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How? There are hundreds of ways you can learn Dynamo. My good friend and mentor Julien Benoit at Groupe Legendre teaches his colleagues every day. Dynamo is so integrated in his team's project that they have to. For many of us this is more a case of playing
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How do you learn to play the piano? You learn the basics, find a YouTube instructor, and practice a melody that you like. That's how I do it anyway. How do you learn computer software? You learn the basics, and find a problem that you love solving. That&
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I want to animate design iterations in Revit with Dynamo. Now I can. Thanks to the first ever Annual Dynamo Hackathon, which took place in Las Vegas during this year's Autodesk University, I am now able to create animations of a whole set of various parameter calculations and
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Yesterday morning I woke up in Istanbul. By noon I was back at the office in Oslo having lunch with my friends at Dark. That flight marked my final appearance as a speaker at international BIM conferences in 2014. I've been in Melbourne, Chicago, Dublin, Las Vegas and
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One of this year's definitive personal highlights will be the dual lab Julien Benoit and I will be hosting at the Revit Technology Conference Europe 2014 in Dublin by the end of October. My recent adventures at RTCAUS in Melbourne (read more here) and Julien's unstoppable
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One of the things I really wanted to do when I started my current position as Digital Design Manager at Dark was to try to generate some interest around computational design. I'm absolutely no computational nor design expert, but I have some interest when it comes to conceptual
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In July I had the great privilege and pleasure of both attending and presenting at the inaugural Revit Technology Conference (RTC) North America, held in Vancouver Canada. This was my first ever RTC, and being invited to speak was very humbling and exciting. Meeting funny people from all over the
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[wpvideo fC50bvkm] I'm afraid I'm starting to bore my readers with this repeated going on and on about Image-O-Matic and animated Mass families. For that I'm sorry, but I have yet another example of it's potential use. Some time back
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One of the joys of working in an architectural practice like Dark is there's a slight chance I actually get asked to design something one day. I was recently challenged to produce a proposal for a glass ceiling on a project I work on. After some playing around
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Some time ago I stumbled upon the work of designer Sang Hoon Kim while surfing the Internet. Bam! Revit model. Well, "Bam! Revit model" is slightly exaggerating. It took me about a month of tweaking before I was satisfied enough to write a post. I'm still
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In my series of modeling stories that relate to water, next up is the roof of my local public bath. The last couple of times I've been there with my children I haven't been able to resist fantasizing about modeling the ceiling in Revit. It'