If you have been following some of my tweets lately, you may have seen that I have been looking at search in Dynamo, for a while.
I became especially interested when I realized that it hung people up between versions.
To all people learning #DynamoBIM who run into problems and get discouraged. Keep in mind that it is not always you. pic.twitter.com/qwkGytjMCG
— ʲᵒʰⁿ ᵖⁱᵉʳˢᵒⁿ 🤡🎈 (@60secondrevit) September 18, 2019
after some investigation, I found really cool open source libaries to make it way more awesome-er.
— ʲᵒʰⁿ ᵖⁱᵉʳˢᵒⁿ 🤡🎈 (@60secondrevit) September 19, 2019
But ultimately, Dynamo’s slow search boils down to two things:
- They load the icons EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU TYPE.
- Dynamo searches the entire node name, description and library category every time.
With that in mind, I aimed to add some new options,
hacking my way through search improvements for #dynamobim lately. pic.twitter.com/L1849mBQwu
— ʲᵒʰⁿ ᵖⁱᵉʳˢᵒⁿ 🤡🎈 (@60secondrevit) February 4, 2020
Simple search will eventually be in Monocle. But for now, it is still in its early phases. But wow, am I having fun working on it. (remember, search isn’t sexy, but it is essential).
