# Revit 2017.1 Dynamo player

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729>\
**Category:** Revit\
**Created:** [October 12, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729 "2016-10-12T20:15:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![T\_Pover](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/t_pover/32/19147_2.png) [@T\_Pover](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/T_Pover)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/1 "2016-10-12T20:15:49Z")

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Hey Guys,

Just thought I’d share this with you: I saw a new update available for Revit 2017: Revit 2017.1 and it comes with a new Dynamo Player button on the ribbon. Looks very interesting, I’m installing as we speak and gonna try it out.  
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8usi9c2BVg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8usi9c2BVg)

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**Author:** ![Kulkul](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/kulkul/32/49801_2.png) [@Kulkul](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Kulkul)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/2 "2016-10-12T20:23:32Z")

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Hi @T_Pover

Thanks for sharing 🙂.

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**Author:** ![Kulkul](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/kulkul/32/49801_2.png) [@Kulkul](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Kulkul)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/3 "2016-10-12T20:29:40Z")

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@T_Pover @Thomas_Mahon Here are some more ehancements in Revit 2017.1 [http://insidethefactory.typepad.com/my\_weblog/2016/10/announcing-revit-20171-.html](http://insidethefactory.typepad.com/my_weblog/2016/10/announcing-revit-20171-.html)

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**Author:** ![T\_Pover](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/t_pover/32/19147_2.png) [@T\_Pover](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/T_Pover)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/4 "2016-10-12T20:34:30Z")

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Hehe, that’s the same site I got the link to the youtube clip from 🙂  
I did a little testrun with the Dynamo Player, it does what it promises: running your scripts as they are. For someone who hadn’t dived into Dyno yet this is pretty useful.

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**Author:** ![Jose\_Goncalves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@Jose\_Goncalves](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Jose_Goncalves)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/5 "2016-10-12T21:32:08Z")

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Thank You for sharing!!!

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**Author:** ![jostein\_olsen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/jostein_olsen/32/8570_2.png) [@jostein\_olsen](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jostein_olsen)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/6 "2016-10-13T06:21:08Z")

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possibility for any user inputs here?

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**Author:** ![T\_Pover](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/t_pover/32/19147_2.png) [@T\_Pover](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/T_Pover)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/7 "2016-10-13T06:38:09Z")

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Nope, it’s just running the graph as is.

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**Author:** ![JAVIER\_FQG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/javier_fqg/32/12608_2.png) [@JAVIER\_FQG](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/JAVIER_FQG)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/8 "2016-10-13T07:31:22Z")

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Thys dynamo player would be a improve speed in charge geometry create with dynamo?Or is just something that can charge a dynamo definition in a easy way?

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**Author:** ![T\_Pover](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/t_pover/32/19147_2.png) [@T\_Pover](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/T_Pover)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/9 "2016-10-13T08:50:31Z")

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I don’t think the graph will run any faster. The startup time is a lot faster though as you don’t have to start Dynamo and open the definition.

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**Author:** ![Mikael\_van\_der\_Wal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@Mikael\_van\_der\_Wal](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Mikael_van_der_Wal)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/10 "2016-10-13T09:25:59Z")

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Awesome…for running scripts where no manual selection is required.  
Just used this with a script where two splines are supposed to be selected and now it hangs 😉  
Nevertheless…awesome piece of additional functionality to Dynamo / Revit.

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**Author:** ![Thorsten\_Strathaus2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Thorsten\_Strathaus2](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Thorsten_Strathaus2)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/11 "2016-10-13T10:31:49Z")

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Any chance we will get that player for 2016 as well?

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**Author:** ![Mostafa\_El\_Ayoubi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/mostafa_el_ayoubi/32/7815_2.png) [@Mostafa\_El\_Ayoubi](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Mostafa_El_Ayoubi)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/12 "2016-10-13T13:46:08Z")

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with nodes that use the pickobject(s) method, you can perform your element selection even when playing the script through dynamo player . Here’s an example with rhythm’s “pick model elements” :

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/2X/2/26ffc007bfc13c078c600b8c13d54ee4da8b4ef0.gif)

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**Author:** ![Macroperari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Macroperari](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Macroperari)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/13 "2016-10-13T14:52:56Z")

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Looks really Interesting

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**Author:** ![Luke\_Johnson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/luke_johnson/32/9473_2.png) [@Luke\_Johnson](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Luke_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/14 "2016-10-14T00:27:57Z")

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Did you see @Mostafa_El_Ayoubi comment? pickobjects can still work with Dynamo Player 🙂

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**Author:** ![Zach\_Kron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/zach_kron/32/349_2.png) [@Zach\_Kron](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Zach_Kron)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/15 "2016-10-14T02:22:53Z")

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Haha! Nice find! Yes, the Revit team is looking at input methods, but starting simple. Really interesting to see this discovery.

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**Author:** ![john\_pierson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/john_pierson/32/191977_2.png) [@john\_pierson](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/john_pierson)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/16 "2016-10-14T17:58:46Z")

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@Mostafa_El_Ayoubi nice find!!

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**Author:** ![GregX](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/gregx/32/56837_2.png) [@GregX](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/GregX)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/17 "2016-10-17T00:23:21Z")

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Nice find! even if it seems that the script took a “long” time to load. Is that because it prepares an input? or is it just dynamo loading in the backgroud?

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**Author:** ![Mostafa\_El\_Ayoubi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/mostafa_el_ayoubi/32/7815_2.png) [@Mostafa\_El\_Ayoubi](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Mostafa_El_Ayoubi)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/18 "2016-10-17T07:28:42Z")

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It runs much faster when I’m not recording a gif 🙂

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**Author:** ![GregX](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/gregx/32/56837_2.png) [@GregX](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/GregX)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/19 "2016-10-17T08:25:17Z")

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Haha of course, sorry I didn’t think about that. Still have to try the player btw

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**Author:** ![Eric\_Imbrechts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba8739/32.png) [@Eric\_Imbrechts](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Eric_Imbrechts)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2017-1-dynamo-player/6729/20 "2016-10-18T15:35:28Z")

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Any chance it could read a master folder structure? So we can keep routines organized?

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