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Creating Revit Elements by Face

November 2, 2010 by Edwin Prakoso 4 Comments

In this Article...

  • Creating Floors
  • Creating Roof
  • Creating Curtain Wall

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?

Revit_mass

It is very simple. You can do it in few minutes to convert the faces to building elements in Revit, such as walls, roofs, floors, and curtain wall. Adaptive components are more advanced, but it’s a different coverage.

In Revit ribbon, open the massing & site tab. Find model by face panel.

model_by_face

You can see four Revit tools to convert the mass faces. Let us try it.

Creating Floors

First, we are going to create floor. Click floor tool to activate it. Now you need to select the floor face. Just drag a window to include all faces. Don’t worry, it will not select faces except for the floor faces.

After we have selected them, click create floor.

create_floor

Now examine your Revit model. You should see the floors now. Quick and easy, right?

building_floors

Creating Roof

Now try the roof tool. It is exactly the same with floor tool. But remember, this time you only select the roof face. Not all faces.

building_roof

Wall is a bit different. You don’t need to click create wall to make it. After you click the mass face, the wall is created immediately.

Before you continue to have fun, let us see the properties palette. After you activate create wall, the properties palette is now showing wall properties. You may change the wall type, location line and other properties.

create_wall_properties_palette

However, you only can use basic wall type with this tool.

Creating Curtain Wall

Now let us finish our Revit model by adding curtain wall. Curtain wall tool also require you to click create system. Curtain wall is quite a complex element. You should try to create it at one face at a time. If you don’t have a powerful machine, it may crash if you select multiple faces at once.

Here is my finished building shell.

finished_building_shell_2

I will continue this conceptual modeling to adaptive components. Stay tuned!

Creating building elements from mass faces

About Edwin Prakoso

I work as a Sr. Consultant in PT Cipta Satria Informatika. I've been using AutoCAD since R14 and Revit since Revit Building 9. I occasionally write for AUGIWorld magazine and I am also active in Autodesk discussion forum. I'm a member of Autodesk Expert Elite, an appreciation for individuals who give contributions to the Autodesk community.
Connect with me on twitter or LinkedIn.

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jp bernier
jp bernier
9 years ago

I found the problem with generating the Mass Floors. It’s not that this content in incorrect, but it leaves out an important aspect, and that is this. The mass element must PASS THROUGH each floor plane (level) that you wish to create. For example, to create the very bottom floor, the mass must extend lower than the bottom floor, even if only by a small amount.

By the same example, if you are a creating Mass Floor with only one level, the mass must exist above, and below that level so that Revit can find the intersection and make the floor.

Otherwise you will not be able to pick the plane of that level. Hope this helps someone.

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Edwin Prakoso
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9 years ago

Thank you very much for the additional detail JP. I believe this will help other readers!

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jp bernier
jp bernier
9 years ago

This does not work as described. Many other places give the same instructions, but Revit does not respond as indicated. Once the mass is selected, and Mass Floors is chosen, and the Select Multiple Tool is selected, you cannot pick anything. Clicking Create Floor also does nothing. Please clarify the process so that it is useful.
Thanks!

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Roy E Stevens
Roy E Stevens
14 years ago

You are very good and I really appreciate your posts.

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