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I recently posted about converting Topography to massing forms using a somewhat “manual”, yet lofted and smooth, method:Convert Revit Topography into Massing Forms Harry provides some code to do a sim…
Have you ever wanted to rationalise your Topography as a Massing form, perhaps so you could use Divided Surface and panelization tools on the topo? Here is one method: Make a Site family with a vertic…
You will need to join pdxRUG to download. And yes, it has more than 100 pages:http://files.meetup.com/6696572/Mass_class_PDXRUG_handout_by_marcello_Sgambelluri.pdf Embedded video of the July 2013 meet…
Open embedded content: www.youtube.com viaLos Angeles Revit Users Group Blog: Marcello at Portland’s PDXrug | Gotta Share The R.U.G. Love…
Recent post by Jay Holland demonstrates the methodology they adopted to create the Revit model for a multilevel residential project. As it had lots of repeatable elements, its interesting to hear how …
Make a rectangular extrusion form Make a revolve form using funny looking profile shown above – switch to void Cut geometry, and then adjust grips as necessary to make it look nice Download the file (…
You will find below a visual diary of some site master planning options – the Divide and Repeat tool was used to layout out the units. Here is a very concise how-to: Make a new Mass or Adaptive family…
If you want to know more, contact NMcClure @apertedesign Using #Revit Conceptual Mass families for programmatic stack diagrams – takes a bit of massaging btwn .rfa and .rvt, but works great! 7:46 AM –…
At RTCUSA 2011, Kelly Cone presented on the subject Revit Conceptual Massing on a REAL Project. He has uploaded related content and linked to it from his blog. about 700 mb of content here via Kelly C…
David Light has put together an excellent, concise set of videos describing how to make various forms using the 2011 massing tools. Back to Basics – Conceptual Masses in Revit 2011…