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Grasshopper is an awesome plugin for rhino which lets us customize the design using programmatic nodes. It is the best design conceptualization tool that I've found. There are few other similar software's like dynamo for Revit, Para 3d for 3ds max, but they all have their own limitations. But grasshopper is limited to your imagination and a little bit of understanding the plugin itself. Once you get the hand of the user interface and the nodes, you can almost design anything you want. But, often times we might want to compare between alternative options of our own design. So going through each node and changing the values is time taking. So Grasshopper allows you to save the values/state of the nodes  so that you can revert back to them with just a single click. In the following example, I've got a simplistic script for a twisting tower where I want to compare between to alternatives. So I set the values of the 1st alternate and save it at Solution> Save state ,

In my previous post, I have explained how we can use the Visibility/Graphics Override window to customize the graphics and visibility settings of all the objects and categories. So using those methods we can change the colors, thickness, line types of grid lines(or any other) to our necessity. To change the color of the grid line, select one of the grid lines and click edit type in the properties window and change the " End Segment color ". This will change the colors of all the grid lines. To change the color of the Grid heads(bubbles), go to object styles from visibility graphics)shortcut VG) Visibility/Graphics window In the Object Styles window go to, annotation categories and find Grid head &change the line color Object Styles window This only changes the color of the lines, to change the color of the text, go to project browser > Families and find Grid Head - circle . (M is just a suffix for metric family).  Right-click and select edit

At times we might want to change the colors of various lines, categories with the model. The well known and easily foundable way for this is using the properties window. But, selecting each and every object and changing their properties can be ver tedious. So Autodesk has provided us with a  single window called " Visibility/Graphics Override " which can be found in View > Graphics > Visibility/Graphics or can simply be accessed using "VG or VV" shortcut key. This post focuses on model & annotation categories. Head to the following post to change the graphics of Object Styles . Visibility/Graphics Location Visibility/Graphics window Once you have made the necessary changes to the visibility/graphics of the view, you can save it as a view template, so that you can apply the same settings to multiple other views. The VG window can be used to change the visibility/graphics settings of any type of elements that exists in the Revit project. Y

Autodesk has given us many new updates with the new Revit 2018 release. One of the very useful updates of such is the " Multi-storey " settings of the stairs. If you have used Revit (2015 and later) for a while, you must be familiar with the multi-storey option available to simply create a single stair(core) for all the floors. But it had an issue if the floors are of different heights. So the new 2018 update solves this issue and provides us the multi-storey stair for all the floors irrespective of the individual floor height . The best part of this is, it's parametric, i.e., you can change the parameters like height, width, landing length etc., and see all the stairs update along with it. The  information in the help website gives a detailed explanation of the update. The following video tutorial show how to use the feature.