Conveyor Tutorials

In this video, we provide a general introduction to the Conveyor workflow. This video demonstrates the following…

• Exporting existing Revit levels and grids into Rhino.
• Sketching free-form floor elements in Rhino with floor classifications.
• Importing the Rhino floor geometry into Revit as a native floor.
• Changing the floors in Rhino and updating them in Revit.
• Creating a Rhino free-form solid and importing it into Revit as a Mass – Creating a Revit schedule to list imports.

This video covers a few options for taking geometry created in Rhino and translating it into Revit. This video covers:

• Setting up your Rhino file for transferring geometry.
• Converting geometry into Revit as individual direct shapes.
• Setting up a Rhino block and converting it to sing Revit direct shape.
• Importing the Rhino block as a Revit family.

This video demonstrates how to use Rhino blocks and instances and translate them to native Revit families with instances using Conveyor. This video shows:

• A Rhino file with two block definitions for a unitized curtain wall.
• Using Conveyor to translate the Rhino blocks to Revit families
• Using Conveyor to place instances of the Rhino blocks in a Revit project.
• Discusses the use of subcategories and material settings on blocks.
• Shows how resultant Revit families contain native Free Form geometry.

Conveyor allows users to create “hidden edge” meshes within Revit. This video discusses common limitations of meshes with Revit and shows how Conveyor can be used to import clean mesh geometry that can be used in the BIM workflow. This video covers:

• Common limitations of importing meshes into Revit.
• Example of importing a Rhino mesh into Revit using Conveyor.
• Demonstration of cutting the imported mesh in 3D and in plan Revit views.

Conveyor comes with a Rhino data management interface called Semantic. This tutorial covers the basics of defining custom Rhino properties for objects and demonstrates how this data can be transferred to Revit. The video covers:

• Defining custom numeric and categorical properties on Rhino geometry.
• Creating tabular data queries that are live-linked to Rhino geometry.
• Importing floors with data properties into Revit and creating a Revit schedule.

This video discusses how to use Conveyor’s Grasshopper tools to create and control Revit-based Adaptive Component Families. This video covers the following topics:

• Using the Conveyor Adaptive tools in Grasshopper.
• Preparing Grasshopper data for Revit translation.
• Using Conveyor to place Adaptive Components.
• Changing the Grasshopper parameters and updating the Revit Adaptive Components.

In this video, we review how to setup a Grasshopper definition to translate Levels and Floors into Revit. Grasshopper is used to parametrically control floor surfaces. The objects are imported to Revit and then updated from Grasshopper.

• Setting up the Levels Conveyor component.
• Setting up the Floors Conveyor component.
• Importing Grasshopper objects into Revit.
• Updating the Grasshopper objects with Revit.

In this video, we review how to use Conveyor’s Grasshopper components to manage the transfer of Blocks into Revit. Rhino Grasshopper components can be used to create block definitions and instances and transfer them to Revit.

• Establish a Block definition using Grasshopper.
• Establish Block instances using Grasshopper.
• Import Block definitions and instances into Revit as Family elements.
• Update the Block definitions and instances in Revit.