AEC | Product Development - BimorphNodes for Dynamo
BimorphNodes is a high-performance C# library engineered to bypass the computational limits of standard visual scripting. A top 10 most downloaded package, it serves as a critical toolkit for the global AEC community, delivering infrastructure for clash detection, data extraction, and geometry processing that is orders of magnitude faster than native tools.
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- Bimorph
- Timeline
- 2016 - Present
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The Engineering Challenge
BimorphNodes was developed to address critical performance bottlenecks and capability gaps in Dynamo workflows for Revit. As BIM coordination and automation requirements grew more complex, existing Dynamo tools struggled with the computational demands of clash detection, geometry intersections, and CAD conversion at scale.
Traditional Dynamo nodes implemented in Python were too slow for production-scale clash detection, often taking hours to process complex coordination scenarios. Additionally, extracting CAD data from linked files required exploding the source documents, destroying their integrity and creating workflow bottlenecks for teams managing hundreds of CAD references.
The Solution Architecture
The breakthrough came with the development of ultra-efficient clash detection and intersection algorithms, implemented in high-performance C# rather than Python. By leveraging direct access to the Revit API and implementing optimized spatial indexing techniques, these nodes reduce processing times by up to 99.5% compared to traditional techniques - turning hours-long operations into seconds.
Beyond performance, BimorphNodes pioneered the ability to extract and convert CAD data directly from linked or imported files using layer names as filters. This non-destructive approach preserves the integrity of source documents while enabling automated CAD-to-BIM conversion workflows. The package also introduced advanced LinkElement capabilities and sheet automation tools, providing a comprehensive toolkit for computational design in Revit.
The Result
With consistent top-10 ranking among Dynamo packages and over 330,000 downloads, BimorphNodes has become an essential toolkit for the AEC industry. The package supports Revit 2019 through 2026 and all language versions, ensuring accessibility for the global BIM community.
The performance improvements have enabled entirely new coordination workflows that were previously impractical due to computation time. Teams can now perform real-time clash detection on complex projects, automate CAD conversion at scale, and build sophisticated sheet production systems - all within Dynamo workflows that were impossible before BimorphNodes.
- Top 10
- Most downloaded package
- 99.5%
- Faster clash detection
- 2019 - 2026
- Revit versions supported