Auto Generating and Optimizing Modular Air Duct Layouts in Revit

What happens when some enthusiastic software developers team up with a few innovative mechanical designers?
Henderson Engineers is an MEP design firm that's been working on developing a modular DfMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) air duct system for a while now, and has created some clever Revit families and Dynamo scripts to help its designers model them. The firm joined forces with EvolveLAB, a Building Information Model (BIM) consulting and software development company, to create a Revit add-in that focuses on the real-time generative design of these modular duct layouts.
In this session, we'll review how these companies used some unique properties of the Revit API to create a co-authoring system that allows a mechanical design to sketch out a main duct layout in Revit while the computer simultaneously and continually produces the most optimal layout using the DfMA kit of parts for that sketch. Once the design is finalized, it is converted into a fully connected Revit duct system.