Ballpark Builder

America’s Pastime has maintained a tradition of unique ballpark dimensions and oddities; one need not look further than Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, and Coors Field to understand the massive differences in outfield dimensions, wall heights, and asymmetry that has become synonymous with baseball. While designers can and should take full liberties when designing their parks, this tool can help them visualize a prospective park based on their desired dimensions. Certain guidelines do exist at the professional level (particularly in the infield), but Little League and softball fields incorporate the same design with altered dimensions; thus, having the ability to quickly iterate over multiple designs and inputs can be useful to community leaders/developers looking to construct one within certain constraints.

Intended users

Prospective developers who want to quickly envision a baseball or softball field given adjustable input parameters about the field (for instance: the distance to the center field wall, foul poles, pitcher’s mound, basepaths, etc.).

Need you’re trying to provide a solution or support for

This tool intends to kickstart the prototyping for a new baseball field by allowing users to rapidly test various different dimensions and styles and exporting workable objects to Revit.

Inputs

Basepath Length
Right Foul Line Length
Left Foul Line
Distance to Straightaway Center
Outfield Wall Height
Pitcher’s Mound Distance
Pitcher’s Mound Radius
Infield Grass Dimensions
Infield Dirt Dimensions

Underlying logic of the model you’ll implement

The user specifies certain inputs, and taking these into account, the model constructs a field with the given dimensions. Due to the asymmetrical nature of many parks, certain liberties can be taken with distances (for instance, to the foul poles), and the outfield wall will adjust accordingly.

Outputs

Editable Revit/Dynamo field with accurate dimensions
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