ThinkParametric

Grasshopper Course on Creating a Smart Floor Planning Sketch Tool

Automatization

On this Grasshopper course you'll learn how to create a tool for doing quick and intuitive floor plan design explorations while getting real-time analytic feedback on your program areas.

Jaime Sol

Jaime Sol

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About this course

On this course, you´ll learn how to create a tool in Grasshopper that will allow you to design and explore quickly and intuitively floorplan layouts while getting real-time data from your program areas.

Once this tool is properly referenced and set up, you don´t need to operate it on the Grasshopper environment so it becomes an asset you can share with colleagues who have no experience with parametric modeling.

We cover lots of useful tricks like how to intuitively create room separations with open curves, add and remove architectural programs on the spot and export critical information to inform your designs.

Takeaways

  • Learn how to reference geometry into Grasshopper using the Human Plugin.
  • Read in real time information from your Rhino Model.
  • Display and bake geometries with color.
  • Export data from Grasshopper to Excel Spreadsheets.
  • 1.- Referencing and setting up layers

    11min 41seg
  • 2.- Creating surfaces and displaying area information

    22min 56seg
  • 3.- Sorting & Displaying skecth curves by level

    15min 34seg
  • 4.- Tracking and displaying areas interactively

    27min 12seg
  • 5.- Exporting program areas to Excel and baking surfaces with color information

    06min 56seg
  • 6.- Creating walls and basic volumes from skecth layouts

    18min 11seg