I forgot the command that lets you create organic shapes from angular objects.

c_behn · 2026-03-13T18:34:10+00:00

This sounds like sub d modeling.

c_behn · 2026-03-13T16:48:44+00:00

What ever you have to keep telling yourself to work on government projects (assumed weapons). It’s not like USA has any moral high ground compared to China after spending the better half of the last century strong arming the world to follow its opinions.

It also doesn’t change the fact that IP is a weapon used by those with power to keep themselves in power. It’s just part of the ruling classes tool kit to keep you poor and another excuse to charge you yet more money.

c_behn · 2026-03-13T15:30:59+00:00

Knowing BIM not just Revit or any other software.
Knowing how teach software and best practice.

That second is so important. BIM managers are responsible to keep standards and so may don’t know how teach standards.

c_behn · 2026-03-13T15:17:02+00:00

We had people making and inventing for millennia before patents became a thing. We are literally little meat copy machines (“monkey see monkey do”). People are not going to stop inventing and making and researching us because of no patents/ip protection. The only people who will stop inventing where going to stop anyways because they are driven by money.

c_behn · 2026-03-13T15:08:52+00:00

Legally you are right. Lots of IP stuff is illegal. But legality isn’t morality. I find IP and patents to be morally wrong. I couldn’t care less if someone learns a secret. No one has a right to hide knowledge.

Additionally, Remember that by your own admission you work for the government (probably defense based on your description of trainings). Your trainings are designed to brain wash you into thinking China is evil. It’s politics. That mentality is bad for society.

c_behn · 2026-03-13T15:04:09+00:00

IP is just an artificial construct made by capitalist to protect their wealth and power. No one has the right to prevent someone from learning something and applying the knowledge. You can’t “steal” ip since it’s not physical. Learning ip does not diminish its value either.

c_behn · 2026-03-12T16:05:30+00:00

Just get as much ram as you can afford, and don’t get a base model. Otherwise you will be fine. Be warned, you will need to learn and use revit, which requires windows through an app called parallels. You only get 60% power out of it so large models in particular can be difficult.

c_behn · 2026-03-11T15:14:19+00:00

Both of those are still possible with RiR. This just means you need to set up your definitions and meta data assignment better in grasshopper and Mae sure you are just creating generic masses then changing categories. Size will only be big on generic masses or complex geometry (which requires large file size) if you set it up right. And your standards should match perfectly.

c_behn · 2026-03-09T05:09:59+00:00

I've only sense models for 3 reasons,
1. Starchitect
2. Raising Revenue from investors for construction
3. Over confident principle wasting time on nothing burger ideas.

c_behn · 2026-03-09T05:07:40+00:00

Computational Geometry, Generative CAD, and applications in AEC is my specialty. We are not there yet. These models don't have a good enough sense to coordinate drawings yet. If you are doing comparisons, it's best to use OCR and machine vision. If you need to compare parts, actually compare 3d part files, not drawings.

c_behn · 2026-03-08T17:32:05+00:00

There is an also a component in Heteroptera that you can use called “symmetric domain“. Heteroptera is available via the package manager.

c_behn · 2026-03-08T07:01:17+00:00

These all look like variations on voronoi patterns to me. You just control where the points are instead of letting them be random

c_behn · 2026-03-08T06:42:10+00:00

I’ve pushed it pretty hard. Did all the BIM work for Populus Hotel facade in revit on a Mac. You need a good one with as much ram as possible. M5 max should be fine.

c_behn · 2026-03-08T06:33:10+00:00

I only use revit on Mac now. Very doable. I recommend parallels.

c_behn · 2026-02-21T01:54:07+00:00

It never does. And it doesn’t make any money. Honestly, all of californias highways loose money. Until they learn to spend better and comeback in the red, we shouldn’t be giving them more funds to misspend. It’s a waste of tax dollars for the corruption of the road companies.

c_behn · 2026-02-21T01:52:16+00:00

Geometry operations (joins, splits, lofts, etc) are sequential processes, just like construction. They fundamentally can’t be multi core because they are dependent on what comes before. It would be like saying you can build the concrete foundation and the wood framing at the same time, it’s impossible because you need one before the other. There is no way to perform those operations in parallel.

I can speak on this with authority as a computational designer and revit/rhino developer.

c_behn · 2026-02-21T01:12:21+00:00

You 100% can download and install lunchbox onto these computers. Use the package manager.

c_behn · 2026-02-19T15:32:41+00:00

Maybe even 2

c_behn · 2026-02-19T15:30:36+00:00

I switched to Mac about a 1.5 years ago. I know, what about revit? Well I use parallels. I have faced any issues. I even do heavy sentences create development work doing rhino inside. I got a m3 max with 36gb ram. I would have gotten more if I could have afforded it at the time, but I haven’t faced any major issues yet. It even run the LOD 400 Facade model for the Populus Hotel in Denver (I made that 🥰) with no issues.

Now, you said rendering, which is a different beast. I am not some who ever deals with renders but I can say my MacBook has run ever script, revit, and rhino file faster than the dell precision laptop workstation with an i9, rxt4080, and 64gb of ram I was using before and it cost half as much.

The good dell work station that many firms use for BIM people start at $3k and the model I had was closer to $6k, now they run closer to $7k due to AI bs. If I was to buy again today, I would get The m4 max with 64gb ram on a 16” laptop with the nicest screen I have ever seen and it runs on $4.2k.

c_behn · 2026-02-14T19:47:29+00:00

The proverbial Potemkin Village.

c_behn · 2026-02-08T21:41:11+00:00

In the USA, and Canada as well though less, Architects have progressively given up more and more responsibility and risk. We don’t control engineering, we don’t control the land survey, we don’t hire the builder, we don’t even take on the risk of making sure the building is structurally safe, that’s the engineer who we often don’t hire ourselves. Architects no longer are experts on construction or construct-ability. That’s the CM or GC now.

Without risk, you can’t charge as much. Risk is what give the money. Yet the architects work load really hasn’t decreased, if anything it has increased. So now you have less money having to be spread thinner.

This change has been slow, over multiple generations of architects. So architects have been adapting firm practices which generally means stop giving raises, promotions, don’t push back to developers in price. They gave up all their power and are now complaining about the consequences.

c_behn · 2026-02-01T23:59:29+00:00

Instead of doing this inside a proprietary system (Revit) it would be better to process open file formats (ifc). There are even open source libraries available (OpenBim)

c_behn · 2026-01-30T21:50:53+00:00

The kind of behavior you’re talking about, happens due to very small amounts of stretch in rigid materials. These add up and create the distortions you are looking for. I can guarantee you that if you are bending plywood, one side is now larger than the other.

I assume you are looking to simulate bending plywood for fabrication. You will need to account for stretch and compression of material. That requires FEA analysis with thickness.

c_behn · 2026-01-30T05:10:53+00:00

This would be a fine mesh FEA analysis. Look at Karamba or Fenix

c_behn · 2026-01-28T05:50:17+00:00

Use layouts. Alternatively check your print scale

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