Life isn’t just about Dynamo, so here is something a little different to mix things up.
Earlier this year I spoke at BiLT ANZ 2017, I had the opportunity to present two separate talks of which one was lookup tables. It’s a bit of a dry topic, so stick with me.
Lookup tables for pipe and conduit fittings provide an invaluable enhancement to the MEP workflow that we take for granted. On every project we work on, lookup tables save us countless hours in the modelling process. Without them, modelling a pipe system would require each individual pipe fitting to be sized as you go. It may be only a few seconds lost per fitting, but multiply that by hundreds or even thousands of times across a project. Then consider the revisions across the piping network. Those few seconds wasted quickly adds up.
At their core, lookup tables are simply comma separated value files (.csv) that are used in conjunction with Revit family files. Prior to Revit 2014, these files were stored on your hard drive…