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

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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 Carrey on April 23, 2013 at 9:15pm: How should i change the default unit feet to meter or millimetter?

Comment by Advait on April 16, 2013 at 3:45am: hi, I am unable to download hummingbird from link given above can anyone provide me the software?

Comment by Darren Chang on March 8, 2013 at 2:25pm: I'm trying to convert a curve from Rhino to REVIT using the Lines Component. It gave me an error message like below in REVIT. Does a curve must be in a horizontal plane in order to be converted using Hummingbird? I also tried to convert the subdividing points of the curve as Ref Points, but the error message first told me it must be in a Family Editor, and then told me it can't be converted in the given context, while I was in Family Editor. This is also very confusing.

Comment by first1 on February 27, 2013 at 6:37pm: Hey Darren Chang ，all the model data divide by 304.8 ,it can convert FEET to MILLIMETTER.

Comment by Tim Meador on February 27, 2013 at 3:11pm: Hi Darren,

Unfortunately the Revit api is based on feet so we are stuck doing everything in imperial units.

Comment by Darren Chang on February 27, 2013 at 3:03pm: Hey, it seems the default unit in Hummingbird/WF Model Builder is FEET. Is there a way I can convert it to METER or MILLIMETTER?

Comment by Darren Chang on February 27, 2013 at 10:38am: Tim, my office just installed Rhino5 last week. I tried the new version, and it worked! Thanks!

Comment by Tim Meador on February 26, 2013 at 4:31pm: Hi Darren,

Thanks for the post, Please check that you are running the latest version of Hummingbird. This was a bug that was fixed in the latest version 1.0.0.6.

Comment by Darren Chang on February 26, 2013 at 3:51pm: Hi, just started using Hummingbird on some tower project. I was trying to convert a series of closed curves from Rhino to Revit. Each close curve is formed by eight arcs, four on the corners and four on the edges, like below

After I Import from Excel to Elements, instead of getting four arcs on the edge, I got the reverse of the arcs, while the corner arcs look fine, like below:

Does anybody know what the problem is? Thanks in advance.

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Comment by Mario Guttman on November 9, 2012 at 1:22pm: Re comment by Matthew Owens: We are considering doing something about units but it is a fairly low priority. It seems to me that it is pretty simple to just convert them in Rhino before you write them out. If I try to do that for you it may just make things more confusing.

You shouldn’t really have to work in Excel unless you want to. If the Hummingbird Grasshopper plug-ins are used the Excel syntax should be correct. (I’d like to see an example if there is a problem with this.)

There may be some problems with the ModelBuilder hanging if the curves being provided (to a floor, for example) are not closed. Also, a loop cannot consist of a single curve (so break circles into two arcs, for example.) There may also be some odd behavior around the use of nurbs vs hermite splines. One way of approaching these problems is to copy the tab in Excel and delete everything except a single item so you can see where the problem is. If you have an item that is failing post it and I’ll see if I can figure out what is happening.