Workshops - Computational Design Workshops

Initiate

Modelling concepts

Our free Introduction to Dynamo guide is a documentation-based, online walkthrough that introduces basic-to-intermediate visual programming. Build a parametric model from Revit elements with Dynamo and pick up the computational-thinking foundations everything else builds on.

• Computational thinking & procedural modelling
• Parameter space and data management
• Lists, lacing and indexing
• Building parametric Revit geometry

Innovate

Computational design

Advanced visual-programming techniques to build a fully parametric model from Revit elements, and a clear understanding of how Revit and Dynamo communicate. Six steps build an elliptical spiral stair, each adding new procedural-modelling concepts.

• Functions, lists, lacing and indexing
• Solids, surfaces and direct shapes
• Reading and writing Revit parameters
• Dynamic family placement
• Extending Dynamo with packages

Pioneer

Python + the Revit API

Unlock Dynamo's full power with Python and the Revit API. Across three parts covering Python fundamentals, the Revit API and packaging custom nodes, you'll write automation that's impossible with nodes alone.

• Python syntax, libraries and definitions
• Interfacing with the Revit API
• Filtered Element Collector and parameter data
• Automating room and tag creation
• Publishing custom node packages

Getting Started with Rhino.Inside

For AutoCAD + Civil 3D

A self-paced, online-only walkthrough covering the very basics of running Rhino and Grasshopper inside AutoCAD, from installation to launching both apps and exchanging geometry, finishing with a first baking example.

• Installing Rhino.Inside AutoCAD
• The Rhino geometry preview
• Opening Grasshopper inside AutoCAD
• Geometry exchange and baking

Rhino.Inside in Practice

For AutoCAD + Civil 3D

A free, 90-minute live demonstration of Rhino.Inside running inside AutoCAD and Civil 3D, built around everyday drafting workflows. Watch Grasshopper drive AutoCAD directly: placing geometry and blocks, creating dimensions and layouts, selecting and modifying existing text and geometry, and parametric constraints that update the drawing live from a slider.

• Placing geometry and block references from Grasshopper
• Creating dimensions and layouts automatically
• Selecting and modifying existing text and geometry
• Parametric constraints updating AutoCAD live from a slider

Computational Design First Steps

For AutoCAD

Your first step into computational design, for AutoCAD users who can already find their way around Grasshopper. A guided exercise builds computational-design thinking from first principles while deepening the Grasshopper skills you have, then puts both to work on practical modelling tasks driven live into AutoCAD with Rhino.Inside.

• Computational-design thinking from first principles
• Deepening the Grasshopper skills you already have
• The AutoCAD document model, filters and baking
• A live attractor pattern driven by a slider
• Block references populated from curve data

Rhino MCP

Convert Grasshopper definitions into MCP

Make the most of MCP (the Model Context Protocol) for Grasshopper and Rhino without giving up the definitions you've spent years building. Using our plugin and MCP server, wrap an existing definition as a tool an LLM can call in natural language.

• What MCP is and why it matters for designers
• Anatomy of an MCP tool: inputs, outputs, descriptions
• Wiring a definition into a callable tool
• Connecting an LLM client and calling it
• Data and geometry exchange, testing and limits

RAG for AEC Data

How to set up a RAG for your AEC data

Ground a language model in your own documents to support real AEC tasks across design, specification and compliance. Build a simple but accurate RAG from scratch over the UK Building Regulations, with attention to what makes it trustworthy.

• How retrieval-augmented generation works
• Ingesting, parsing and chunking documents
• Embeddings and a vector store
• Grounded answers with source citations
• Evaluating quality and mitigating hallucination