Revit Architecture 2008

Autodesk Revit Tutorials, Revit Families, BIM Revit

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Home CHAPTER 1 Intrduction What to expect from BIM Where can you go from here The bottom ine CHAPTER 2 Introduction Working with Revit Parametric Elements The Revit User Interface Using the Project Browser The Bottom Line CHAPTER 3 Introduction Selecting, Changing, and Replacing Elements Editing Elements Interactively Other Useful Tools The Bottom Line CHAPTER 4 Introduction Starting a Project with a Custom Template Settings for Graphic Consistency Creating Custom Annotation Tags Creating Custom Title Blocks Creating a Custom Title Block with the Family Editor The Bottom Line CHAPTER 5 Introduction Wall Types Floor and Roof Types Ceiling Types Door and Window Types Stair Types Types and Type Catalogs Graphic Overrides of Host Objects with Complex Structure Additional Global Project Settings The Bottom Line CHAPTER 6 Introduction Modeling with Revit Principles of Modeling in Revit Where Can You Go From Here? The Bottom Line CHAPTER 7 Introduction Massing Studies The Bottom Line CHAPTER 8 Introduction Conceptual Design and Early Studies The Bottom Line CHAPTER 9 Introduction Revit Design Options The Bottom Line CHAPTER 10 Introduction Modeling Parametric 3D Families Choosing the Right Family Template Types of Families Smart Workflow: Nesting One Family into Another Parametric Arrays in the Family Editor Encoding Design Rules Building a Parametric 3D Family The Bottom Line CHAPTER 11 Introduction Basic Walls: Advanced Modeling Techniques Curtain Walls: Advanced Design Techniques Roofs Roofs and Slabs: Advanced Shape Editing Railings and Fences The Bottom Line CHAPTER 12 Introduction Drawings with Shadows Color-Coded Plans and Sections Elevations That Convey Depth Working with Perspective Views Rendering Creating Animated Walkthroughs Exporting to Other Formats The Bottom Line CHAPTER 13 Introduction Preliminary Design Tools Calculating Areas Schedules Using Schedules for Preliminary Cost Estimates The Bottom Line CHAPTER 14 Introduction Sustainability in Architecture Preliminary Design Tools Tracking Recycled Materials Window Surface Percentage vs. Room Area Energy Analysis The Bottom Line CHAPTER 15 Introduction Annotating Your Views Displaying Information about Rooms Schedule Keys Tags Shared Parameters Text and Keynotes The Bottom Line

Modeling with Revit

Designers have a long tradition of modeling before building. This activity involves the use of pliable and tactile materials such as clay and wood to model designs fluidly. With these materials, form can be explored with ease, and designs allowed to iterate directly in our own hands. The use of software to model form has become a popular extension of this activity, and you only need to look so far as the latest animated film to see how far the technology has come. There are many software modeling tools that allow direct editing and intuitive shaping of form. Tools such as Rhinoceros, 3ds Max, Maya, and SketchUp allow you to create free-form shapes with relative ease. These tools are great for modeling, but they are not geared for a BIM approach to design and documents. The elements created with these modelers are meshes, nurbs, acis solids, and other generic geometrical shapes that are used to represent walls, slabs, roofs, and windows but they do not have any embedded intelligence or relationships among themselves or with other elements in the model. Further, they barely contain any metadata that can be quantified and ana-lyzed. So, as it stands today—you will find great modelers that are not BIM and BIM applications that are not powerful modelers. One way that Revit approaches this problem is to allow the import and smart re-use of free-form geometries into the project and family environment. The entire modeling concept in Revit is based on four base class modeling forms—extrusion, revolution, sweep, and blend—and the combinations that these can produce. Each of the four base modeling techniques can produce either a positive or negative shape that can be combined to create more complex forms. Each form is derived from 2D sketches that are drawn on Work Planes. We’ll explore in more detail what sketch based forms are in the next section. While there is clearly room for improvements when it comes to the generic modeling capabili-ties of Revit, you will be pleasantly surprised with the variety of 3D geometry you can generate in a short amount of time. Figure 6.1 shows an example of what’s possible
Figure 6.1 Example of expressive architecture using Revit
Sketch-Based Design Working with Work Planes