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

Massing Studies

Massing Study Workflows Massing Tools Starting a Conceptual Massing Study Putting Theory into Practice: Making a Parametric Mass Family Taggving and Scheduling Mass Importing 3D Conceptual Models Created in Other Applications Rapid Prototyping and 3D Printing
Importing 3D Conceptual Models Created in Other Applications
You can import geometry from conceptual modeling applications (3D models, created in AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhinoceros, and 3ds Max, among others) done in various formats into a mass instance or mass family in the same way you import geometry into other families. You may need or want to do this in several scenarios:
You have users who are comfortable with 3D modeling tools like those listed. They prefer to do the massing there and then use Revit’s analysis capabilities as well as the Building Maker to turn the mass into a building. There are shapes and NURBS forms that Revit doesn’t do easily (or at all), so you need to cre-ate the shape in another application. You need not import a whole shape, as shown in Figure 7.18—it may be just a face of a shape that you’ll need later to design a specific portion of a complex-shaped building, such as its roof.
Figure 7.18 NURBS shape created in Rhinoceros is converted t o a real wall using the Wall By Face functionality of the Building Maker
You can import individual masses (a complex shape, for example) or a fully developed massing study model. Regardless what the import represents, the strategy is to never import it directly into the project file but to go through a family import:
If the geometry is an individual element that you’re likely to reuse, open the Family Editor by opening a mass template, and create a new mass by importing the geometry. If you have a full study model, it’s advisable to import it as an in-place Mass family in the project (use the Create Mass tool and then File/Import CAD Formats to import the 3D geom-etry created elsewhere).
We’ll talk more in Chapter 8 about how the behavior of the imported items depends on how they’re imported, whether directly into the project, in a massing family in the family editor, or in an in-place Mass family. It is important to note that Revit won’t let you copy masses between a family and a model. You may encounter this limitation (and error message) when you mistakenly added more than one mass in one mass element but you needed to assign different parameters to each of them . To do so, you would need to move some of the masses to other mass elements. Be aware that there is no way to do it and you’ll have to re-create the wrongly placed masses from zero.