Managing and Visualizing Your BIM Data

Chapter 9: Using Dynamo to Place Family Instances

Hi there! In this chapter, we will leave Power BI aside for a moment and use the skills we gained in Chapter 8, Deep Dive into Dynamo Data Types, to create a new script that places families automatically inside our Revit model. Have you ever needed something like that?

I've needed it a lot of times. Here at La SIA, an Italian engineering and architecture firm, we complete several types of projects. We work in both the private and the public sector, and we provide design services for the architectural, MEP, and structural fields. Among all our projects, a big part of them is related to the telecommunications sector. We generally produce hundreds of Revit models per week. We often need new Dynamo ...