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Creating Realistic Light Bulb in Revit Architecture
August 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Creating Title Block From AutoCAD Sheet
July 4, 2010 By 11 Comments
Migrating to Revit? You can quickly create company standard title block using your existing title block in AutoCAD.
Creating Your Own Revit Families
May 30, 2010 By 17 Comments
Want to create your own Revit family? This e-book covers the basic, and provided with video that explains the exercises.
Creating Vinyl Siding Wall
March 18, 2010 By 7 Comments
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 [...]
Creating Line Based Cabinet
March 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Revit Family Exercise: Creating Brick Soldiers
February 28, 2010 By 7 Comments
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 [...]
Adding More Void and Solid Forms
February 22, 2010 By 4 Comments
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 [...]
