By: Colin McCrone

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Dynamobotics @ 2014 AEC Hackathon

Dynamo made several appearances at this year's AEC Symposium and Hackathon in New York City, including one Hackathon project called "DynaRobo." A 5-member team—Dynamo's own principal engineer Ian Keough (whom we like to let outside at least a few times a year), Brian Ringley of NYCCTfab, Jeremy Luebker of NRI, Ronnie Parsons of Mode Lab, and me,

FormIt + Dynamo

I bought an iPad recently, and I started playing around with Autodesk's new, free conceptual modeling program, FormIt.  I first saw FormIt on the iPad about a year ago, and while I am really impressed with the ability to model 3D geometry through a touch-only interface—it's also really fun—I never owned an iPad before two weeks ago, and I f

Units in 0.6.3

Dynamo 0.6.3 now includes units—lengths, areas, and volumes—in addition to the more traditional, naked numbers.  Here's what you need to know. Dynamo units vs. Revit units Some Revit users may know that Revit's internal units are imperial.  Revit was originally developed in the United States, where we are still quite fond of our feet,

Solving a Spatial Problem with Dynamo: The Torggler Door

Earlier this year, an artist's new model for a door became wildly popular on social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook.  And rightfully so--it's pretty cool.  And I want one in my apartment!  It looks so simple, but it might not be immediately obvious how to wrap your head around how it works.  The artist's name is Klemens Torggler.  He'