Custom Casework Inspired by Renzo Piano using Rhino.Inside for Revit | Start to Finish Workflow

This start to finish workflow uses Grasshopper to model custom casework inspired by Renzo Piano's design at the Jerome Seydoux Pathe Foundation in Paris. This system is fully parametric controlling the profile sizes of the casework supports, spacing, and trim all driven by a single closed curve modeled in Rhino. Let's dive in!


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[Timestamps]
0:00 Intro + Overview of the finished design
2:28 Start Walkthrough opening up Revit and Rhino Inside
4:15 Begin detailed walkthrough setting up Revit with Rhino.Inside running
7:52 Begin authoring Grasshopper script - setup horizontal row "rails"
22:14 Worksession / Link in profile curves
26:20 Setting up Source Plane
31:30 Setting up Target Plane
34:30 Setting up the Sweep Geometry
36:15 Extending the Curve to be cut relative to the outside edge
43:35 Getting Geometry into Revit
48:00 Part 2 showing the Vertical Workflow
59:15 Get Upper Curve to use for the Casework Trim
1:03:30 Stabilize the solution
1:12:35 Take Cutting Trim Curve and make the casework trim geometry
1:16:00 Save and Load Family into Revit Project

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This tutorial specifically gets into how to Worksession a profile model into the working model. Using these profiles, you can swap them out to quickly change the size of the framing members. We use the Split Brep component to trim the surface edges and ultimately use Rhino.Inside with Direct Shapes to categorize and parameterize our geometry to seamlessly import into Revit. The tutorial uses Rhino Inside to generate the design into a loadable family that can be easily re-used in the Revit project environment. Future videos can explore how to frame out the door and window openings seen in the image inspired by Renzo Piano's design.

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Interested in using Revit data to create geometry/data in Rhino. Like querying wall / hosted elements in Grasshopper and generating kitchen/cabinet layouts, for example, or creating stud and gypsum layouts