Dynamo For Dummies screencast… interested?
Check out this free ‘practice’ screencast from Marcello, demonstrating how to extract points from Dynamo to Excel, among other things:PRACTICAL DYNAMO EXERSIZE 4 EXTRACT POINTS TO EXCEL PRACTICE01 – S…
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How to tell your Adaptive Points about gravity
Use the Orientation property……
Creating Revit Geometry from Point Clouds (Points to BIM workflows)
Update:I am enjoying using inverted background (black) when working with Revit and point clouds. Also, you MUST use this add-in by Harry:What Revit Wants: 3D Section Box crop add-in WITH automatic rot…
Using your Revit model for construction site layout by converting to points with Point Layout
Interesting – this kind of turns the point cloud technology upside down… It goes something like this: Revit model to points to site survey hardware (set out the building) build it then laser scan the …
A little Memento and some Recap Photo
For some time, I have been looking for a way to get 3D geometry from any format, make it into a nice, Revit-friendly SAT and then use it in massing or visualizations. Can Memento help me with this? An…
Have you heard of GreenSpider? The Revit point cloud importer?
It is an interesting add-in for Revit that can import point data into the conceptual environment. It was written to “narrow the gap between computational concept design, terrestrial laser scanning and…
Utility to index point cloud before importing to Revit
Very cool tip from Ben Malone – he shows you how to use AdPointCloudIndexer.exe from a command line (outside of Revit) to prepare point clouds for practical use. A typical 2013 location for this utili…
Editing the end point of a Spline in Revit
Have you ever been frustrated by Revit when editing the end point of a spline? You try to drag the end point – and instead the entire line gets dragged or scaled! The problem? You need to Tab-select t…
Revit and points in DWG files when making topography
Sometimes you may have trouble using a DWG that contains ‘points’ to create a Revit topography. There are two main ways around this. METHOD 1 Here is a LISP routine to export points in a DWG to CSV fi…