Technical‑skill signals: Rhino to Revit
Tutorial activity for Rhino/Grasshopper surged with Google Bay View series on catenary roofs and segmentation, while short social tips covered Revit aligned dimensions and noted AutoCAD 2027’s cloud collaboration and AI Assistant updates. The posts point to visible, shareable learning resources for computational and BIM workflows. (x.com) (x.com) (x.com) (x.com)
A burst of architecture how-to posts is pushing Rhino, Grasshopper, Revit, and AutoCAD skills into short, highly shareable lessons. (howtorhino.com) One of the clearest examples is a How to Rhino tutorial built around Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. The October 19, 2023 lesson walks users through a diamond-grid roof in Rhino and Grasshopper, starting with a two-dimensional pattern and turning it into a three-dimensional mesh with lifted vertices and panelized surfaces. (howtorhino.com) Grasshopper’s catenary tool models the hanging shape of a chain between two points, using span length and gravity to generate the curve. In the Bay View workflow, that curve becomes the sagging roof profile that users can apply to repeated panel segments. (grasshopperdocs.com) (howtorhino.com) The same Bay View tutorial also breaks the roof into repeatable pieces: lofted roof strips, boundary surfaces, and vertical glass panels inserted in the gaps. How to Rhino says the extended version adds Paneling Tools so users can build the grid entirely inside Grasshopper instead of drafting the base pattern in Rhino first. (howtorhino.com) That kind of lesson sits at the computational-design end of the workflow, where geometry is generated from rules and adjustable inputs rather than drawn one line at a time. Autodesk’s Revit documentation covers a different part of the same pipeline: aligned dimensions that let users annotate entire walls, openings, and intersecting walls with one click. (autodesk.com) Autodesk says Revit’s aligned-dimension tool can reference wall centers or widths for openings and can automatically create multi-segment dimension strings for intersecting walls and grids. The company also notes a limit: automatic aligned dimensions do not work on walls in linked files, where users must pick references individually. (autodesk.com) On the drafting side, Autodesk released AutoCAD 2027 on March 25, 2026, with what it called a “connected, intelligent design experience.” The company said the release adds Autodesk Assistant in tech preview for in-context guidance and CAD standards checks, plus Forma Data Management Essentials for shared project environments. (autodesk.com) Autodesk says AutoCAD 2027 lets teams collaborate on shared DWG files without traditional file-locking conflicts. Its product material says users can reserve only the geometry they need, work in parallel, and apply changes back through Forma Data Management. (autodesk.com) (storyblok.com) Taken together, the posts map a visible skills ladder: parametric form-making in Rhino and Grasshopper, documentation moves in Revit, and cloud-based drafting updates in AutoCAD. The common thread is not a single software release, but a steady stream of small, public lessons that show exactly how practitioners are learning the tools. (howtorhino.com) (autodesk.com 1) (autodesk.com 2)
