Disclaimer: This video is from an open help session with student to work through some of the problems they are encountering making advanced Revit Families. I stumble a bit with some of these models but it was meant to be a trial and error session. The intention was for students to get a sense of how we can trouble shoot some of the issues Revit throws back at us.

Software : Revit Architecture
Level : Intermediate / Advanced
Description : This group is trying to figure out how to constraint ellipses to voids. They are experimenting with face based families.

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Disclaimer: This video is from an open help session with student to work through some of the problems they are encountering making advanced Revit Families. I stumble a bit with some of these models but it was meant to be a trial and error session. The intention was for students to get a sense of how we can trouble shoot some of the issues Revit throws back at us.

Proposed project

Start of the Revit family.

Software : Revit Architecture
Level : Intermediate / Advanced
Description : This group is building a wall system that builds up from these angled stones. Ideally as they change the angle and height of each stone the wall system would get taller.

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Software : Revit Architecture 209
Level : Beginner - Intermediate
Description : Revit Architecture 2009 is out and has some pretty cool new features. The first one I’m posting about is Sweep Blend. I cant think of a better way to explain it than saying imagine taking the blend tool and combining it with the sweep tool. It’s pretty much just that. Like in the blend you pick to shapes “profiles” to blend between except now you can o it along a path. I’m going to experiment with surface continuity by importing 3d curves from Rhino but for now this video covers the basics of how it works.

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Disclaimer: These video are from an open help session with student to work through some of the problems they are encountering making not so regular Revit Families. I stumble a bit with some of these models but it was meant to be a trial and error session. It was important for students to get a sense of how we can trouble shoot some of the issues Revit throws back at us.

Here is this groups project proposal. Please feel free to post some pointers or feedback as to how they could make the system better.

Software : Revit Architecture
Level : Intermediate / Advanced
Description : The group is making a parametric spider clip that will eventually be embedded in a curtain panel system. The problem that this group is trying to tackle is having th arm(s) of the spider clip be “self aware” of where they sit between 2 different curtain panel. we didn’t figure that part out but made some head way with reference line.

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Software : Revit Architecture
Level : Beginner
Description : Explaining some of the basic aspects of Revit. Where Levels are in the hierarchy. How walls constrain to levels , Coping in place or by level. This is just one of many tutorials that will explain fundamental aspects of Revit. Please feel free to post Question as i can answer them in future posts.

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Software : Revit Architecture
Level : Beginner
Description : Pretty basic tutorial, If you know this then it won’t effect you if you didn’t. you’ll be glad you don’t have to navigate to you project folders anymore.

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Software : Revit Architecture
Level : Beginner
Description : This tutorial covers the different methods of creating 3d geometry in Revit. I explain the pro and cons of using solid extrusion, Blend, Revolve, and sweep. These are explained within a massing object but apply to all families.

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Software : Revit Architecture
Description : This tutorial covers how to make face based families, change a family category, and make voids. face based families are pretty handy for a few reasons. a big one though is that they do do delete when you erase the host object (this is not the case with wall based and floor based) Also they are easy to move around, re-host and rotate.

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Software : Revit Architecture
Category : Reference Lines, ellipses,
Description : This tutorial covers how to use reference lines to constrain or drive radial shapes. In the past i have found this to be tricky when using Reference plane but with a reference line it is quite easy. I dont get to much into adding parameters but one could imagine using a length parameter to drive the length of the reference line as well as the ellipse.

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Software : Revit Architecture
Level : Beginner
Description : This video covers the process of exporting DWG files from Revit. We export a DWG file as a solid for Rhino and i explain the process for exporting Meshes.

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