Dynamo - Spanish Roof Tile Generator

Why just few people know how awesome Dynamo is?

I suppose there are two representative reasons.

1. Hard to learn.

Not as difficult as learning other script based programming for sure. But not as easy as learning Revit. It must be much easier to learn if there are enough resources like the ones of Revit. I expect it should be solved soon or later.

2. Regarded as not very practical yet.

People says that Dynamo has a lot of potential. It can be easily regarded as it's useless yet when we say something has potential. I love computational design.  But It's true that there are just few projects which can be treated with computational design in real world.  Most of architects are still using traditional design codes or process even though they're using Revit.

So I created an example which can make some interests from the architects who are thinking Dynamo has only potential yet.

Roof Generator

This dyn places muliple AC Rooftile families at proper faces of selected sloped roof from Revit at once.

When you select a roof element, it will find six different parts and separate them as several lists as below.

Roof Tile for Cone Roof

Once I published "Adaptive Roof Tiles", and still it's the most popular post in my blog.

I got several requests and questions about the families. This is one of them.

Mission: How to make roof tiles on cone roof?

Like this?

Spanish Roof Tiles

As known, we don't have to make in 3d every parts of buildings when use Revit.
We can use 2d elements for documents and it's good enough for construction.

But in some reasons, we have to make highly detailed models sometimes.

Roof tiles are one of them. It's not nessesary in 3d for construction documents. But without medeling, the visual effect can't be like real one.

In fact, I rarely use roof tiles in my projects. I tried this just because of my curiousity.