Have you ever wanted an alternate method to create structural roof beams in Revit? Its easy just use a 2-point adaptive component and Grasshopper (which uses the Rhino.Inside.Revit addin) Just follow the steps below and good luck. If you would like to see this as a demo watch this youtube channel If you are not familiar with Rhino Inside read about it here. If you want the Dynamo equivalent as shown above then read about it here. If you want more of these types of examples they could be found in my new book to be published soon. Thank you readers and good luck with Grasshopper ..read more

A NEW TECHNOLOGY There is a new technology that is emerging in our AECO+ industry. It is called Rhino Inside. Rhino inside means that Rhino is installed as an “addin” to other software. This is revolutionary for software in AEC. In this blog post let’s focus on all the amazing things Rhino has to offer when it is attached to Revit…. and thus refer to Rhino Inside as Rhino Inside Revit. WHAT DOES RHINO INSIDE REVIT DO? For starters Rhino inside Revit makes a seamless by-directional handshake between Rhino and Revit so elements and data could be passed back and forth in real time ..read more

Have you ever wanted to create orthogonal Grids in RAM Structural Software? Its easy if you use Dynamo, C# and the RAM API. See the image below For more information see previous Blog on a detailed description on how to get started using the RAM API and c# and Dynamo together.Make sure to load in the Interop.RAMDATAACCESSLib.dll file that is in the RAM install directory http://therevitcomplex.blogspot.com/2019/06/getting-started-with-ram-api-using.html ..read more

Hello Readers When I was first looking into how to get started with using the RAM API for CONNECTING Dynamo to RAM. I found NO help out on the internet. I thought I would simplify this process for you if you were wanting to get into the RAM API by creating this simple example on how to  get the story count from a RAM model. Make sure you have the proper references loaded into your class library project in visual studio. For more API examples please reference the RAM API Manual called "RAM DataAccess Developers Guide.pdf". It could be found in the RAM Install Directory. Note: It was written b ..read more

Hello When I was first looking into how to get started with using the ETABS api for making my own addins I found no easy examples out there. I thought I would simplify this process for you. Simply follow the steps below to get started. I chose Dynamo since it is an easy way to "call" these methods. Make sure you have the proper references loaded into your class library project in visual studio. Also you could reference the API docs that are installed in your ETABS install directory although they will not be as easy to understand as the example above. Have questions? There is a dynamo packag ..read more

Good News everyone. The Simplex Package now has Dynamo for RAM. I will add more examples in the future. Also added were descriptions and an new github site https://github.com/marcellosgamb/SIMPLEX Check it all out ..read more

Have you ever wanted to get the nth item out of a nested list that is just 2 levels deep in Dynamo? For example you want to get the first entry from a nested list so you want the first entry from the first list, the first entry from the second list and so on? Its easy. See the image below that gets the top surface of a list of cube faces and learn how. The trick here is to use "list at level" and it removes the need in this cast to use "list.map" Have fun getting those nth items ..read more