Revit Architecture 2010 New Features - Conceptual Mass Make Form
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Software : Revit Architecture 2010
Description :In this Revit Architecture 2010 video you will see how the new make form button works within the conceptual modeling environment works. There are a few new things that make it really nice for working on building masses. Now that the New 2010 product family has been announced i will post a series of videos on some of the new functionality and how it’s a bit different from before. Hope you like it!
Topics Covered:
- Make Form Button
- Reference Lines v. Model Lines
- Setting Planes
- Lofting
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DesignReform.net by David Fano is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at designreform.net.
thanks for the wonderful tutorial
[...] 2010 - Conceptual Mass - Make Shape David Fano of designreform.net sent me this link for his new video demo of Revit 2010’s conceptual massing tools. Its really exciting to see Revit’s modeling [...]
amazing david….nice tutorial…
Glad you liked it! More soon!
Thanks David. I am still having some issues with the conceptual mass tool. maybe you can elaborate on these..
-When i export the walls converted from a mass and bring it into 3Ds Max or any other software it seems to massively triangulate the solid. almost like a meshsmooth
-the “spline through points” tool never works when i try to make a mass from it
-have you tried importing CAD lines as profiles?
heres a few screen shots:
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/739/45366564.jpg
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/5812/22767095.jpg
Love it, you must create some more videos about this (curtain walls and so one)….
hey david,, is there any way to turn that smooth surface u did in this video…into a more of a sharp surface at the edges…(just like the difference between uloft command and ruled surjace command in 3ds max…)
Excellent - hey David what do you think of the new UI (exclusive of conceptual massing)? thumbs up, thumbs down?
The other main difference between building forms with reference lines vs. model lines is that when you go to delete the form, reference lines will be left behind, whereas model lines won’t. This can be very useful in many workflows.
@Aaron - I as an existing user it takes a bit to find things. For a new user it’s much easier to learn.
@Adamya - not automatic way i know of. you can loft them 1by1
@Typhoon - I’m going to shoot for one a day
@Chico - HI!
Give us more of these wonderful videos.
best regards
Phil Read (who used to work for autodesk) has an interesting post on his blog about the new UI. I completely agree with him too.
http://architechure.blogspot.com/
Hey, will we be able to use these type of lofts and new tools in family creation or can they only be used in the creation of a “conceptual mass”?
Thank you
Only in the conceptual mass and new panel tools (videos on those soon)
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great work, love to see more videos..
Thanks man, cannot wait to get this, how many hours did I spend trying to do this kind of stuff in the previous versions only to find out that I couldnt!!hahaha
Thanks once again for the tutorial. Cheers man
This is one of the best tutorials I’ve seen on this tool. Thanks so much!
Thanks! That was really nice of you to say
[...] In this Revit Architecture 2010 video you learn a bit about the direct manipulation tools in the new conceptual mass environment. We will also look at adding parameters and the new ways you can interact with them. Watch Video [...]
Thank you David for such an excellent resource of top quality free tutorials. i look forward to advancing my knowledge of revit. much appreciated.
a little rough… a little basic… some little mistakes…..
but is ok when you are learning and don’t have any idea of revit…..
thank you !
I like it…please post more videos…
David, great video! Thank you. Suggestion: There appears to be feedback on your audio. Maybe reposition the microphone. Keep up the great work!
is it possible to create floors from the mass the way you could in revit 2009?
Sure
I found your tutorial very useful, it allowed me to make the complex shape that I was going for. There’s just one thing at the end that I am probably doing wrong; I am making a curvy roof and I created the mass then I loaded it into a project. So now it’s in the project and I try to Model by Face and make it a roof but it doesn’t let me do that:
“Error - can’t be ignored. Can’t make roof.”
What’s the right way of doing this?
Thanks David for the extensive coverage of 2010 so far, great videos, it’s definitely helped with some of the more complex things I’m trying to produce. I’m having exactly the same problem as Jassim though, creating an extremely complex mass and not being able to do anything with it once brought into a project. I would love to see a video of more complex situations like that. Keep it up
Project Cooper allows me to leave non-wysiwig AutoCAD completely behind and concentrate on Revit, using Project Cooper to make the dimensioned 2D drawings that are useful sometimes to attach to a Revit model to keep the Revit model from getting too big. It’s as easy and intuitive as Graphite. Very exciting.
how do i get to another video? can someone help me plz
[...] Conceptual Mass Make Form video by Design Reform’s David Fano (this site has many other tutorials as well) [...]
Ecellent, thanks much for the tutorial keep posting!!!
thanks!!
Great tutorial! How do I go about creating something similar based on horizontal planes? Can the levels only go vertical? HELP - I’m a beginner! Thanks
While this became more of an issue with using the loft to make smaller objects it is more of a general question. When in sketch the pink construction lines do not adjust their clearity or size when i zoom in. Is there any way to change this manually so i can better see what i am making at close range? I noticed that it automatically adjusts when i am creating a family but not when im modeling a component in a project or in conceptual mass.
thank you for the awesome video:))I have some questions,i’d be glad if u can help me
can you make a building with only masses tool, like cutting voids, adding floors, walls etc?or it’s just conceptual forms?
if not then can you explain if that’s able to do in revit and how? cause I used to use sketchup before and it was really hard to do so.I though Revit was better with making curved/irregular forms into buildings