DP stuff

Construction Industry Productivity (what a f... shame)

2012-02-08T19:28:00.000-08:00

Here you go! Take a good look at this image above. I found this graph here. It is about the construction industry in general very much INCLUDING ARCHITECTURE. I just really felt like posting it, what a freaking shame! Why the heck do you think it is? Is it our arrogant attitude to technology? C'mon man, we are still drafting lines, redrafting, trimming, filleting (yes, not

Strategy for Negative Values in Family Parameters. Revit

2012-01-29T10:14:00.000-08:00

So, negative values in family parameters. I am sure most of you know how to deal with this problem, but I still wanted to get it out there for those that don't. By the way, this is my approach to dealing with this issue and I suspect that is not the only way of doing it so if you happen to know a better one – please share in the comments! Unable to display content. Adobe Flash is

In-Place Masses as Utility Elements / Helpers. Part 1 (no API)

2011-10-09T20:10:00.000-07:00

In this series of posts I am going to cover a few "other" ways utilizing masses in Revit projects. Not necessarily in the traditional sense of using them like driving the “by-face” creation of the building elements (floors, walls etc) or modeling geometry that is more complex than the project elements can handle, but using masses as utilities elements or helpers for your project development. I

Random Stuff - Randomizer for Revit

2011-08-24T12:43:00.000-07:00

It came up in the office a few days ago that we were needed to apply some random pattern on a façade somehow. I went online and tried to figure out if there was a way to somehow apply a pseudo random function in instance parameter formulas or at least to figure out some kind of hack on how to mimic the randomness with family functionality. I know that random component in Grasshopper is a

Good to be back ...

2011-08-06T13:15:00.000-07:00

Wow, it really has been a while since I posted anything here since the last time. It’s been almost half a year or so. I felt bad about it the other day, but here is the thing: it’s been about three month or so that I started taking train to work. It takes me about 105 minutes one way (!) so in total I spend about 210 minutes in commute each day, which is not really that bad of a thing once you

Galapagos Plan Optimization test

2011-02-14T21:50:00.000-08:00

(you can watch it here on YouTube in HD and larger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzvexUm4MuI) I have not had a chance to use Galapagos before but fortunately two days ago I started to mess around with it. I decided to test it but I wanted to set it up for something that would resemble some real-world arch/design related problem. So here I wanted to share this experiment related to

CALL FOR HELP (BIM/Performance tools survey)

2010-10-11T11:31:00.000-07:00

Hi all! I have been working on some Revit API lately related to building performance tools and integration of analysis software. For now it looks like it is going to be some collection of handy Revit tools. I have a few questions that I put in the form of a survey that hopefully will take me a bit further in my work. It is no big deal (I think about 10 questions or so) and should not take much

PROGRAM SOLVER

2010-08-04T07:02:00.000-07:00

OBJECTIVES To produce a system that will work with input program by computing its components’ position, orientation, size and inter-relationships within an envelope (task domain), and thus to get the most suited/efficient combination for existing conditions. SOLUTION This software (the program solver) is written based on the Emergent Behavior Algorithms / Evolutionary Algorithms. An idea

My Arduino blog UPDATES

2010-06-14T17:17:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to mention that I updated my curtain wall project material on MyArduino blog. So, go ahead an check it out... http://dimak1999arduino.blogspot.com/

First Evolution-based System!

2010-04-08T19:46:00.001-07:00

Exciting times! This might not look like a big deal but it is my first evolutionary system that I built myself, so it is actually a BIG deal for me! I am currently working on a building program solver for my thesis project. It will be a chunk of code based on evolutionary algorithms/principles and it is supposed to have program components as Simple Agents with their requirements as settings, a

Some More Facade Apertures (Grasshopper)

2010-03-17T12:00:00.000-07:00

This exercise was conducted to run solar exposure analysis on my building envelope and to produce flat fenestration panels with the apertures that correspond to the exposure values. The NURBS surface of the envelope was triangulated and the solar radiation analysis was run on it. Then the values of //DIRECT SOLAR RADIATION// were extracted to Excel file. (please, disregard that on the GH screen

Radiation Driven Facade Panels for Grasshopper

2010-02-15T09:39:00.000-08:00

Here I reworked the RhinoScript from the previous post into a GH definition. I follows pretty much the same logic as the rhinoscript. The problem that I had with the rhinoscript was that I'd have to set up a loop in order to be able to modify the panel parameters in the runtime and that thing worked pretty slow. Here in the GH definition you can do that and see the immediate effect on the

Radiation Driven Facade Panels

2010-01-30T00:16:00.000-08:00

I wrote a RhinoScript that generates fenestration panel components in response to solar exposure of the facade. Say you have an envelope that you want to create fenestration for. The workflow is that you mesh your NURBS surface (unless it is already a mesh) to a particular sized quads that will be driving your panels. Then you take this mesh through .3ds or some other extension to Ecotect and

Grasshopper "Ribs"

2010-01-28T19:01:00.001-08:00

Here is another tool in Grasshopper. This one outputs ribs. It only works with NURBS surfaces. I was making it with intention for others to use, so I was trying to put as much flexibility and functionality as possible. Maybe because of that it ended up not very user-friendly, but it does the job. I'd advise to put a little time in playing with it (it has a whole bunch of axis swapping so if it

Grasshopper "Section Tool"

2010-01-28T12:27:00.001-08:00

This is GH definition that works both with polymeshes and with NURBS surfaces. Basically, you just assign your object that you need to manufacture and then go through the settings. You can change the material thickness to control the amount of sections. Also it works of a BBox corners so I parametrized the Start and End of the axis (and you can flip axis to cut veridically or horizontally). This

Grasshopper/RhinoScript Tools

2010-01-28T12:17:00.000-08:00

I'm going to start posting some digital prototyping tools that I wrote in free time. Also some other generative Grasshopper definitions and RhinoScripts that might be of some use.So, I'll begin as soon as I figure where to host them By the way big thanks to Wiley G for sharing the space!

Curve Attractor RhinoScript

2009-09-04T22:02:00.001-07:00

Here is some little attractor script for curves that I wrote when I just began learning RhinoScript. Hopefully it will be useful for some people as a reference to build up on it. Below there is a similar script but for points as an input. I think I modified a script that I found on Roland Snooks website Rhino File (RightClick the link and select "Save Link As...") Script File (RightClick the

Point Attractor RhinoScript

2009-08-30T08:08:00.000-07:00

A script for attractor points that affect some field of repetitive surfaces. I'm pretty sure that I modified a script from Roland Snooks kokkugia website

DP / CATIA Power Copy_part8 (flexibility)

2009-07-22T06:58:00.000-07:00

DP / CATIA Power Copy_part7 (instanciation with VBScript)

2009-07-21T18:26:00.001-07:00

DP / CATIA Power Copy_part6 (instanciation)

2009-07-18T11:44:00.000-07:00

DP / CATIA Power Copy_part5 (surface)

2009-07-17T20:16:00.001-07:00

DP / CATIA Power Copy_part4 (sketcher)

2009-07-17T20:15:00.001-07:00

DP / CATIA Power Copy_part3 (sketcher)

2009-07-15T15:15:00.001-07:00

DP / CATIA Power Copy_part2 (support geometry)

2009-07-14T17:42:00.001-07:00