Adding Revit data to Rhino models using Rhino Inside!

Nifty little workflow today, basically using Elefront to 'inject' BIM data from Revit into Rhino, including layers by category. Huge time saver!

I hope you enjoy the session and learn something new! Feel free to comment any feedback/questions below, or follow my channel if you enjoyed this.

0:00 Intro
2:21 Exporting the model
6:02 Scripting begins
29:45 Running it all at once
30:53 Outro

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#revit #dynamo #bim

[adriansoble]

This workflow is FANTASTIC. The idea of a "no bake" workflow is such a good idea. I have spent soo much time baking geometry one category at a time as I go using Dynamo/Rynamo; but this seems much more efficient. I am just hoping the "find similar member" component does not become too much of a bottleneck for larger Revit models. Thank you for making this!

[Yodh]

for step 4 you need to input both Name and Layer on the new Elefront Attributes otherwise you will have name deleted and layer color turn to black. Just to help anyone stack

[parimalvala]

Thankyou very much for the workflow. Always happy learning from you.. 🙂🙂

[TheSameDonkey]

That's a clean ordely workflow you got there... Good stuff.
It's great to see someone else using elefront, I feel it doesn't get enough exposure. It totally changed how I work over the past year

[JesusJimenez-wnvi]

Thanks for the reply in the Balkan Video and for this video as well.

[vratislavruzek]

Thank you for the workflow.
How would you manage revit objects like windows when you need to put each geometry to its layer according to its material? The FBX exporter exports the whole window under one ID.

[aspenleethurman]

Hey! I had a question. My Text Fragment node is not fully working for some reason. An error comes up as "start index beyond end of text grasshopper". Do you know how to fix this?

[joelocampo]

hi BIM Guru, thank you for this useful tip, I installed elefront in my grasshopper but I cannot see the Elefront panel inside rhino? any help?
thank you very much,
Joel

[justinshultz]

With all the changes to Rhino.Inside do you still find the best workflow to be exporting the FBX?

[sidafeng]

Hey thanks for this excellent tutorial! Just wondering are these materials really could be transferred to rhino materials and render in Enscape? Is there any possibility we could control the mapping channel of them in grasshopper?

[marcinosiecki]

Thank You for the workflow it's very fascinating. I'm curious how the make 2d function will work with Your model in order to create floor plans :)

[est]

Hey, I cannot find the component Define object attributes in eleFront. I have the latest EleFront plugin. Is there an updated component for that one which has a different name?

[almosenjakulinan]

Hi, any idea why I can't find "Get Element Parameter" function? Is the name changed?
Thank you

[九合]

Any idea why the rename attributes doesn't work? After clicking 'activate', name columns become blank...

[rezwanulhoque]

there is a one problem, when i click the button for send data in grashhopper, all layer turned into black from color layer in rhino, it convert to default layer, whats the problem is this?

[juliaratajczak]

Hi, thank you for the great tutorial! I would like to ask you if you have a solution for managing elements ID if there are various lengths? In your case, you extracted Ids with 7 digits. What about if you have from 6 to 7 digits?

[andreassode]

Hi, thanks for these tutorials! I followed your other tutorials on exporting rooms and went back to do this one as well. However, when I run the script with the Revit sample file, it somehow mis-matches the ID's of materials and layers - for example the roof is in the Window-layer etc. Do you know if I might be missing something?

[TheSameDonkey]

Slight aside here, but do you have any experience using the data input and data output nodes for multi user workflows? I have the ambition of getting the rest of my office into using grasshopper collaboratively and think it's part of the solution but haven't explored it much yet

[pingchung]

Hi, do you have lower revit version model like 2019 so that I can use. Appreciate your tutorial!!

[aferrarotto]

I cant find the Get parameter component. Is there a way we can use Elelment Parameter to do the same thing ?