February 8, 2012

Playing With Revit Camera

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After creating your 3D model in Revit, of course you want to show off your model. Why not? It’s easy. You may already have several cameras in your project right now! In this post, we will discuss about placing and fine tuning our camera. And we will also discuss how to create a 3D section [...]

Placing Views to Sheet

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We are getting to the end of this tutorial. We have created our Revit model. We have the plan views, elevation views, section views, schedules, and you might already experiment with perspective views. This is the basic information we can present in a sheet. I consider the basic tutorial ends here. There are more, but [...]

Creating Schedule from Revit Model

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Creating schedule from your Revit model basically is just the same. Once you are finished with your Revit model, you can count any data from your model. It can be door/window schedule, where you can show how many doors/windows. Or it can be wall schedule, to show wall length, wall area, or wall volume. You [...]

Defining Room and Room Legend

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Room is one type of information you can add to your Revit model. That’s why we call it building information modeling (BIM). It’s not just lines and text. It can hold a lot of information in your building model. This time we will define rooms in our design, and create a room schedule. Let’s open [...]

Working with Door and Window Tags

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In this Revit tutorial, we will create a view for doors and windows plan. We will hide some details and add door and windows tags.

Creating Revit Family from 2D Drawings

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Do you need to create a complex Revit family? If you don’t need to show it in 3D, just make it 2D! It will appear in plan, elevation, section anyway.

Revit Annotations: Dimension

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We have done with modeling our building for now. After we placed Revit components, now we can produce descent drawings. Well, we haven’t learn about curtain wall and site/topography which I plan to write later. But let’s have fun for a while. We are going to discuss about the other modeling technique in Revit later, [...]

Introduction to Revit Components

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We have finished with modeling our building. We created walls, floors, roof, staircase, railings,  and ceiling. We can consider it finished, but we will add some objects from library to complete it. Nothing is hard about Revit components. At the first time, I didn’t intend to write about this and just let you explore about [...]