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
Massing Study Workflows
The massing tools are located on the Design bar’s Massing tab (Figure 7.4). If you don’t see it, acti-vate it by right-clicking anywhere on the Design bar and clicking Massing. To create a massing study, analyze it, and convert it to a building, you need to understand the available tools first; then, we’ll walk through a real exercise.
Figure 7.4 The Massing tab provides all the tools needed to create a massing study
The tools for creating masses in Revit are directly connected to the modeling tools and tech-niques we discussed in Chapter 6. You’ll use the same modeling tools (Extrusion, Blend, Sweep, Revolve) as well as the logic of work planes and placing by face whenever you create a mass, whether in the project environment or the Family Editor. The Massing design bar is divided into three groups of tools that we refer to as mass-creation tools, Building Maker tools, and view tools. The first group allows you to make masses from scratch or place massing families. The second group contains tools to support the concept of Building Maker—a term that doesn’t exist in the Revit UI but is commonly adopted among Revit users to describe the process of converting a concept massing into a real building. Using the faces of a conceptual mass, you can attach walls, curtain sys-tems, floors, and roofs to the mass form with a click of the mouse. Later in this chapter we’ll refer to this grouping as Building Maker The third group contains the standard Section and Level tools; these are the most important additional tools to have at hand during creation of mass studies. They are the same Section and Level tools that you find on the Basic menu or in the views.
Creating a Massing Element
There are two ways to create a mass element in the project environment:
Select the Create Mass tool This method allows you to create a new mass element . Select the Place Mass tool This method allows you to place a massing family or load a mass family from your library. Before we look in detail at these two methods, you need to understand how massing visibility is handled in Revit, because you’ll encounter this issue the moment you start creating masses.

Visibility of Masses
When you try to place mass or create mass for the first time, you may get the following message, which conveys information about the visibility of the mass elements: Insert Image This message can be disconcerting at first, so let’s understand what is going on. Visibility of mass elements can be controlled via the toolbar or as a category in the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog. The toolbar control is a global on/off switch for massing that affects all views temporarily. It’s located at the top of the screen, near the 3D button: Insert Image When you select this button, all masses in all views become visible. This is great for early mass-ing studies, allowing you to move from view to view and see your mass without having to turn the category on/off for each view. When this mode is enabled, it does notaffect the Visibility/Graphics Overrides state of your views. To see the mass elements in specific views only, you should use the Visibility/Graphics Over-rides settings for view control. Even when the Show Mass button is turned off, if you check the Mass setting in the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog, it will be visible in that view. To print and export massing, you need to turn the mass category on using the Visibility/Graphic Overrides dialog. The Massing toggle is a temporary view control and doesn’t affect printed output. As you develop your design further and start creating the real building components (walls, floors, and roofs) by adding elements to the model, the mass will become obscured. A great way to maintain a view where only massing is visible is to create a 3D view where all categories are turned off except massing. Name the view Massing or something appropriate. Figure 7.5 shows two views: one with only the massing category visible and the other with all categories visible. This is handy, for example, when you want to make adjustments to the basic shapes that define the geometry (masses) without being distracted by the presence of the building elements. When you change the underlying mass, the architectural elements created from it follow the change automatically. You’ll learn more about this workflow in Chapter 8.
Figure 7.5 The same view with different visibility states for massing and model elements
Masses in Revit appear with transparent materials in 3D views by default. When you switch to floor plan, however, they appear solid. Users of Revit have shared this experience and some sug-gest orienting a 3D view to a floor-level plan. You’ll notice the difference with the behavior of the shadows as well: Although a floor-plan view of a mass displays a shadow, an oriented 3D view doesn’t.