Dynamo
This page gives an overview over what is new in each Alias release in terms of Dynamo. It provides an overview over important bugs in certain Alias/Dynamo releases as well. This way you can choose which version of Alias is best for developing and/or using your Dynamo scripts.
New feature:
Selection button display in Alias controllable
The nodes “Select from Alias as List” now have a Boolean input, which allows Dynamo to control if the Selection button should be displayed in the Alias Dynamo Player tool window. This allows the Dynamo script writer to make
it easier to understand for the Alias user what is needed for the script to work, depending on certain options the user choses.
Note: the script must run once for this option to have an effect.
Optional .json format support
Upon start, Alias reads a folder structure from disk to build the content of the Dynamo Toolbox (this is not new). But instead of simply creating a tab in the Dynamo Toolbox for each folder on disk and displaying a tool
for each script within that folder, users can optionally choose to use a .json file instead, to tell Alias from where to read the icons of a Dynamo Player script. This is needed in case you want different icons for different
colour themes in Alias, or if you want icons to have a different name instead of the corresponding Dynamo Player script name.
Check out the Dynamo Player folder inside of your Alias installation for some sample .json files.
New feature:
Select from Alias as List
In older Alias/Dynamo versions, the resulting structure of the “Select” node in Dynamo was depending on the number of entities which were selected: single elements wouldn’t arrive in a list in Dynamo, while multiple elements
would. This caused the need for additional Dynamo code to allow more complex scripts to work correctly for both scenarios (single element selected vs multiple elements selected).
With Alias 2024.1, a new “Select from Alias as list” node is introduced, which will always deliver the Alias selected entity/entities to Dynamo in a list.
Old Alias “Select” nodes will keep on working in newer version of Alias/Dynamo.
New Feature:
Dynamo Library Location
Alias now builds the Dynamo Toolbox during start-up from the folder structure on disk. This means that every change (e.g., adding a script to a folder) will be reflected after the next new start of Alias. Alias now also
allows the user to set the location from where the Dynamo Toolbox should be read (and, by that, be created). This allows users and/or companies to easily replace the Dynamo Toolbox shipping with Alias with their own variation
of it.
New features:
Combo Box
The new Combo Box feature in Dynamo allows to create multiple choice options for the user on the Alias side. This multiple-choice entry can be displayed via a drop-down menu or via a Radio Button in the Dynamo Player tool
window.
Keep Originals
Dynamo now has the ability to optionally delete the original geometry input coming from Alias. This is enabled via the new Boolean option “Keep Originals” of the “Send to Alias” node in Dynamo.
New feature:
Dynamo Toolbox
All Dynamo Player scripts shipping with Alias are now constantly available in the Alias UI. Before, only new Dynamo Player scripts were available via the Alias What’s New Shelf of the corresponding
year. The newly introduced shelf Dynamo Toolbox now allows direct UI access to all Dynamo Player scripts.
New feature:
Dynamo Player
Alias can now load Dynamo scripts into the new Alias tool window Dynamo Player, allowing the user to control script inputs. This Alias tool window adapts according to the Dynamo script input. This makes the functionality of the script available in the Alias UI with the Look&Feel of a regular Alias tool window.
New feature:
Dynamo Integration
Dynamo is introduced into Alias. Geometry can be sent from Alias to Dynamo, and from Dynamo to Alias.