New CASE Building Suite has landed! #CASEbs
After many late nights of hardcore research, development, ping pong, CoD, and energy drinks, we have finally released our own set of tools for the building industry! We are set to transform how...
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Enough with the fools... let's look at some tools!
CASE Grasshopper tools and workflows to facilitate the energy analysis process.While many of the tools from this month's CASE announcement showed a lot of promise it may be some time before we ever see...
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LunchBox for Grasshopper Update
Just in time for Cinco de Mayo... here's a modest update to LunchBox for Grasshopper!The plug-in has not been updated in almost a year and a half so it was about time to ensure the code remained in...
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LunchBox for Dynamo: Bring your BIM into your Algorithm
Memorial Day weekend is upon us here in the US. If you have some free time this holiday weekend, be sure to check out the latest version LunchBox now available through the Dynamo Package ManagerThe...
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Migrating my LunchBox to Dynamo 0.7
Dynamo has been undergoing some significant transformations as of late. The yellow/orange color is gone, there are some nice UI/UX enhancements, and... most significantly, the program has been...
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Buy This Book
Karen Kensek and Doug Nobel, professors at USC, put together an impressive list of contributors to their new book entitled Building Information Modeling: BIM in Current and Future Practice. The book...
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CASE Learning: Dynamo Essentials
CASE's Dynamo for Revit workshop... new and improved!Dynamo is growing up so quickly that it is sometimes hard to keep up. In this last year, the development team has completely refactored of the...
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Introducing RHYNAMO: Apply for BETA Testing!
Demoing Rhynamo for the Central States BIM workshopI just finished up a string of presentations at the Central States BIM Workshops hosted here in Omaha. I announced a private beta for a new Dynamo...
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Catch Me If You Can
Fall is usually a hot mess for conferences, workshops, and speaking engagements........2014 is no different.ACADIA 2014It has been awhile since I have attended an ACADIA conference... the last one I...
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Rhynamo - An Open Source Project
Coding Rhynamo from my hotel room at The Standard in Los AngelesIf you who were paying attention to my Twitter feed During ACADIA, you may have caught that I made a special announcement regarding...
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Get the Rhynamo Package!
Get Rhynamo now through the Dynamo package managerRhynamo is now an official Dynamo package... freely available to the public! I am still putting the finishing touches on the source code repository...
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Slingshot! for Dynamo Update
Introduce some SQL into DynamoIt was about time something was done about the version of Slingshot! that has been collecting dust on the Dynamo package manager.... A year ago, the Slingshot package...
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Rhynamo is Open Source!
Rhynamo: An Open Source Tool for Reading and Writing Rhino files with DynamoOn behalf of CASE, I am happy to announce that the source code for Rhynamo has been published to BitBucket.org. Rhynamo is...
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Parametric Forms for Dynamo with LunchBox
I have had a long standing fondness for parametric forms and surfaces that I thought it was about time I re-introduced some of them into the LunchBox package for Dynamo. The Grasshopper plug-in...
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Rhynamo - Refactored and Data-centric
The new version of Rhynamo exposes new data from 3DM files There is much more to Rhino files than NURBS geometry. This latest release of Rhynamo extends the users ability to access different data and...
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Rhynamo and LunchBox Updates
LunchBox element collectors now have toggle inputs to better control updates with Revit.The end of the winter is near (I hope!)... I've already started my spring cleaning by addressing some new...
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University of Nebraska - Computational Design with Dynamo & Revit
UNL - Computational Design with Dynamo. A 3-session 'mini-course'This spring semester, I taught a 3-session mini-course at UNL focused on computational design with Dynamo and Revit. Like the...
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LunchBox - New Rationalization Nodes and Panel Improvements
"Planarize Points" node will project a collection of points to a common plane.A new release of LunchBox for Dynamo has been posted to the package manager. In this release, I made modifications to the...
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CASE Interoperability Update
CASE's interoperability framework makes important design data accessible among different technologies.It has been awhile since I have shared an update on CASE interoperability approach. With new...
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Back to 'Basics' with LunchBox and Dynamo
Divide a surface to get points, normals, planes, and curvature.With the rapid expansion of Dynamo, it is easy to overlook the fact that there are still many "smaller" refinements that can be made to...
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Integrating XML with Dynamo via LunchBox
New LunchBox nodes for XML creation and importingIn the latest released of LunchBox for Dynamo, I have included new XML nodes that allow exporting and parsing. Dynamo data can be serialized and saved...
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A New Proving Ground
Greetings friends,It has been over 8 years since I started TheProvingGround.org, in 2007. It began as a journal for exploring the intersection of design and technology. From there it grew into a...
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LunchBox for Grasshopper Returns!
I am pleased to announced that a new version of LunchBox for Grasshopper has been released as a free download in the new ProvingGround.io website. It has been over a year since the last update and...
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Updates You May Have Missed
With my new business keeping me busy, I haven't had as much time as I would like to keep TheProvingGround.org as up to date as I would like. Make no mistake, I am still very much committed to keeping...
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UNL Architecture Courses - Towerpalooza!
A series of spring technology courses at UNL have concluded this past month. I taught two parallel courses in parametric modeling and computation for BIM for undergraduate and graduate architecture...
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