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Permalink Reply by Hiroshi Jacobs on May 13, 2012 at 11:55am

Agreed, great to see that the GH community is not afraid of this connection! I'm also happy to see lots of different methods of communication between the two programs, the last thing we need is one "official" methodology!

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on May 15, 2012 at 2:28am

Hiroshi, while I agree that its great that there are so many ways to do it, maybe there are some common things that can be shared amongst the tools that are available in GH?

Permalink Reply by Hiroshi Jacobs on May 15, 2012 at 6:10pm

Hi Luis, I'm not sure what you mean. Which things are you referring to?

Permalink Reply by Muthahar on May 31, 2012 at 3:55am

Have been a rhino user for 4 years until i hit upon Revit. now, having also used BIM for the past 4 years since, my observations are as follow -

1. while GH has a strong focus in recursive actions, this is a small but significant area where it could come handy. There are boring items such as Door Schedules to update, and Grasshopper will trump in cutting down the man-hours.

2. Grasshopper could help with building components such as Curtain Walling - which, although quite efficient for its own purpose within Revit Architecture, still lack the ability to be designed at complete will.

3. I tend to disagree with the one-sided workflow from GH and Revit. It will really limit the capabilities of both the products. I don't assume that GH will understand the building elements, but once a script is run, it should still be in a position to take in some of the resulting form and manipulate it.

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on May 31, 2012 at 4:03am

Hi Muthahar,

1. while GH has a strong focus in recursive actions, ....

not wishing to seem pedantic, but native GH is more about repetition than recursion.

My favorite quote "To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion". In GH there is no mechanism that allows resulting data to be fed back into the definition to be run again, and again, and again.