WeeklyDynamo: Generative Design and Dynamo for AEC

I had built the same layer six times without noticing. Over the past few years a knowledge graph kept appearing inside otherwise unrelated work. It turned up as a routing viewer for one client, as a layout explorer for another, as a word map I use for teaching, as a live add-in that watches a Revit model while somebody edits it, and as a governance layer over a personal vault of notes. Each one was built for its own reason on its own schedule, and not one of them borrowed a line of code from the others. Last week I stopped and opened all of them at the same time. The trigger was a complaint I had about my own tooling, and the complaint had three parts: none of these tools handled bulk, none of them offered more than one way of looking at the same data, and none of them showed the process by which an answer was reached. I wanted to know whether the fix was a new tool or something I already owned without having collected it. This post is the audit, and the short version is that the sp...

Every BIM class I teach runs into the same wall. The vocabulary is not the difficult part, because IFC, ISO 19650, level of development, the common data environment, clash detection and digital twins are all terms that people can define on request. The difficulty is that almost nobody can show how those terms connect to each other on a single page, so each one arrives as an isolated fact and the shape of the field never appears. So I built the page. It is one map of BIM containing 73 terms, 92 relations and 8 clusters, and it exists in Korean and in English with the same structure on both sides. This post shows the map, explains why the clusters are cut the way they are, and then covers the two rounds of tool updates that building the map forced me to make. One page of BIM Solid outline means a person confirmed the term. Dashed outline means the term is still an unreviewed AI draft. At the moment exactly one term out of 73 is confirmed, and the legend prints that accounting in...