Dynamo 2.x Essential Training

Course details

Autodesk Dynamo allows Revit users to solve modeling challenges in smarter, faster ways. You can read and analyze data from outside sources, create new geometry, and edit the geometry in existing Revit files—all using Dynamo's node-based visual language. This training course helps you understand the basic concepts behind visual programming with Dynamo and apply them to architectural modeling in Revit. Instructor Ian Siegel shows how to construct data-driven geometry, analyze relationships between Revit elements, and import data from multiple non-Revit sources and formats, including Excel and digital images. Plus, learn techniques to optimize common design tasks in Revit: placing families and components, adjusting parameter values, and creating new views and sheets.

Learning objectives
Placing and connecting Dynamo nodes
Working with data types and math functions
Creating number lists and text strings
Writing data to an Excel spreadsheet
Filtering and sorting data
Creating points, curves, surfaces, and solids
Analyzing geometry
Linking a Dynamo-driven SAT to Revit
Placing Revit families with Dynamo
Creating Revit views and sheets with Dynamo

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Automate your BIM workflows with Dynamo
02 - Exercise files

1. Getting to Know Dynamo

03 - What is Dynamo
04 - Navigating the UI and node library
05 - Placing and connecting nodes

2. Working with Data

06 - Understanding data types
07 - Performing math functions
08 - Using numbers to output other data types
09 - Creating a list of numbers
10 - Generating lists with sequence and range
11 - Using lists of numbers as inputs
12 - Modifying and analyzing text strings
13 - Reading data from an Excel spreadsheet
14 - The basics of managing lists
15 - The basics of managing nested lists
16 - Using the List@Level feature
17 - Working with Excel data in Dynamo
18 - Writing data to an Excel spreadsheet
19 - Filtering data
20 - Sorting data

3. Constructing and Analyzing Geometry

21 - Creating points
22 - Creating lines, polycurves, and polygons
23 - Creating arcs and NURBS curves
24 - Using vectors to translate geometry
25 - Rotate and mirror with vectors and planes
26 - Creating surfaces and solids
27 - Creating solids with loft
28 - Modifying solids
29 - Analyzing solids
30 - Analyzing curves
31 - Analyzing surfaces
32 - Exporting geometry as SAT and STL

4. Revit

33 - Accessing Revit geometry and data
34 - Linking a Dynamo-driven SAT into Revit
35 - Placing Revit families
36 - Placing adaptive components
37 - Setting Revit parameter values
38 - Creating views and sheets

Conclusion

39 - Next steps