This hands-on lab introduces participants to the fundamentals of visual programming within the Autodesk Vasari and Revit conceptual design environment. Custom code gives users the ability to efficiently automate many design tasks while also enabling new generative design capabilities. This lab demonstrates how to compose useful scripts using Dynamo Visual Programming for Revit and Autodesk Vasari software. The lab provides users with resources and step-by-step examples for automating geometry creation, adjusting family parameters using external data, and sharing information with different design platforms.

This lecture introduces participants to the fundamentals of visual programming within the Autodesk Vasari and Revit conceptual design environment. Custom code gives users the ability to efficiently automate many design tasks while also enabling new generative design capabilities. This lecture shows how to compose useful scripts using Dynamo Visual Programming for Revit and Autodesk Vasari software. The lecture provides users with resources and step-by-step examples for automating geometry creation, adjusting family parameters using external data, and sharing information with different design platforms.

Have you ever wanted to learn the Dynamo visual programming language extension for Revit software but you decided to run and hide instead because you thought it was only for super-complex geometry and twisting towers? It's not. The Dynamo extension is for every Revit user. This lecture will describe the uses of the Dynamo extension and explain how it interacts with Revit software to help any Revit user. The Dynamo extension is a program that uses visual programming, but don't let that scare you. This lecture will teach attendees how to use the Dynamo extension even if they have no prior programming experience. Now that the Dynamo extension and DesignScript programming language have merged, the Dynamo extension is even easier to learn and use. This lecture will also give attendees very gradual doses of the Dynamo extension and visual programming so they leave with the skills to apply the Dynamo extension to practical Revit software workflows. And don't forget that the Dynamo extension is an add-on to Revit software.

Have you ever heard of the Dynamo visual programming language extension in Revit software and wanted to know what it was all about? The Dynamo extension is not just for tower twisters and super-advanced programmers—the Dynamo extension is for every Revit user. The Dynamo extension uses a visual programming language, but it is an easy language to understand. In this lab attendees will get very gradual doses of the Dynamo extension and its programming environment so they gain the skills to make the Dynamo extension work in their everyday workflows with Revit software. No programming experience or complex modeling experience needed to attend this lab. You only need a little Revit experience.

Are you a Revit MEP software user who feels left behind in the development of Dynamo software? Well, not so fast! You can use Dynamo software to help expedite many common MEP workflows. The Dynamo extension is a program that uses visual programming, so you don’t have to worry about trying to learn difficult programming languages. In this class you’ll get to know the basics of Dynamo software and how it interacts with Revit software. We will also cover several examples where you can use Dynamo software to save time during the MEP design process. This lecture is ideal for Revit MEP software users who want to see what Dynamo software can do. Even better, no programming experience is required! Afterward, you will be able to implement Dynamo software immediately.

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Have you ever wanted to learn more about the Dynamo visual programming language extension for Revit software but thought it wasn’t for you? This lecture will describe the uses of the Dynamo extension and explain how it interacts with Revit software to help any Revit user. The Dynamo extension is a program that uses visual programming, but don't be scared. This lecture will teach attendees how to use the Dynamo extension even if they have no prior programming experience. This lecture will also give attendees very gradual doses of the Dynamo extension and visual programming so that they leave with the skills to apply the Dynamo extension to practical Revit software workflows. And don't forget that the Dynamo extension is an add-on to Revit.

This class will present how real-life architectural projects have used the Dynamo visual programming extension to optimize complex design problems within Revit software. The class will give an introduction to optimization and rationalization algorithms, and the attendees will use the Dynamo extension and Python programming language scripts to create faades that adapt to varying design requirements. Attendees will also learn how to generalize the workflow so to apply it to other design problems concerning rationalization and optimization.

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a programming environment that allows you to automate tasks using the Visual Basic programming language. This hands-on lab explores how to access and use the VBA integrated development environment (VBAIDE) and work with the AutoCAD object model. You learn to work with data, manipulate AutoCAD software objects, get input from a user, store values, work with basic conditionals, and other programming concepts. This is a beginner-level class for VBA programming and is not something you want to take if you already have experience with VBA programming.

The technology and tools for computational design in the built environment have never been more powerful or progressive. To complement their specific discipline knowledge, the current and next generation of designers and engineers entering the global workforce are armed with skills ranging from sketching to programming to Building Information Modeling (BIM). As buildings have grown in complexity so too has the power and ubiquity of simulation tools used by different specialist disciplines, with information and processes getting more disconnected up until data is transferred to a common format for delivery. It is time to shift focus away from data toward the spaces between the data. By extrapolating recent innovations in structural engineering processes—such as real-time feedback and gesture-based simulation using Robot Structural Analysis software—we will explore the possibilities of multidisciplinary building simulation using visual programming applications such as Dynamo software to control Revit software and other packages.

