Future Practice: Dynamo and Python in everyday use

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Sol Amour, a graduate from the SOA at VUW is to be in Wellie the week OF 13 March. He has accepted an invite to do a presentation while in town on how he is using tools like Dynamo and Python in a practice in London. He has recently had his class on Python in #DynamoBIM accepted for Autodesk University, London. 
Describing what he does in his firm at designtech.io in London, we have asked that he provide a general level chat about what Dynamo can do. It will probably focus upon the geometrical section and simply touch upon the how's and why's Dynamo can be so powerful in a data sense (As it's most commonly used to date). 
In terms of Dynamo, I do the following kinds of work:  Data:
All forms of data automation - effectively trying to alleviate time consuming repetitive tasks that don't use too much brainpower. Lots of this is pure data / workflows, but some fun stuff to show could be:
- Slope validation (Tells you if the slope meets specification)
- Window orientation (Window quandranting for passive house design)
- Model Audit and validation (Can run a script that pushes out Revit data)
 
Geometry / Optioneering:
We do a bit of work with Geometry but it's not our day to day. I can present however the following.
 
- Slatted Facade (Geometry entirely created in Dynamo and pushed to Revit. Flexible)
- Glacial Table (Geometry entirely created in Dynamo. Optioneered within Dynamo)
- Brick Placement (Logic of how to place bricks - can change coursing very easily)
- Project Fractal form finding (Can use a myriad of different options here to showcase how Fractal works)
- Bone Blimp / Turtle (Use of Adaptive Components in Revit to place via Dynamo. Can achieve interesting results)
- Bubble spread (Simply playing with this one)
 
 Strategy:
Big firm strategy (Arup, Mott MacDonalds, AECOM etc) when it comes to the re-use and uptake of Dynamo.
 - Naming conventions (How and why this matters to big firms)
- Templates (Consistency is key)
- Usage tracking (Metadata parse out to SQL database and/or csv file. Allows for the monetization and profit/time analysis of graphs)
 
 Custom tool building:
We also build tools (Revit addins / Dynamo packages) that could be fun to talk about as it's been my natural progression since leaving VUW. We utilise Python and C# at present in the creation of content. 
 - Designtech Dynamo package - Designtech tool bar / addins. - Bespoke Python nodes to speak to the Revit API

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