Overview
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Learn about advanced modeling tools and techniques for Revit
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome to the Conceptual Modeling Environment
- Identifying modeling environments
- Access the Conceptual Modeling Environment
- Understanding the Massing Environment
- Creating common massing forms
- Building an in-place mass
- Manipulating forms
- Editing profiles and edges
- Using X-Ray and Dissolve
- Understanding reference-based and model-based lines
- Importing a site image
- Using DynaMaps to import site data
- Configuring a Revit site model
- Copying between project and massing files
- Setting up a massing file
- Adding levels to conceptual mass families
- Sculpting the basic building block
- Cutting mass floors and pro forma calculations
- Modifying building mass forms
- Applying geometry to massing surfaces
- Modeling with standard building blocks
- Cutting solids with solids
- Understanding divided surfaces
- Loading a conceptual model into a project
- Divided surface properties
- Divided surface pattern application properties
- Dividing and configuring many surfaces
- Creating a custom panel family
- Reference line and point relationships
- Establishing nested point hosting behavior
- Adding geometry to a flexible rig
- Creating seamless panels
- Building a complex space frame family rig
- Building geometry and considering overlap at edges
- Using parameters to drive intent
- Making a curtain panel with parametric options
- Making a void form parametric
- Stitching borders of divided surfaces
- Editing manually stitched adaptive component edges
- Exploring advanced stitching strategies
- Using Dynamo to stitch edge conditions
- Using Dynamo Player and manual stitching
- Placing a massing study in a project
- Working with reporting parameters
- Understanding adaptive points
- Knowing when to use adaptive components
- Using a nested family as a profile
- Using an adaptive component as a profile
- Designing a custom element with an adaptive component
- Choosing the appropriate spline
- Creating the canopy splines
- Approaches to creating a roof surface
- Building a rig for shaping custom beams
- Using intersecting geometry to create custom 3D paths
- Uncutting a void from hard-to-select geometry
- Creating geometry along the edge of other geometry
- Understanding divided paths
- Understanding hosted component orientation
- Creating repeaters
- Using repeaters in project with in-place massing
- Using repeaters with paths and surfaces to create form
- Building an adaptive rig for a custom repeater
- Building a custom repeater from an adaptive rig
- Incorporate divided paths in custom adaptive patterns
- Creating a flexible void family with formula limits
- Creating an attractor using a repeater
- Sample projects
- What's next?
