Workshops - Computational Design Workshops
Hands-on workshops across the tools our clients build with: Dynamo and the Revit API, Rhino.Inside for AutoCAD and Civil 3D, Grasshopper and Python, and applied AI.
Built on real-world projects
Every workshop is grounded in real-world project scenarios rather than abstract exercises, so participants leave ready to apply what they've learned on day one. Most run live and online. Choose a track below, or talk to us about a customised syllabus for your team.
Innovate · Computational design · AutoCAD + Grasshopper · Next cohort dates announced soon
Initiate
Modelling concepts
Our free Introduction to Dynamo guide is a documentation-based, online walkthrough that introduces basic-to-intermediate visual programming. Build a parametric model from Revit elements with Dynamo and pick up the computational-thinking foundations everything else builds on.
- Computational thinking & procedural modelling
- Parameter space and data management
- Lists, lacing and indexing
- Building parametric Revit geometry
Self-paced guide
Free
Innovate
Computational design
Advanced visual-programming techniques to build a fully parametric model from Revit elements, and a clear understanding of how Revit and Dynamo communicate. Six steps build an elliptical spiral stair, each adding new procedural-modelling concepts.
- Functions, lists, lacing and indexing
- Solids, surfaces and direct shapes
- Reading and writing Revit parameters
- Dynamic family placement
- Extending Dynamo with packages
2 days · Live online
£749 + VAT
per person
Pioneer
Python + the Revit API
Unlock Dynamo's full power with Python and the Revit API. Across three parts covering Python fundamentals, the Revit API and packaging custom nodes, you'll write automation that's impossible with nodes alone.
- Python syntax, libraries and definitions
- Interfacing with the Revit API
- Filtered Element Collector and parameter data
- Automating room and tag creation
- Publishing custom node packages
2 days · Live online
£749 + VAT
per person
Getting Started with Rhino.Inside
For AutoCAD + Civil 3D users
A self-paced, online-only walkthrough covering the very basics of running Rhino and Grasshopper inside AutoCAD, from installation to launching both apps and exchanging geometry, finishing with a first baking example.
- Installing Rhino.Inside AutoCAD
- The Rhino geometry preview
- Opening Grasshopper inside AutoCAD
- Geometry exchange and baking
Self-paced guide
Free
Introduction to Rhino.Inside
For AutoCAD + Civil 3D users
A free, live orientation bringing Rhino and Grasshopper directly into AutoCAD and Civil 3D. Ideal for Grasshopper-familiar users, especially those who know Rhino.Inside Revit, it translates what you already know to the AutoCAD document model, then extends it to Civil 3D data types.
- How Rhino.Inside Revit knowledge maps to AutoCAD
- Geometry conversion and the document model
- Filters, baking and blocks
- Civil 3D TIN surfaces, alignments and parcels
90 minutes · Live online
Free
Computational Design First Steps
For AutoCAD users
Your first step into computational design, for AutoCAD users who can already find their way around Grasshopper. A guided exercise builds computational-design thinking from first principles while deepening the Grasshopper skills you have, then puts both to work on practical modelling tasks driven live into AutoCAD with Rhino.Inside.
- Computational-design thinking from first principles
- Deepening the Grasshopper skills you already have
- The AutoCAD document model, filters and baking
- A live attractor pattern driven by a slider
- Block references populated from curve data
1 day · Live online
£479 + VAT
per person
Rhino MCP
Convert Grasshopper definitions into MCP
Make the most of MCP (the Model Context Protocol) for Grasshopper and Rhino without giving up the definitions you've spent years building. Using our plugin and MCP server, wrap an existing definition as a tool an LLM can call in natural language.
- What MCP is and why it matters for designers
- Anatomy of an MCP tool: inputs, outputs, descriptions
- Wiring a definition into a callable tool
- Connecting an LLM client and calling it
- Data and geometry exchange, testing and limits
1 day · Live online
£379 + VAT
per person
RAG for AEC Data
How to set up a RAG for your AEC data
Ground a language model in your own documents to support real AEC tasks across design, specification and compliance. Build a simple but accurate RAG from scratch over the UK Building Regulations, with attention to what makes it trustworthy.
- How retrieval-augmented generation works
- Ingesting, parsing and chunking documents
- Embeddings and a vector store
- Grounded answers with source citations
- Evaluating quality and mitigating hallucination
1 day · Live online
£379 + VAT
per person
Common Questions - Workshop FAQs
Answers to the questions we hear most from teams considering a group, on-site, or bespoke workshop.
Bring computational design to your team
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