Revit: Conceptual Modeling Environment

Course details

Learning the basics of model building in Revit is mostly quick and easy. The essentials of core elements such as walls, floor, and roofs are accessible and fairly intuitive. For more unique and specialized design challenges, discovering appropriate tools and techniques can be more challenging. Many advanced modeling techniques are available, and some are more obvious and intuitive than others. In this course, Paul F. Aubin dives deep into the tools that the Revit conceptual modeling environment has to offer. Whether you want to do a simple building massing study or pro forma analysis, or delve deep into complex shapes and forms like lofted forms, free-form geometry, patterning and repeat tools, the massing environment offers these and many more. Paul mixes standard techniques and outside-the-box thinking as he explores many ways to take your Revit modeling skills to the next level.

Concepts

Introduction

Welcome to the Conceptual Modeling Environment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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