Upload your first building - Rhino
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Navigate to the Projects page on the web-app and select Create New. Give your project a name, make it collaborative, and hit OK.
Switch over to Rhino and type Finch to open the Finch plug-in.
Log in with your Finch account under the Account tab.
Under the Project tab, select your new project and variant from the drop-down menus, and click Load Project.
When you load a project into Rhino, the Finch layers are automatically imported to the layers panel. You use these to send and receive geometry to Finch.
Draw a building mass in millimeters.
For precise calculations, each building mass on a site should be uploaded as a single, unified mass.
If you are modeling using separate blocks for stories, use the BooleanUnion command to create a single mass prior to uploading.
Place the volume onto the building mass layer, multiple masses go on the same layer together.
Currently, a centerline is required for Finch to generate horizontal circulation.
Activate the centerline layer.
On the base of the building, draw a polyline that goes through the average midpoints of the floor plate.
A centerline controls the placement of Finch generated corridors. It represents the centerline of the corridor itself (if you input a 2m corridor, the corridor will be offset both sides of the centerline by 1m).
Activate the grid lines layer.
Place polylines on the bottom of the building.
You can snap to gridlines while editing or while generating around a custom core.
When generating a floor plate, slide the Grid Lines weight fully to the right to prioritize it.
Sync to upload the building mass.
Once the sync is complete, the Rhino model will display floors and a data tag within the Rhino mass and the building will appear inside of Finch.
