Are you having an issue exporting to Excel even though your Dynamo is up to date? Solution? Reinstall Microsoft Excel. Thank you to the Dynamo community for this solution. https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/export-to-excel-not-working/64475/2
Always remember to Sync and Save before running a Dynamo Script. No matter how simple or complicated a Dynamo Script could be, you never know if you’ll running into an error or an infinite loop, and the next thing you know Revit crashes. Suddenly you’re scrambling to find a back-up Read more…
One of the hardest elements to manage are Scope Boxes. Revit doesn’t have a native “Scope Box” Manager to show you all the Scope Boxes in the model, how they are named, or which workset they are on. This becomes extremely difficult to manage when your project has over 20 Read more…
One of the quickest ways to select elements in Revit and bring them into Dynamo is by using the “Collect.CurrentSelection” node from the Spring Nodes package. This node is very quick and versatile allowing you to control the active selected elements on screen rather than filtering down elements using Dynamo Read more…
A very commonly used node to read element parameter values in Revit is the Get Parameter Value by Name node. Search for “getparameter by name” to find the node. Notice how the words “get” and “parameter” do not have a space in between them to retrieve the correct node every Read more…
Once in a while, you may attempt to open a Dynamo script only to have an error pop up stating “Error opening corrupted file”. This error is rather deceiving because in most cases the reason is because the Dynamo version in which the graph was created was in a different Read more…
Downloading and installing packages in Dynamo is a regular routine task when using Dynamo. Packages are bundles of custom scripted nodes created by various users and groups around the world. Custom scripts help increase Dynamo’s functionality and from time to time the packages need updating when their creators push out Read more…
Find elements in a Revit model by ID or a list of IDs. This script is useful if you have a list of element IDs available in a list form, such as in an Excel file format. Sometimes this list can be extracted from a clash detection report or a Read more…
Dynamo is a plugin for Revit that enhances your productivity by giving you more functionality to Revit that would otherwise be limited due to the nature of the software. Dynamo can be compared to other plugins such as Grasshopper which is a plugin for a 3D design software called Rhino. Read more…
Creating materials in Revit can be a burden, especially when there are a large number of materials to be created. One example scenario would be the application of required materials according to the BIM execution plan of the project. The current out-of-box method (in current Revit versions at the time Read more…