Geometry
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I mentioned last time that I was expecting to publish some posts about Autodesk University 2019 material I found particularly compelling (now that I've had the chance to consume some). I didn't get to watch as many recordings as I'd have liked – for now – but I did manage to watch the rest of […]
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As promised last week, Autodesk Research has now posted v0.2 of our Space Analysis package to the Dynamo Package Manager. This version contains nodes for pathfinding as well as for visibility analysis. Both implementations work via a common SpaceLattice object – basically a 2D grid with diagonal connections – that can be used to drive […]
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It's time to talk about a little project I started over the holiday break: connecting Project Refinery – the optimization engine for Dynamo that will help drive Generative Design workflows – to Virtual Reality. It's a project I've been thinking about for some time, now, and was originally inspired by two things: the workflow Van […]
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It's been a quiet week on the blogging front, mainly because of the May 1st holiday on Tuesday, but also because I've been heads-down on projects I can't really talk much about. One thing that does seem worth sharing is an approach we've been using to take geometry from Dynamo into Revit. The project itself […]
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If my calculations are correct, I'll be in Singapore during this year's Autodesk University in Las Vegas. It's the first I'll have missed for many years – and it's going to feel more than a little strange, when that week comes along – but this trip (and my family) will be taking precedence, for once. […]
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I'm sure some of you will be relieved to see I can still (more or less) manage to write code for AutoCAD… the last few days I've been feeling quite under-the-weather, so today's post is a little bit of "comfort code": sometimes while you're brain is struggling to handle the unfamiliar, it's very happy to […]
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On Saturday I gave a couple of VR presentations at Micro16, an exhibition and conference held at Microcity, a (relatively) new technical hub in Neuchatel that houses part of EPFL. [I always pronounce Microcity with stress on the second syllable, much as Will Ferrel does when pronouncing "Metrocity" in the movie Megamind (so that it […]
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Over the last few days we've held Autodesk's first internal, global Hackathon. I started off by not wanting to join a team – I did sign up as an "evangelist", which it turns out means I'm also a judge – but in the end I decided to create a simple HoloLens application. And then Jeremy […]
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In the last post we saw a simple command that connects a block with a curve via a line that starts at the insertion point and meets the curve at its closest point. In this post we're going to see how we can search the modelspace for the nearest curve and connect each block to […]
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A question came into the LISP forum during Wednesday's Answer Day. It related to a really interesting task: to take certain blocks in a drawing and connect them to the closest polyline via a perpendicular line. It took me a little while to understand, but basically the problem relates to pipeline design: there are gully […]