Dynamo course for beginner?

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Hi,

Can someone please recommend a good course for absolute beginners?

I’m looking for a course that helps with automation of construction drawing. i work for a structural engineering firm i am not interested in the creation of geometry side of dynamo.

Thanks you.

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This is 100% the wrong take.

Some common drawing automation tasks which require geometry that I can come up with off the top of my head:

  1. Renumbering rooms, beams, and other elements
  2. Placing drawings on sheets
  3. Tag elements
  4. Layout framing and build trusses
  5. Generate rebar
  6. Tie connections
  7. Create sections and other views
  8. Identify needed details
  9. Populate detail tags
  10. Copy elements between models and applications

You don’t need crazy generate oddball forms, but you will need geometry basics. Everyone I know who has skipped geometry winds up frustrated in a few months due to a massive knowledge gap and either learns it then (when it’s harder to do so) or gives up entirely.

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Good to know, i appreciate your response.

Can you recommend some courses to learn the basics?

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Dynamo primer is where everyone should begin:

I recommend making a working/user group internally where people can present and discuss/learn together.

Identify what you want to specifically automate (not just ‘drawings’ - far too broad). Bite off some smaller tasks from the list and explore them as a team, you will learn a lot through trial and error.

The company needs to give people a solid time block to learn in, such as half a day of uninterrupted time. This is where most firms fail in my experience, they give resources to users like courses then give them 1 minute a week to learn.

You will need at least 1 or 2 potential ‘super users’ who want to make this a part of their skillset who can lead the charge. Learning Dynamo and general automation takes time and is not a little bonus skill that anyone can just pick up bregrudgingly. Identify them, support them and encourage them to teach/share.

Go in understanding this has business overhead attached to it as well. Scripts will need to be built, version tested and managed.

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I also recommend the primer as a first step.

Skip nothing, even if it seems irrelevant as the session that teaches say layout of solar panels has concepts which you will need to know for say the placement of columns. Every session there is picked out not to achieve an outcome but to teach something you need to learn.

There are also the Dynamo Office Hours series which can be found here: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdlF7MirPEC2yNFTGymESd3t7Xosfk9c2

It isn’t a ‘course’ but early on it had some of the same content I cover with users in the courses I give now.

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