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Revit: Conceptual Modeling Environment

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Overview

Learn about advanced modeling tools and techniques for Revit

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to the Conceptual Modeling Environment
1. Getting Started with the Massing Environment
  • Identifying modeling environments
  • Access the Conceptual Modeling Environment
  • Understanding the Massing Environment
  • Creating common massing forms
  • Building an in-place mass
  • Manipulating forms
  • Editing profiles and edges
  • Using X-Ray and Dissolve
  • Understanding reference-based and model-based lines
2. Using Massing to Design Building Forms
  • Importing a site image
  • Using DynaMaps to import site data
  • Configuring a Revit site model
  • Copying between project and massing files
  • Setting up a massing file
  • Adding levels to conceptual mass families
  • Sculpting the basic building block
  • Cutting mass floors and pro forma calculations
  • Modifying building mass forms
  • Applying geometry to massing surfaces
  • Modeling with standard building blocks
  • Cutting solids with solids
3. Rationalizing Massing Forms
  • Understanding divided surfaces
  • Loading a conceptual model into a project
  • Divided surface properties
  • Divided surface pattern application properties
  • Dividing and configuring many surfaces
  • Creating a custom panel family
4. Building Custom Pattern-Based Panel Components
  • Reference line and point relationships
  • Establishing nested point hosting behavior
  • Adding geometry to a flexible rig
  • Creating seamless panels
  • Building a complex space frame family rig
  • Building geometry and considering overlap at edges
  • Using parameters to drive intent
  • Making a curtain panel with parametric options
  • Making a void form parametric
5. Refining Panelized Designs
  • Stitching borders of divided surfaces
  • Editing manually stitched adaptive component edges
  • Exploring advanced stitching strategies
  • Using Dynamo to stitch edge conditions
  • Using Dynamo Player and manual stitching
  • Placing a massing study in a project
  • Working with reporting parameters
6. Generic Modeling with the Conceptual Modeling Environment
  • Understanding adaptive points
  • Knowing when to use adaptive components
  • Using a nested family as a profile
  • Using an adaptive component as a profile
  • Designing a custom element with an adaptive component
  • Choosing the appropriate spline
  • Creating the canopy splines
  • Approaches to creating a roof surface
  • Building a rig for shaping custom beams
  • Using intersecting geometry to create custom 3D paths
  • Uncutting a void from hard-to-select geometry
  • Creating geometry along the edge of other geometry
7. Divided Paths and Repeaters
  • Understanding divided paths
  • Understanding hosted component orientation
  • Creating repeaters
  • Using repeaters in project with in-place massing
  • Using repeaters with paths and surfaces to create form
  • Building an adaptive rig for a custom repeater
  • Building a custom repeater from an adaptive rig
  • Incorporate divided paths in custom adaptive patterns
  • Creating a flexible void family with formula limits
  • Creating an attractor using a repeater
  • Sample projects
Conclusion
  • What's next?

Taught by

Paul F. Aubin

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