CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
Last week, we have cover a little about conceptual design. This time, let us talk a bit more about conceptual design: how we can work with free form modeling in Revit. This functionality added in Revit Architecture 2010. We can easily stretch faces, edges, or points to do free form modeling. This is quite nice [...]
Many architecture design today is quite complex. Some designs are not be able to be accomplished by using the conventional workflow: designing it by floor plan. CAD Notes has covered the conventional method using a residential design as exercise. Just to remind you, you can also have it as e-book for a small price. To [...]
Do you realize that you need to use same view settings in your projects? Instead of tweaking the visibility every time, why not save it in a template?
If you have rendered your model with artificial lights in Revit, you probably have seen that the result can be ‘not so realistic’. We don’t see the light bulbs glowing. We can see the lights, but it looks all wrong… where is the light came from? To create a ‘glowing’ light bulb, you need to [...]
When you start to work on a large project, you probably start to think about design collaboration. You need several users work simultaneously on a project. And not having the others wait while you work. You can use Revit link, which is pretty similar with AutoCAD XREF. But Revit link works best if you have [...]
Migrating to Revit? You can quickly create company standard title block using your existing title block in AutoCAD.
In a building design, you might need to create multi-phase design. It can be existing and new construction phase for renovation projects. Or it can be you need to create some temporary construction that you will need to demolish later. Or the project itself require us to build it in multiple phases. Understanding How Design [...]
I had this question: how can I control the a complex roof in Revit? Something similar like below. The roof doesn’t look pretty, the roof edges don’t meet at expected point. The problem that cause this is Revit attempt to create slopes from each edges. The meeting point might not where we expect it should [...]
