Modelling an organic house in Rhino 3D with Subd and then converting all elements into Revit to produce detail drawings would be a nice topic for your future tutorials!
this was great thanks! What is the best way to deal with curtainwalls? If the glass is modeled in Rhino as a surface early on in design, and mullions and/or fins are modeled as solid extrusions via Grasshopper and then baked into Rhino for design visualization, how can all that be turned into Revit curtainwalls? What is the best way to do this? To set it up and work with?
Great video very helpful. The third method you used was to make elements in Revit as a Generic model and then use grasshopper as a script for the parametric algorithm. If we are doing this then why not simply make the generic model in Revit and use Dynamo for the parametric script, with this method everything will be built in Revit. In this way no need to use Rhino/ grasshopper/ Rhino inside Revit at all. Please let me know if its possible.
I can think of a few reasons. Dynamo and grasshopper are both python based script. Its really the UI that is different, and rhino is an additional UI that lets me interact with and analyze and correct problems where Dynamo is just a direct line. Secondly, the Dynamo UI is - to be blunt - pure a##.
Fantastic tutorial. Thank you! By the way - do you have any experience with more complicated geometry import into Revit via Rhino (as nurbs based solids for instance)?
First of all, thank you very much for the video. I love this method of bringing in geometry. But i do have one question, it appears that the geometry that comes in via the 2nd method you showed does not have the "Graphics/Visible settings within a Family where i can have an on/off parameter. Is there a way to add that?
When importing the rhino model in Revit, are there limitations on using revit dimensions with the rhino model? Mainly having dimensions snap to the rhino object? I am just thinking of someone who wants to get into Revit to begin con docs from the rhino file using revit capabilities.
yes there are limitations - main one being that dimensions are associated to the object GUID, so if your rhino to revit process (grasshopper script) duplicates, or copies, edits and removes the original geometry (and therefore makes a new GUID) then you will lose your dimensions. There are some plugins that now deal with this problem but 100% sure that if you recreate the geometry on the revit side at any point, it creates a new GUID and your dimensions are associated to that GUID.
Mainly Dynamo is all round not that great, much slower, interface is poor, search function is almost useless and you don’t have to consistently manage all the different versions and packages. But most importantly we design with grasshopper so make sense to carry that skill set across to our BIM platform.
