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Revit Conceptual Design: Working with surface pattern
July 11, 2011 by 1 Comment
With Revit conceptual design, you can create more fancy curtain system. Instead of simple horizontal and vertical mullions. Learn to use surface pattern here.
Using Revit Adaptive Component for 2D Profile
December 10, 2010 by Leave a Comment
We have already discussed how you can create conceptual design in Revit Architecture. Now we will step further by using Revit adaptive components. What we will do now is to create a conceptual mass to create a roof for Tongkonan house, a traditional Indonesian architecture like below. Image source: batusura There are some more pictures [...]
Creating Revit Elements by Face
November 2, 2010 by 1 Comment
We have created a conceptual mass with Revit. Now after we can show the project owner how the building will looks like, show the mass schedule, how can we finish the Revit building model? How can we convert the mass to building elements? It is very simple. You can do it in few minutes to [...]
Using Revit Mass Floor
October 11, 2010 by 3 Comments
We have created two building masses for design alternatives. We created the masses as Revit mass families which are saved as external files, not as in-placed families. Creating them as external families are good practice if you have design alternatives. We are going to see why. In this tutorial we are going to place it [...]
Modifying Revit Mass in X-Ray Mode
October 4, 2010 by 1 Comment
Let us continue the Revit conceptual design. We already cover a bit about Revit free form modeling in previous tutorial. This time, we are going to explore Revit free form further. Open your previous Revit mass family. Now save it as to different name. We will use the first mass as alternative design 1, and [...]
Free Form Modeling: Working with Sub Objects
September 27, 2010 by 1 Comment
Last week, we have cover a little about conceptual design. This time, let us talk a bit more about conceptual design: how we can work with free form modeling in Revit. This functionality added in Revit Architecture 2010. We can easily stretch faces, edges, or points to do free form modeling. This is quite nice [...]
Introduction to Conceptual Design in Revit Architecture
September 20, 2010 by 2 Comments
Many architecture design today is quite complex. Some designs are not be able to be accomplished by using the conventional workflow: designing it by floor plan. CAD Notes has covered the conventional method using a residential design as exercise. Just to remind you, you can also have it as e-book for a small price. To [...]