This lab is an introduction to customizing Inventor software using the software’s programming interface. Inventor software is a general-purpose design tool, but as an Inventor software user you have unique needs. Using Inventor software’s Application Programming Interface (API) you can customize Inventor software to be a tool specifically for you. Writing programs can often be intimidating, but this lab will cover the very basics of using Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Inventor software’s programming interface to create custom applications. You’ll have hands-on experience creating your own program that works with Inventor software to drive parameters and work with iProperties.

This class will describe how BuroHappold is using Dynamo with Revit to revolutionize their concept and schematic design phases. Visual programming has allowed us to use iterative design to show the influence of minute architectural changes to our MEP design. This allows us to communicate quickly, effectively, and visually with the entire project team. Automated zoning diagrams for heating, cooling, ventilation, electrical loads, and fire rating were generated iteratively. Additionally, Dynamo-powered automated calculations were utilized for plumbing pipe sizing, storm riser sizing, roof drain placement, and pressurization. We have also used the schematic level Revit model to accomplish space planning for risers and MERs. The utilization of Dynamo for Revit in early design has allowed us to deliver a faster, smarter, more creative, and better communicated building. Attendees will leave with an understanding of the limitless possibilities for Dynamo in early phases of design.

Generative design is a design method in which the output is generated by a set of rules or an algorithm. It is based on parametric modeling and it is a fast method of exploring design possibilities. Dynamo is a generative design application equipped with a user friendly interface based on Visual Programming. It’s a language which provides users ability to create geometry through scripts without any deep programming knowledge and experience. It allows designers and engineers to create geometry relationships based on rules and logic rather than traditional sculpting/push-pull manipulations and allows to generate geometry which normally would be very time consuming. This session will focus on some aspects of the generative design focused on detail modelling based on surfaces and geometry (complex and irregular 3d patterns, random geometry and fractal geometry) and show how these designs can be integrated into Alias and Alias SpeedForm models.

This class will present how real-life architectural projects have used Dynamo Studio software to accelerate complex Building Information Modeling (BIM) challenges within Revit software and Navisworks software. This class will explain how Dynamo Studio software with PythonScript is the essential missing link in the BIM process. Attendees will also learn the improvements to the user interface upgrades in version 0.8 of Dynamo visual programming language extension and how to consolidate their coding using Code Blocks.

Have you put off learning Dynamo for a while? Do you think now is the time? And are you curious about Visual Programming, Computational Design and Automation? Did you want to learn from the Dynamo team about all of these things? Maybe you want to be able to create your own Dynamo graphs after this Hands-on Lab? Come join us for the Dynamo Beginner Workshop focused on taking you from knowing nothing in Dynamo up to a working knowledge so that you can create your own graphs. You will understand the basic building blocks and concepts of Dynamo, explore how to create your own graph and correctly execute it and learn how to troubleshoot problems that may occur along the way. Come explore the world of Dynamo with us and supercharge your workalike through Computational Design and Automation!

Combine logic, geometry, math, and BIM (Building Information Modeling) with Dynamo visual programming. We'll use Dynamo to drive a Revit document and interoperate with other applications, data sources, and modeling tools. If you already have some experience with Revit software and are looking to expand its capabilities with computation, this workshop is for you. Basic understanding of computer programming and scripting is helpful, but not required. This is a full-day class, including networking opportunities over breakfast, lunch, and drinks. Participants will share one computer for every 2 people to encourage exchange.

Attend a panel discussion led by Autodesk, Inc., subject-matter experts and architectural firms that are using the Dynamo visual programming language extension. Leave with an understanding of how the Dynamo extension is extending workflows based in Revit software and is helping architects to drive Computational Building Information Modeling (BIM) from the earliest stages.

Adaptive components and advanced mass-modelling tools have been implemented in Revit since 2009 but are still ignored by many architectural practices assuming that Revit is a mere BIM tool for the detailed design phase. In this class, you will experience the potential of Revit for practical early stage design through a real case study: the A1 building in the new Baoshan Park in Shanghai, the landmark of the whole urban development. We will go through the design process used to manage the design of the complex shape and of the advanced façade. You will learn how we managed the design merely inside the Revit environment with massing, divided surfaces, surface patterns, and adaptive components. You will then learn how the same model could be created using Dynamo visual programming. Finally, you will experience how to create enhanced curtain panels with embedded sun-shading using Dynamo and Radiance. This class will demonstrate simple workflows in Dynamo, Python, and Revit.