achieve the same result by building a custom add-in than a Dynamo script. In the image below, the Visual and Textual programs both accomplish the same thing. In this chapter, we will focus on modifying parameters and information. Dynamo can be used to generate geometry ..read more

Today, I’ve received an interesting question from Gerald Castillo, a Revit Pure reader: I really need some help regarding revision clouds. Is it possible to create revisions with a different color for each revision? What I mean is for example for Revision 1 = color red then Revision 2 = Color Blue? View filters would be a great tool for this task, but the “Revision Clouds” category isn’t available there. Which leaves us to use Dynamo. If you know nothing about Dynamo, have a look at our MANAGE learning package for Revit. It includes a long chapter about Dynamo. One of the Dynamo videos can be ..read more

A big part of the BIM manager job is to set up systems to automate boring and repetitive tasks. There are countless Revit plugins out there. In this post, we bring you the most useful ones. Here is the complete list, in no particular order. This guide is an excerpt from our brand new MANAGE learning package for Revit. If you want to step up your Revit game to become a BIM expert, this is the course you need. LEARN MORE 1- FAMILY REVISER by DIROOTS COST: Free DOWNLOAD LINK Family Reviser can be used to find & replace text in a project. A valuable use of this tool is to modify the prefix o ..read more

Folks, it's time to talk about the Dynamo Player. We've got Dana De Fillipi (aka Danamo) with us on the upcoming episode of Revit Pure Live. Dana will teach you how to improve the inputs and outputs in the Dynamo player to provide users with a better experience. This way, users can use scripts without having to open Dynamo itself. Dana is a BIM specialist at SmithGroup. She is also the co-host of the BIM Thoughts podcast and has her own YouTube channel at DanamoBIM. The live show will be on Wednesday, May 26th, at 8 PM EDT. Click here to watch the ..read more

You spend hundreds of hours doing boring and mundane tasks on Revit. These tasks can be automated using tools like Revit Macros or the visual programming platform Dynamo. In this guide, you will learn about the difference between Macros and Dynamo. You will also learn 3 boring tasks you should start automating now using Dynamo. To write this post, I had the help of Michael Kilkelly from archsmarter.com. He is a leader in the Revit programming space and wrote many useful blog posts on this topic. He also has created his own courses about programming and efficiency in Revit. The main difference ..read more