Revit: Conceptual Modeling Environment

Learn about advanced modeling tools and techniques for Revit

Introduction

• Welcome to the Conceptual Modeling Environment

1. Getting Started with the Massing Environment

• Identifying modeling environments
• Access the Conceptual Modeling Environment
• Understanding the Massing Environment
• Creating common massing forms
• Building an in-place mass
• Manipulating forms
• Editing profiles and edges
• Using X-Ray and Dissolve
• Understanding reference-based and model-based lines

2. Using Massing to Design Building Forms

• Importing a site image
• Using DynaMaps to import site data
• Configuring a Revit site model
• Copying between project and massing files
• Setting up a massing file
• Adding levels to conceptual mass families
• Sculpting the basic building block
• Cutting mass floors and pro forma calculations
• Modifying building mass forms
• Applying geometry to massing surfaces
• Modeling with standard building blocks
• Cutting solids with solids

3. Rationalizing Massing Forms

• Understanding divided surfaces
• Loading a conceptual model into a project
• Divided surface properties
• Divided surface pattern application properties
• Dividing and configuring many surfaces
• Creating a custom panel family

4. Building Custom Pattern-Based Panel Components

• Reference line and point relationships
• Establishing nested point hosting behavior
• Adding geometry to a flexible rig
• Creating seamless panels
• Building a complex space frame family rig
• Building geometry and considering overlap at edges
• Using parameters to drive intent
• Making a curtain panel with parametric options
• Making a void form parametric

5. Refining Panelized Designs

• Stitching borders of divided surfaces
• Editing manually stitched adaptive component edges
• Exploring advanced stitching strategies
• Using Dynamo to stitch edge conditions
• Using Dynamo Player and manual stitching
• Placing a massing study in a project
• Working with reporting parameters

6. Generic Modeling with the Conceptual Modeling Environment

• Understanding adaptive points
• Knowing when to use adaptive components
• Using a nested family as a profile
• Using an adaptive component as a profile
• Designing a custom element with an adaptive component
• Choosing the appropriate spline
• Creating the canopy splines
• Approaches to creating a roof surface
• