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Computational Design,  Generative Design,  Mechanical Design,  MEP & Structural Fabrication,  Software Development

What happens when some enthusiastic Software Developers team up with a few cutting-edge Mechanical Designers?
Henderson Engineers, an MEP design firm, has been working on developing a modular DFMA Air Duct system for a while now, and had developed some clever Revit families and Dynamo scripts to help their designers model them. They joined forces with EvolveLAB, a BIM consulting and software development company, to create a Revit Add-In that focuses on the real-time generative design of these modular duct layouts.
In this session, we’ll review how these companies utilized some unique properties of the Revit API to create a co-authoring system which allows a mechanical design to sketch out a main duct layout in Revit, while the computer simultaneous (and continually) produces the most optimal layout using the DFMA kit of parts for that sketch, which is then finalized and converted into a fully-connected Revit Duct System.

Autogenerating and Optimizing Modular Air Duct Layouts in Revit

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What happens when some enthusiastic Software Developers team up with a few cutting-edge Mechanical Designers?
Henderson Engineers, an MEP design firm, has been 

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Autogenerating and Optimizing Modular Air Duct Layouts in Revit