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We have already discussed how you can create conceptual design in Revit Architecture. Now we will step further by using Revit adaptive components. What we will do now is to create a conceptual mass to create a roof for Tongkonan house, a traditional Indonesian architecture like below. Image source: batusura There are some more pictures [...]
If you do many building conceptual modeling, you must love this one. This application might be showing how serious Autodesk in BIM industry. The first time I tried it, it reminds me a bit to free version of SketchUp. With this tool, you can create building mass as conceptual design quite easy. Vasari looks and [...]
We have created a conceptual mass with Revit. Now after we can show the project owner how the building will looks like, show the mass schedule, how can we finish the Revit building model? How can we convert the mass to building elements? It is very simple. You can do it in few minutes to [...]
I have posted a tip how you can control Revit view title appearance. I made a big mistake by mentioning this: Now the question you probably want to ask: can we change the text appearance or change the circle symbol? As far as I know, no. It’s not external family, so you can’t edit it [...]
When we place a Revit view into a sheet, we will always see the view title placed at the bottom of the view. Some of us can be annoyed by this view title, especially when we have only one view in our sheet. When we have only one sheet, maybe we only want to show [...]
Update: Autodesk 2012 products are coming. If you are looking for AOTG for 2012 products, please find it here. I have posted a review about AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011 – No Experience Required. I’ve been wondering what are the other Autodesk official training guide (AOTG), so I did some searches. I found some [...]
We have created two building masses for design alternatives. We created the masses as Revit mass families which are saved as external files, not as in-placed families. Creating them as external families are good practice if you have design alternatives. We are going to see why. In this tutorial we are going to place it [...]
Let us continue the Revit conceptual design. We already cover a bit about Revit free form modeling in previous tutorial. This time, we are going to explore Revit free form further. Open your previous Revit mass family. Now save it as to different name. We will use the first mass as alternative design 1, and [...]
