Chameleon

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CHAMELEON

Chameleon is a plugin for both Grasshopper and Revit with a focus on interoperability, simulation, and efficient practice workflows. Chameleon’s main advantage is its ability to facilitate easy transfer of geometric data between Grasshopper and Autodesk Revit, but also includes other valuable tools to make life easier, both in Grasshopper and Revit.

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Chameleon Tutorials or Step by step instructions? 1 Reply

Does anyone have a good tutorial link or written instructions for how to set up the adaptive components in Revit so that I can then use Chameleon to bring customized geometry from grasshopper to rvt?…Continue

Started by Kyle. Last reply by Jesper Hildebrandt Andersen on Tuesday.

Installation instructions for Vasari 1 Reply

Hi Everyone. I'm getting a lot of questions about how to install Chameleon for Vasari. Here are the instructions:1. Install Chameleon for Revit2.Copy the files here:…Continue

Started by Hiroshi Jacobs. Last reply by Hong Young Park Apr 23.

New Version! 2 Replies

I finally released a new version of Chameleon today. The main update is that now the Place AC component returns the Revit ID's of the placed adaptive components.…Continue

Started by Hiroshi Jacobs. Last reply by Armando Montejano Apr 17.

gh to revit 3 Replies

rhino 5.0 beta gh 0.9.0014 and revit 2013 the bug!!!

Started by maya88. Last reply by Gabriele Mar 12.

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Comment by Jesper Hildebrandt Andersen on Tuesday: Any had luck with having it run on revit 2014 ?

Comment by SudhirBommu on May 13, 2013 at 3:04am: Hi,

I am facing some problem with gbxml import component, i am on gh build 0.9.0014. "Input string was not in correct format".

Is it a version problem ?

Thanks,

Sudhir

Comment by patric guenther on February 6, 2013 at 3:57pm: the gh place adaptive component is not working in my revit 2013 version. is there already a solution?

Comment by kwanphil cho on December 18, 2012 at 9:17am: Sorry guys if this question has been answered. I am fairly new to Chameleon. I am trying to import customized revit family into Grasshopper. Can anyone guide me a bit? Thanks

Comment by Nate Holland on October 22, 2012 at 8:33am: Marc,

I've had that issue a few times, usually it happens for one of 2 reasons. 1. You've deleted one of the components in Revit and Chameleon doesn't know how to find the ID. 2. You didn't pass the correct number of points/number params from Grasshopper. Use the Param Viewer to check all of your inputs into the Revit Edit Params component to make sure the count and tree structure is consistent.

Comment by Marc Teer on October 10, 2012 at 5:34pm: Hiroshi-

I'm not having any luck going round trip from acquiring an adaptive component, and then pushing changes to that ac's instance parameters back into revit. When I push new instance parameter values into Revit it throws an error and doesn't change the parameter values. Your documentation says that this only works for Curtain Panels, so I'm assuming this error is consistent with your plugin's current limitations. Is that a good assumption?

Thanks-

Marc

Comment by sun zheng on October 3, 2012 at 5:52am: I cannot install Chameleon on Revit 2012 or 2013. When Revit starts, it says:Failed to initialize the add in Chameleon becase the assembly "Realease\ChameleonRVT.dll" does not exist. I checked the path"C documents and settings\""""""\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2012\Release\ChameleonRVT.dll", it does exist.

Anyone knows why?

Comment by Armando Montejano on October 1, 2012 at 9:33am: Nate,

Thanks for the clarifying, by my side I'll be searching for a solution.

Cheers

Comment by Billie Allen on October 1, 2012 at 9:26am: Nate,

Hiroshi actually performed the analysis on a mass family in a .rvt file (project) while in vasari. You just need to load your mass family into an .rvt file, and run the analysis. Hope this helps.

-Bill

Comment by Nate Holland on October 1, 2012 at 9:12am: Armando,

I should clarify my last post. I manually placed the adaptive component into the mass family, by clicking the points. I have yet to find a way to get geometry generated by chameleon into a mass family that will allow me to run Vasari analysis.

Also, Hiroshi,

I tried to transfer a Vasari lofted mass into GH, but found that even on relatively simple lofts with double curved faces, the meshing took too long to transfer effectively. Is there a way to control how many faces the geometry has when its passed from Vasari to GH?