Hummingbird

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Hummingbird is a set of Grasshopper components that facilitate the creation of Revit native geometry. This process utilizes a simplied pseudo-language in Excel to describe many properties of the Revit BIM geometry. Translating Rhino primative geometry to Revit has been vastly simplified without the need for linking or reference objects. This allows for the downstream Revit model to be modified and adapted for the project duration

Website: http://ghhummingbird.wordpress.com/
Location: San Francisco
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Latest Activity: May 12

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Hummingbird and Revit2013 in Windows 8

Hello all!Anyone tried to use WF ModelBuilder on Windows 8 + Revit 2013, and was successful at that?For all I researched, it seems like a dead end, due to .NET 4.0 which comes pre-installed with…Continue

Started by Daniel da Rocha Mar 25.

Hummingbird Update - New Level Component

New updates to the Hummingbird component set have been published. The update includes one new component:LevelThe Level component will generate Revit Levels based on the given height and name. The…Continue

Started by Tim Meador Dec 11, 2012.

Chicago Facades + Innovation 1 Reply

Hello Mario and Tim, I recently saw you guys mentioned in this workshop (see below.) 3. FACADE PATTERNING: Translation from Grasshopper into Revit This workshop will introduce a variety of patterning…Continue

Started by Matthew Owens. Last reply by Tim Meador Dec 4, 2012.

Hummingbird Update - Topo surfaces and Mass Families 1 Reply

New updates to the Hummingbird component set have been published. The update includes two new components:TopoSurfaceMassFamilyTopo surface will generate a Revit topo surface from a list of points in…Continue

Started by Tim Meador. Last reply by first1 Nov 29, 2012.

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Comment by Armando Montejano on July 18, 2012 at 5:44pm: Mario and Tim, Run Excel and Rhino as Administrator, nothing (well the same thing blinking, etc). In the Excel file no new tabs are generated, just the default 3 sheets. And at last GrasshopperUnloadPlugin, Same result. My only hope is install the WhiteFeet complete, from Mario's webpage, because It was manually placed as say in documentation.

Thanks

Comment by Mario Guttman on July 18, 2012 at 1:11pm: I have uploaded new versions of "WfRevitModelBuilder.dll" (R2012) and "WhiteFeet.RevitModelBuilder.dll" (R2013). These fix a problem where it wasn't finding all of the adaptive components to display in the defaults list box.

Comment by Mario Guttman on July 18, 2012 at 1:06pm: Armondo, One other thing to try:

Comment by Mario Guttman on July 17, 2012 at 3:04pm: By "right tab" I just meant that I couldn't read the tab name in your screen shot. If a random tab is current in Excel when the program runs I don't think Excel will change tabs. Be sure to look at the tab named by the Rhino-GH program to see if there is any data there.

Comment by Tim Meador on July 17, 2012 at 1:37pm: Armando, try running excel as administrator as well.

Comment by Armando Montejano on July 17, 2012 at 12:01pm: Hello Mario,

No phantom session in the Task Manager, and I do not see any right tab in Excel.

The only thing that I'm thinking could be interrupting the process is that I use to work my spreadsheets with libreoffice a version of openoffice. I installed Microsoft Office 2010 in order to work with Hummingbird plug in, maybe something is interfering but I'm not sure.

Comment by Mario Guttman on July 17, 2012 at 11:02am: Armando, Check in the Task Manager that there are no phantom sessions of Excel running. Per Tim's comment, start Excel with the Excel file open before running Rhino-GH. By the way, are you looking at the right tab in Excel?

Comment by Armando Montejano on July 17, 2012 at 10:36am: By the way, nice example first1

Comment by Armando Montejano on July 17, 2012 at 10:34am: Hi Tim, same result if the excel file is open prior to define the path, or opened after, the only difference is the behavior of the Windows task bar, in the first case, when the xlsx file is opened before establish the path, the open xlsx file blinks on the task bar. In the second case, defining the path without have the excel file opened, the windows task bar appears and then hides again.

Another test I tried is run Rhino under Administrator mode, in this case something interesting happens, when the xlsx file is opened before establish the path, after define the path, an excel window pups up saying that the file is all ready open, with the option to open it in Read Mode, but in any case same result, no Data in the excel file.

Thanks in advance