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While Zach spends the day doing generative geometry, I spend most of my days working in Revit.  So I thought that perhaps people would like to learn some of the things I have figured out only after many long hours of working in the program.

Today we’ll start with a few keyboard shortcuts that I use all of the time.  Not super advanced, but timesavers nonetheless.  This is a short list, I will add more as I think of them.  If you have shortcuts that you use frequently, feel free to post in comments and let us know about those as well.

CO copy

DIM dimension

HH quick hide

PR Element Properties

RO rotate

TL thin lines

VG visibility graphics

I’m attending AU2009 in Las Vegas this week. If you’d like you can follow designalyze on Twitter. @designalyze

This is a “quick” introduction to Grasshopper I did for SHoP Construction’s fall studio at NJIT run by Jon Mallie and John Cerone.  Most of the things in this video are covered in other videos on the site but it introduces a few new features added to Grasshopper.  Toward the end of the tutorial we cover relationships between Grasshopper and Excel.  If you want to skip ahead to that part it is near the 100min mark of the video.  This tutorial skips over a lot of the basics regarding canvas navigation, component colors, etc. and dives right in to some examples.

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I’m a little late getting this post out but for anyone interested Crisis Modes is a one-week intensive design workshop to be held in New York City from August 17-21.

The workshop will take place in a studio setting and will be devoted to exploring relational design strategies and digital design methodologies for speculative infrastructures. New York City, with its breadth of ecological and urban complexity and in particular its urbanizing industrialized waterways, will be the primary context explored.

I will be presenting SHoP’s DIFFA Dining By Design project on Wednesday night at 7pm as well.

You can find out more info at MODELAB

Details :
All interested students and professionals are encouraged to attend. All experience levels are welcome.
All participants are required to bring their own laptops. Trial software will be made available.
Registration Pricing (limited enrollment) : $750 Academic | $1000 Professional.
Workshop Location : Terminal Building | 11th Ave at W 26th St. | Chelsea, Manhattan.
Workshop Hours : 9AM-6PM followed by events listed below.

*Pricing Includes Material and Fabrication Costs.

Schedule :
2009.August.17 | Evening Question + Answer : “Gowanus Revealed” | Josh Verluen | Riverkeeper | Public Event. 7PM.
2009.August.18 | Evening Screening : “The City Concealed” + “Heart of Gowanus” | Greenpont Video Project | Public Event. 7PM.
2009.August.19 | Evening Presentation : “Dining By Design” | Zach Downey | Applied Technology Group at SHoP + designalyze | Public Event. 7PM.
2009.August.20 | Evening Presentation : Speaker TBA | Public Event. 7PM.
2009.August.21 | Cocktail Hour with conversation and work on display. Public Event. 7PM.
2009.August.22 | Gowanus Canoe Trip for interested attendees | Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club | Free Event 1PM.

Virginia Tech’s 2009 Solar Decathlon team has recently launched its new website.  lumenHAUS features the developed screen pattern that was studied during the grasshopper workshop held in February 2009.  Following the workshop, Jonathan Grinham and the Virginia Tech Solar Decathlon team continued to develop the script, and have produced a full scale mock-up of the screen.

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Autodesk released a plugin that natively supports Rhino’s 3DM file type in Autodesk Inventor 2010.  This in combination to the support for Alias Studio makes Inventor a great choice for fabrication work.

Find out more at Autodesk Labs

This video is by Dr. Eyal Nir the creator of ParaCloud and is the first video demonstrating ParaCloud GEM - a 3D pattern modeler.   

Over the next few weeks I’ll also be investigating the potential crossovers between the ParaCloud products and Grasshopper to extend the possibilities of generative design.

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