Dynamo®

Read .beam files in Dynamo®

BEAM adds nodes to Dynamo that read .beam files. Use them to build your own Revit workflows with the geometry and data exported from Rhino.

You find the nodes in the Dynamo library under MKS > BEAM. They work in Dynamo 2, 3 and 4. The installer registers the package for you.

BEAM.History

Lists the .beam files in the .beam directory, newest first.

Output	Content
list	Full paths of the .beam files

Connect it to a List.GetItemAtIndex node to pick one file. Index 0 is the latest export.

BEAM.Import

Reads the geometry and data of a .beam file.

Input	Content
beam	The name of the .beam file, or a full path from BEAM.History

Output	Content
Geometry	Dynamo geometry
Name	Object names
Layer	Rhino layers
Data	The Data property set in Rhino
GUID	Rhino object IDs
Family	Family names
Subcategory	Subcategories
Material	Material names
Color ARGB	Object colours
Document Info	Information about the Rhino document
Status	Messages about the import

All outputs are lists in the same order, so item n of each output belongs to the same Rhino object.

Supported geometry: solids, points, lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, polylines, NURBS curves and polycurves. Meshes are skipped.