Revit Architecture 2008

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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

Tagging and Scheduling Mass

The value of doing early massing studies in Revit is that they all contain information about the spaces you’re designing. You can quickly tag the masses, visually categorize them, or schedule them to get feedback about the area and volume the building will occupy

The Massing Tag

The Mass tag is Revit’s tag for mass elements. By Default this type of tag is not loaded in Revit. When you decide to tag the mass families and select Tag/by Category from the Drafting Design Bar, you will get a message that a Mass tag has not yet been loaded and that you can load such a tag from the Library. If you confirm with Yes, the library folders open and you will find the Mass tag family under the Annotations folder. The default Mass tag extracts the gross floor area of each mass, but you can add any other instance property to be extracted by the tag or any shared param-eters you may need in the process of a feasibility study for stacking and blocking diagrams (see Chapter 15 for more on tagging). There is no special Mass tag.rft template file. To create a new mass tag to match your graphic needs, you can either duplicate the existing one or start with a generic tag template.

Project Parameters and Scheduling Massing

To create schedules that can give you information about various functional groups to which mass elements belong, the departments they represent, or the space IDs, you can use project parameters. You can create project parameters for program group, department, or space ID; assign these to your masses; and then schedule them to analyze and track how your model fits the program.
To add a project parameter, choose Settings Project Parameters. Choose to add a new parameter, and then select Mass as the parameter’s category. Once you do this, the parameter shows up in all mass instances, and you can assign values for this parameter in each of the mass instances. Should you also want to tag the properties in question (Program Group, Department, and so on), you’ll need to create shared parameters instead. You’ll learn more about shared parameters in Chapter 15.

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Massing Studies

Tagging and Scheduling Mass