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Comment by Hiroshi Jacobs on July 25, 2012 at 6:20am

Thanks Nate. I will try to accommodate when things slow down. Glad to know you have some workarounds though. The first request should be fairly easy.  The second I'm not sure I totally understand but it sounds like you want Grasshopper to know what parameters exist in the Revit family?  I think that can be done but it's a bit harder to do in a seamless, no-fuss way - i.e. without adding more steps to the process.

Hiroshi

Comment by Nate Holland on July 24, 2012 at 9:11am

Hiroshi,

I've come across a few requests for the plug in. I've mostly been using Chameleon to update curtain wall panels in Revit.

I built a fairly complex unitized curtain panel that I've been driving with grasshopper. When I try to pass 900 panels to grasshopper along with all of their geometry the process gets painstakingly slow. I've worked around this by swapping the panels to a glazed unit (a simple box) when I pass them to GH and then reverting to my custom curtain panel when I pass the data back from grasshopper. Is there anyway that you can pass just the GUID and a centerpoint/conerpoint from Revit to reduce the geometry grasshopper has to deal with?

Also, I'm currently passing 6-8 parameters back to Revit each time I update the panels. I have troubles remembering which order I put the parameters in sometimes which will often break the Revit curtain panel after a lengthy update. Is there any chance you could add a method for assigning which parameters are affected from the GH end?

Thanks,

Nate

Comment by first1 on July 23, 2012 at 8:59am

Great ! Armando.

Comment by Armando Montejano on July 20, 2012 at 5:17pm

Hello every one,

Just want to thank Hiroshi for good piece of software, here is my workflow to create "complex" Walls in Revit using chameleon the adaptive component.

Basic form for 4 walls to be created in Revit, there are 4 curves surfaces, and are divided with LunchBox Grid Tool.

Exported as adaptive components linked with the flowing families made of adaptive reference splines

this one for the first 3 walls

This one for the end one.

In Revit as adaptive Generic Models.

In Revit as walls by face

Comment by bbgn on June 27, 2012 at 6:35am

Thanks Hiroshi. I did figure it out. However, it looks like it only works for the Curtain Wall Panel templates. I tried using general adaptive component on Revit 2012 and the parameters did not appear.

 

I have the most recent release of your plug in (downloaded two days ago)

Comment by Hiroshi Jacobs on June 26, 2012 at 10:14am

Thanks bbgn.  The adaptive component needs an "number" parameter defined in it, and it may need to be an instance parameter as well.  Make sure you have that set in Revit before using the command.

Comment by bbgn on June 26, 2012 at 9:49am

Hi Hiroshi, I have been testing out the chameleon plugins. They're great and I can see lots of potential.

 

I have been having trouble getting the "Number" parameters to show up (i.e. the prompts in the menu) when you Place Adaptive Component on the Revit side. Is there a trick to this on the Revit end as you define your adaptive component?

Comment by maya88 on June 23, 2012 at 5:40am

VERSION 0.3.1.7 – Released 06/19/2012 ， cool！ 

Comment by Jeramy Woosung Yoon on June 20, 2012 at 12:08pm

Hi Hiroshi~

Comment by Hiroshi Jacobs on June 19, 2012 at 12:56pm

New Chameleon release today to fix the bug when trying to edit multiple parameters in a Revit family.

http://www.hilojacobs.com/?page_id=464

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