Dynamo: Visual Programming for Design

Www. dynamobim.orgThese tutorial will demonstrate how to use Dynamo Visual Programming for Autodesk Revit software and Autodesk Vasari. The lab will provide 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.
Computational Design refers to the ability to link creative problem solving with powerful and novel computational algorithms to automate, simulate, script, parameterize, and generate design solutions. Computational Design has had a profound impact on Architectural practice in recent years. Design practices, large and small, have begun to invest in new computational capabilities that allow them to customize their process and pursue new, innovative design agendas. Computation might be leveraged for a variety of tasks such as automating a redundant production process or to construct an expressive form-generator. Regardless of the end-use, what is clear is that designers need frameworks that let them construct their own tools.
Dynamo is primarily a plug-in for Autodesk Revit and Vasari. It works in Revit 2013, 2014 and Vasari Beta 3, and this tutorial requires that you have one of these applications installed. Dynamo can also run as a standalone application with all the list and logic functionality, and with some experimental geometry tools available using the Autodesk Shape Manager kernel. Work is also being done to port Dynamo functionality to other platforms.
Dynamo is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.