CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
In the last Revit tutorial, we have learned how to split Revit views. We are still discussing about view. In this post, we will discuss how to rotate Revit views. Why would we want to do that? As you see in our last model, the west wing is not parallel to the horizontal axis. There [...]
In this post, I will share some tips to control your views for large models. This is a question from my other forum (a local forum in Indonesia). Let’s see what this guy wants to do. Duplicating View When you work with quite a large model, and the model is not fit to a single [...]
In the last Revit tutorial, we have discussed how the workaround to create a siding wall, in 3D. That was probably a cool way to do it. However, when you design a complex building, you probably want to avoid too many 3D objects. Especially if your workstation can’t handle a large model. This is an [...]
We have discussed how we can define wall structure horizontally. Now the problem is, how can we define the structure vertically? We have discussed how we can add reveals and sweeps to do this. In this article, let us discuss how we can create a vinyl siding wall as example. The common way (and probably [...]
I had a very interesting Revit family sample last week. It is a furniture family, but we can place it just like placing walls: we define first and last point, not by the furniture location. It is not possible to create such a family type using the furniture template. We need to create it using [...]
Before we continue our Revit family tutorial, we are going to do a little exercise, creating window with sill, keystone, and tilt soldiers. To make this different with the previous tutorial, we are going to create an arc form for the top of this window. Modifying The Window Opening Create a new Revit family. Use [...]
We have done with creating door basic. We add the main panel and symbolic lines. In this tutorial, we will add more forms: void and solid. As I always said, creating Revit family is just a repetitive process. More complex your object is, more repetition you will do. Not more difficult,but certainly more work! Open [...]
We have learned the basic of Revit families. You probably have found that creating Revit families is just a repetitive process. You create parameters, create a work plane, create a solid/void form, and create sketch. This time, we will create a door family. This door family will have solid and void forms, and you will [...]
