Folks, it has been a privilege being part of your Dynamo journey (in this way).

As you may or may not have seen, new user enrollment for my Dynamo courses on designtechunraveled.com has been disabled. I elaborate more on the reason below, but the short answer is that the courses are no longer being updated after December 20th, 2024, and offering out-of-date courses for new users isn't something I am looking to do.

Since 2022, I have managed to create 3 courses for Dynamo.

• Dynamo for Revit Beginner
• Dynamo for Revit: Programming with Python
• Dynamo for Revit: Coding New Nodes with C#

The goal has always been to get people to learn Dynamo because learning Dynamo truly changed my career trajectory, and I wanted that same thing for anyone else who was interested.

Some Background

In December of 2013, I opened Dynamo for the first time and it scared the heck out of me. The nodes turned red, it probably crashed and it was overwhelming. Back then, the nodes were yellow by default! For the rest of 2013, and into 2014, I kind of forgot about Dynamo and continued my work as a Revit technician at an architecture firm. But the need for automating things kept creeping back up.

In December 2014, my company agreed to send me to Autodesk University (AU). With this news in hand, I enrolled in every class that said "Dynamo" in the title or description. Keep in mind, back in 2014, there were not a lot of Dynamo-based classes. One of these was, "Dynamo for Dummies: An Intro to Dynamo and How It Interacts with Revit". This class was taught by a guy named Marcello Sgambelluri, and it blew my mind. Seeing the way that Dynamo can update data in Revit was a revelation.

It finally clicked for me.

After AU, I went back to the office and started creating all sorts of Dynamo workflows. It was awesome. Over the years I started helping people on the Dynamo forum, making Dynamo packages, learning Python, eventually learning C#, and began working with the Dynamo team through my employer, Parallax Team.

For a more detailed overview of "My Dynamo Journey", you can check out this no-code app here: https://mydynamojourney.glideapp.io/

Creating Courses

Creating courses for people to learn Dynamo from was always on my radar. In 2022, I finally made the move to make this happen with designtechunraveled.com. Over 2 years, we managed to release 3 courses and about 200 of you have learned Dynamo because of them. I say "we" because my wife edited all of the video content that you all have learned from.

With that in mind, I send my wife, Vanessa, a huge thank you for all the help.

Fast forward to now, the courses are closed for new enrollment. Why? Well, starting this month, I have accepted a new position where a potential issue exists if I were to keep updating the content and adding new users to the enrollment. In the end, I always wanted folks to have a great experience with the content, and without it being updated, that is difficult to do.

Leaving the Consulting World

As most of you probably know, I have worked at Parallax Team for quite some time. As of this post, it is almost 7 years! I have been a BIM consultant now for a total of 8 years. It has been awesome, and I have had the opportunity to meet great people, make friends, and learn a ton.

Over this time I have:

• Taught at Autodesk University several times.
• Learned C# and applied that to both Dynamo packages and Revit plugins.
• Started a Revit plugin "wing" at Parallax Team, with several plugins that many people use every day.
• Contributed to Dynamo's source code.
• Worked closely with the Dynamo team for several years.

It is crazy to believe that it has already been almost 7 years, and I am truly grateful to Aaron and the Parallax Team for the opportunity.

Note: the images above were screenshots of the (now deleted) Parallax Team Twitter feed. These were taken on Aaron's Android phone and I had to let you all know because I would not be caught using an Android phone.

My New Position

I am excited to announce that, as of now, I will be working at Autodesk on the Dynamo team as a Software QA Engineer. So now, I can complain (constructively) about Dynamo "inside the factory".

With this in mind, I need to make everyone aware that the courses are no longer being updated (starting December 20th, 2024), and that the 3 courses have no affiliation with Autodesk and were not created while I was an Autodesk employee. Existing users may still access the content, but new users will not be accepted.

For anyone interested in learning Dynamo, I encourage you to check out the magnificent resources available on the Dynamo website here: https://dynamobim.org/#videoTut and the Dynamo primer:https://primer2.dynamobim.org/
Funny enough, those videos on the Dynamo website were created by yours truly. So you get to listen to my voice even more if you would like!

Part of Your Dynamo Journey

With this all in mind, while I won't be "part of your Dynamo journey" in a course creation capacity, I still aim to be an advocate for the everyday user of Dynamo. I hope to work to make the product better, and more enjoyable and have fun while doing it. I hope to meet some of you at future Autodesk University events and I want to say thank you to everyone for the support over the years.

Keep making awesome stuff with Dynamo and I look forward to seeing it.

-John