Dynamo 0.5.3 Update

The development team behind Dynamo, the visual programming environment for BIM, are busy little bees and have released a couple of builds since I last posted about this product...

0.5.3

July 2013

Fixes

• XYZ Array on Curve returns a point on the end
• Conditional node improvements
• Copy Paste notes now works
• Loft node fixes (now takes non-planar curves)
• Reference Point by Normal and Distance
• Fixes for Get Paramter node
• fixed case sensativity issue with Forumla node
• fixed crash with Create node from selection functionality
• fixes for Drop and Take nodes
• Angle node now saves properly
• Removed lacing for Get and Remove from List nodes

New

• Select Elements nodes (box select any collection of Revit Elements)
• Search Bar is more expandable
• Double Click edit for all editable nodes
• Node Renaming (edit the visible name in a node instance)
• Axonometric View Creation
• New Tutorials on https://github.com/ikeough/Dynamo/wiki/Learning-Dynamo
• Open Maipulate and Save Excel files
• Save View node
• e Node
• Formula node recognizes Pi
• Number node now supports sequences and range inputs
• True for All and True For Any nodes
• Tooltips for Custom Node inputs
• Apply Function to List node
• Remove from List, Remove Every Nth, Shift List Indeces nodes
• Project Point on Face works for Planes now
• Equal Distance XYZs on Curve node
• Get Active View Node
• Smooth Node (running average for a numberical output)

0.5.2
July 2013

Fixes

• UV Grid improvements
• Particle System and Dynamic Relaxation improvements
• Delete for notes
• Formula node is now case insensitive
• Watch and Watch 3d improvments
• Zoom and workspace tabbing
• Length node culture formatting
• Fixed rectangle node
• Custom node fixes
• Multi-output node fixes

New

• Structural Framing nodes
• More List management nodes, Flatten changes, Repeat node
• More Math Nodes
• Node alignment tools
• Best Fit Plane, Best Fit Arc
• Number Slider state display
• Last computed value is now displayed on nodes with mouse-over
• Zoom state saved with workspaces
• More nodes for using Analysis Visualization Framework (model coloring)
• Color Nodes (Hue, Brightness, Saturation, etc)
• Better node error state reporting
• Curves Through Points node
• Find Nodes from Selected Elements
• Watch node shows index of list members
• Tooltips in search

There's more information available on the Buildz blog.