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Revit Architecture 2015
by: Marcello Sgambelluri
A Robust & Versatile Dynamo
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f you have not heard the word Dynamo before in relation to Autodesk® Revit®, it is about time you did. It is the newest, most amazing add-in to hit Revit. It is literally the future of Revit and other Autodesk software. It’s hard to explain what Dynamo is because it does so much. For the purposes of this article Dynamo will be kept in the context of being used as an addin for Revit. Of course, Dynamo could also be used as a standalone program or used as an add-in for other Autodesk programs. Yes, it is an Autodesk program that is open source and free! The software can be downloaded from http://dynamoBIM.org, and source code is at https://github.com/ikeough/Dynamo. It is currently available for Revit 2013, 2014, and 2015.
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Design Script and Dynamo Version .70 Dynamo is developing so fast that is has daily builds, meaning that a new version is released on a daily basis. Of course, most of it is untested so there are “stable” builds that are released about every two months or so. The latest version of Dynamo (version .70) had the back-end code rewritten to include and incorporate Design Script methodology. This article will not go into too much detail about Design Script, but just be aware that all the Dynamo functionality could be done using simple Design Scripting. Design Script is a text-based programming language developed by Autodesk to simplify text programming for designers. When I say simplify, I mean it is the June 2014