Revit Conceptual Modeling Environment (Paul F. Aubin)

On June 16, 2021

Release date:2021, June 11

Author:Paul F. Aubin

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Learning the basics of model building in Revit is mostly quick and easy. The essentials of core elements such as walls, floor, and roofs are accessible and fairly intuitive. For more unique and specialized design challenges, discovering appropriate tools and techniques can be more challenging. Many advanced modeling techniques are available, and some are more obvious and intuitive than others. In this course, Paul F. Aubin dives deep into the tools that the Revit conceptual modeling environment has to offer. Whether you want to do a simple building massing study or pro forma analysis, or delve deep into complex shapes and forms like lofted forms, free-form geometry, patterning and repeat tools, the massing environment offers these and many more. Paul mixes standard techniques and outside-the-box thinking as he explores many ways to take your Revit modeling skills to the next level.

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001 Welcome to the Conceptual Modeling Environment
002 Identifying modeling environments
003 Access the Conceptual Modeling Environment
004 Understanding the Massing Environment
005 Creating common massing forms
006 Building an in-place mass
007 Manipulating forms
008 Editing profiles and edges
009 Using X-Ray and Dissolve
010 Understanding reference-based and model-based lines
011 Importing a site image
012 Using DynaMaps to import site data
013 Configuring a Revit site model
014 Copying between project and massing files
015 Setting up a massing file
016 Adding levels to conceptual mass families
017 Sculpting the basic building block
018 Cutting mass floors and pro forma calculations
019 Modifying building mass forms
020 Applying geometry to massing surfaces
021 Modeling with standard building blocks
022 Cutting solids with solids
023 Understanding divided surfaces
024 Loading a conceptual model into a project
025 Divided surface properties
026 Divided surface pattern application properties
027 Dividing and configuring many surfaces
028 Creating a custom panel family
029 Reference line and point relationships
030 Establishing nested point hosting behavior
031 Adding geometry to a flexible rig
032 Creating seamless panels
033 Building a complex space frame family rig
034 Building geometry and considering overlap at edges
035 Using parameters to drive intent
036 Making a curtain panel with parametric options
037 Making a void form parametric
038 Stitching borders of divided surfaces
039 Editing manually stitched adaptive component edges
040 Exploring advanced stitching strategies
041 Using Dynamo to stitch edge conditions
042 Using Dynamo Player and manual stitching
043 Placing a massing study in a project
044 Working with reporting parameters
045 Understanding adaptive points
046 Knowing when to use adaptive components
047 Using a nested family as a profile
048 Using an adaptive component as a profile
049 Designing a custom element with an adaptive component
050 Choosing the appropriate spline
051 Creating the canopy splines
052 Approaches to creating a roof surface
053 Building a rig for shaping custom beams
054 Using intersecting geometry to create custom 3D paths
055 Uncutting a void from hard-to-select geometry
056 Creating geometry along the edge of other geometry
057 Understanding divided paths
058 Understanding hosted component orientation
059 Creating repeaters
060 Using repeaters in project with in-place massing
061 Using repeaters with paths and surfaces to create form
062 Building an adaptive rig for a custom repeater
063 Building a custom repeater from an adaptive rig
064 Incorporate divided paths in custom adaptive patterns
065 Creating a flexible void family with formula limits
066 Creating an attractor using a repeater
067 Sample projects
068 Whats next_