Life is full of funny coincidences. Totally unrelated to the last post, someone just gave me a heads up about a free download for Generative Components. Now, I dabble in Grasshopper, and scratch my head a bit about Catia/Digital Project watching from the outside, but in terms of digital diversity, I really don't get out much. So if I see the opportunity to drop this (in)famous application onto my desktop and fiddle, well, by god I'm going to fiddle.
And I am humbled. As with any new application, you open it and see the befuddlement stretching out before you like the great plains. I just want to figure out how to draw a line . . . how? Well, take your pick:
Back in the day, I did my fair share of 2d Microstation, but this is a whole other ballgame. The enticing thing about it is something I had heard about from others but never got around to experiencing first hand. The "thin wrapper" around the API, the completely exposed guts and wires. I want to know more. Especially when I see this sweet little symbolic hierarchy of relationships that gets generated on the fly.
Or this ugly and powerful looking explicit manner to define a simple arc.
Yes, I know, plenty of you have been far down this path already, so I won't blog extensively on my bumbling toddler-like first steps. But when I get a chance over the next few weeks, I hope to be able to dip my toe in this strange yet familiar water. Anybody have some tutorials to point this Padawan towards?
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Zack, do you know if and when Revit is going to get an algorithmic editor similar to GC? I know that Dr Aish is over two years with Autodesk so I hope to see something similar for Revit in the near future.
these are floating around - but are old: http://adds.transparente.net/?tag=generative-components
@Jack Redford: I believe Dr. Aish is working on the ACAD team - maybe Zach knows more?
You can find some e-seminars @ Bentley here> http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Promo/Generative+Design/eSeminars.htm
The sites listed above have much of the training content that has been publicly released for GC in the past, if i recall correctly. Here are a couple other sites I used to frequent that had good GC content:
http://www.designpatterns.ca/
http://www.eatyourcad.com/
Ben Dougherty used to have a site called gcuser http://www.gcuser.com/ but it looks like it has lapsed into disrepair and lost his domain. Perhaps his content got merged into some other site.
Here's another one, with case studies and videos:
http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Promo/Generative+Design/In+Practice.htm
>>> Totally unrelated to the last post, someone just gave me a heads up about a free download for Generative Components.
I disagree and think they are quite closely related....Whenever I interact with BENTLEY products, I feel like I am involved in a poop joke.
Thanks for the links everyone . . . afraid I don't really know much about what Robert Aish is up to.
i have a few GC tutorials on my site if you want to get started
www.cerver.org
...must be top secret stuff what Robert Aish is concocting...
http://aecmag.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=224&Itemid=36
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