Design handoffs shouldn't mean stepping away from your work. Senibina-Bridge empowers designers to participate directly in BIM workflows, maintaining design guardianship while eliminating coordination overhead.
The bottleneck between Rhino and Revit isn't design capability. It's workflow infrastructure access.
I know because I lived it. I'd been writing code on the side for a few years, drawn to what happens when technology and architecture meet properly. Working as a BIM Modeller on MENA projects like Dubai Square Mall and Dubai Mall 2, I saw exactly where the gap was. Designers would hand off Rhino geometry and I'd spend days recreating it manually in Revit, sometimes weeks.
Then family circumstances changed and I became a caregiver alongside the job. Suddenly those hours weren't just inefficient. They were hours I needed back.
So I doubled down and automated what I was doing by hand. What took days shrank to hours, then to minutes. I wasn't theorising about workflow efficiency. I was reclaiming time for what actually mattered, while proving the tool worked under the same deadline pressure that created the problem in the first place.
That's what I built Senibina-Bridge to enable. Designer empowerment, not workflow separation. Time returned to what matters, not consumed by what shouldn't take this long.
You've spent days refining your design in Rhino. The form captures intent perfectly, the geometry is elegant, and the client is excited.
Then comes the Revit translation.
Three options present themselves.
Manual translation. Hand off Rhino geometry to BIM professionals who recreate it piece by piece. Accurate but economically inefficient, and the translation time often exceeds the design time itself.
Automated translation via scripting. Options exist, whether Dynamo in Revit or Grasshopper via RhinoInside.Revit. Both can automate geometry translation, but both require dual expertise in computational design and deep understanding of Revit family structures, parameter hierarchies, and BIM coordination workflows. For practices without specialists who possess both skill sets, the learning investment is substantial.
Design simplification. When neither option fits project economics, geometry gets simplified to what manual workflows can handle. Parametric facades become simpler, freeform surfaces become approximations, and design ambition adjusts to infrastructure reality.
None of these options are about design quality. They're about infrastructure access. When competitive tools cost more than talent, the market serves capital instead of creativity.
We believe that's backwards.
Complex Rhino geometry becomes production-ready Revit families in minutes, with no scripting required and no design compromises.
Senibina-Bridge is a no-code Rhino-to-Revit workflow automation plugin with three tiers. Each builds on the previous, progressing from quick integration to true native parametric geometry.
FreeForm elements inside families that maintain BIM intelligence, including scheduling, materials, and quantities. Non-parametric but fully functional.
Commands
What it solves
Geometry translation bottlenecks, manual recreation overhead, and non-intelligent imports that can't schedule or quantify.
When to use it
Quick integration for most design-to-documentation needs. Handles complex geometry without requiring parametric control.
True native Revit geometry through reference lines. This is the pinnacle geometry type Revit supports, fully parametric, constraint-ready, and carrying zero technical debt.
Commands
Everything from Tier 1, plus Import Reference Lines.
Why this matters
Reference lines let you build geometry the way Revit expects it natively, not as imported FreeForm elements. You get true parametric behavior, constraints, and zero technical debt.
What it solves
Post-import geometry limitations and the need for parametric flexibility with constraint-based design logic.
When to use it
Parametric facade systems, adaptive envelopes, or any workflow requiring true parametric flexibility in Revit.
Adaptive components from Rhino curves and points, bringing computational design to production scale.
Commands
Everything from Tier 2, plus Create Adaptive Components.
Workflow
Use Tier 2's Import Reference Lines, then deploy thousands of instances via Create Adaptive Components based on Rhino curves and point arrays.
What it solves
Manual instance placement, Grasshopper dependency for adaptive deployment, and the gap between computational design output and Revit production.
When to use it
High-density facade panels, repetitive custom components, or computational design outputs requiring mass deployment with parametric control.
Native Revit system families like walls, floors, roofs, and ceilings. These represent simpler technical challenges but need completion for comprehensive workflow coverage.
Our approach is to solve the hard problem first (complex geometry via families), then complete the easier features (system families). This prioritizes enabling practices to tackle projects they previously couldn't bid on efficiently.
If your workflows require system family support today, monitor our development progress. We'll communicate timelines clearly rather than overselling readiness.
$29 SGD per month per seat.
Monthly pricing matches how architecture practices actually work, since complex geometry work comes in waves, not steady streams.
During parametric facade projects. Add seats for team members needing workflow automation. Infrastructure costs match project activity.
Between complex projects. Scale back to core team and avoid carrying fixed overhead for capabilities used intermittently.
Testing phase. Run Bridge for one project without multi-year commitments. Evaluate fit with actual work, not theoretical scenarios.
Think of it like cloud infrastructure. Scale up when you need it, down when you don't.
Enterprise licensing and fixed-price project engagements are available on request.
14-day free trial with no payment details required.
Test with your actual custom geometry, not abstract scenarios. Good workflows to evaluate include complex massing to Revit families, curved facade panels via Reference Lines, and adaptive component deployment from Rhino arrays.
If your workflows require features still in progress, we'll tell you.
Architecture's long hours aren't a badge of honor. They're a symptom of manual workflows that technology should have solved by now.
BIM is powerful, but it's also complex and time-consuming. The industry has normalized this overhead as part of the craft. It isn't. The craft is in the design decisions, the coordination, the problem-solving, not in the hours spent recreating geometry that already exists in another format.
I didn't have the luxury of accepting that inefficiency. I needed those hours back, so I automated my way out, one script at a time, while still delivering the projects that paid the bills.
That's what & Senibina is building toward. Tools made by practitioners who needed to reclaim their time. Not infrastructure gatekeeping, but workflow access. Time returned to what actually matters.
Your design capability should determine your project range, not your workflow budget or how many hours you're willing to sacrifice.
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