BEAM for Rhino®

MKS BEAM plugin for Rhino®

BEAM for Rhino adds BIM data to your Rhino model. You group geometry into families, give each family a Revit category, and fill in parameters. Then you send the model to Revit or save it as IFC.

All BEAM data is saved in the .3dm file. It is there again when you reopen the file.

How it works

1

Model

Model in Rhino as usual. Use blocks for anything you want to place many times.

2

Add BIM data

Open the BEAM panel. Assign objects to families, pick a category, set properties, parameters and levels. Check the data in schedules.

3

Export

• BEAM saves objects and blocks to a .beam file for Revit. See BEAM.

• BLOCS saves block placements to a .beam file for Revit. See BLOCS.

• IFC Export saves an IFC4 or IFC2x3 file. See Export.

4

Bring data back

RAY imports geometry, materials, parameters and levels exported from Revit. See RAY.

Pages in this section

Page	What it covers
Getting Started	Open the panel and learn its layout
Properties	Family, subcategory, material and data
Visibility	Views and detail levels in Revit
Curves & Linework	How curves arrive in Revit
Families	Create, rename and select families
Transfer Layers	Turn Rhino layers into families and subcategories
Parameters	Custom parameters and property sets
Classifications	Uniclass codes
Schedules	Tables with filters, groups and colours
Levels	Levels, level planes and colour by level
.beam Directory	Where .beam files are saved
Settings	Theme and machine ID
BEAM, BLOCS, RAY	The exchange tools
Grasshopper®	BEAM components for Grasshopper