Guidelines

Rhino to Revit

Rhino to Revit BIM Workflow ...

Revit to 3d Studio Max

The main object of this guideline is to show the different options of exporting a model from Revit to 3d Studio Max to do photorealistic ren...

Revit to Lumion

Lumion is a great software to get views and videos to showcase our projects with good quality in a really short time. So it is a good way to...

Navisworks Files

The objective of this guideline is to understand what Navisworks is and how to convert Revit files....

Facades Modelling

The objective of this guideline is to understand the difference between windows and curtain walls in Revit and to get a global view about ho...

Navisworks Clash Detection

The objective of this guideline is to comprehend clash detection tool for 3D coordination in Navisworks....

How to Open a Project in AECOsim

The objective of this guideline is to learn how to open a project in AECOsim....

Dropbox – Restore a folder to a specific date

Some times, because of errors, bad luck or virus attacks you might need to have one specific folder in your dropbox rolled-back to a previou...

Navisworks 4D Planning Workflow

The objective of this guideline is to understand the use of Timeliner for 4D planning in Navisworks....

Modelling Facades (II)

This guideline is created as an extension of the previous post Modeling of Facade Elements. Here we will talk about the visibility of the fa...

Which is the best format to export Surfaces from Rhinoceros to Revit?

The purpose of this post is to cover some of the different workflow options between Revit & Rhino and find out which is the best format to e...

How to Script Photoshop – In Depth

Where do we come from? I know that the last chapter in the “How to Script for Photoshop” series was not very well received. The ...

Grasshopper best practices

Tips for working with Grasshopper. Setting a number of good practices will help us to have clear files, that will allow an external person t...

Revit Graphics Appearance (III)

Visibility / Graphics Override by View Choosing how we want to see elements. First of all I want to clarify that I’m speaking about vi...

OmniClass, Keynote and Assembly Code

Adding OmniClass, Keynote and Assembly Codes data in our model is actually adding the “I” of BIM. But maybe you agree with me all that s...

Grasshopper Python 105

Loops (I) Loops are a fundamental weapon when dealing with program flow. You’ll want your component to perform a certain action many t...

Grasshopper Python 104

Lists In the last post we discussed applying conditional operations to single values. But that is way too simple. We expect to process many ...

Walls: Layers, location lines and functions

In Modelical, we use our own programmed tools to automate the task of putting the finishes of the rooms. The walls modelling strategy, altho...

Grasshopper Python 103

Conditional Statements Working with single values improves a lot when you can perform what is called conditional logic. This introduces a ba...

Grasshopper Python 102

Variables and Assignment After the introduction in our latest post now is time to get our feet wet with a fundamental concept: variables. Wh...