February 7, 2012

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 [...]

Creating Floor Edge Slab and Custom Component

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We have created ceiling in our Revit model. Now let’s take a look to our void in stair area. There is a gap between floor at 2nd story and 1st floor ceiling. In the real world, of course this is not right. We have to close it. There are several ways to do that, depends [...]

Creating Ceiling in Revit Model

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In this Revit Architecture tutorial, we continue to finish our model by adding ceilings.

Creating Railings

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Illustration: stock.xchng We have created staircase in our Revit model. But it’s not finished yet. There are some open area we have to close by adding railings. On the balcony at the front and back of the building, and on the void next to our stair. We will finish this in this session. As this [...]

Creating Staircase

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We completed our Revit model exterior by creating roof. Now we start working on the interior by creating staircase. If you always create stairs by drafting it in AutoCAD, you will love stair tool in Revit! Revit create stairs automatically, it will also calculate how many risers you should create to the next level. It’s [...]

Creating Roof Edges Profile

In the previous tutorial, we learn about creating roof in Revit model. We created a sloped roof, and a roof slab below it. We are going to use the roof slab as a gutter. So in this tutorial, we will close it edges using roof fascia. We will learn how to create two profile family, [...]

Creating Roof

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Let’s go further with our Revit tutorial. In the last tutorial, we learn about creating floor. Now we are going to create roofs. There are 3 ways to make this building component. By footprints, extrusion, and by face. In this tutorial, we will discuss about creating it by footprints. In your Revit project, open your [...]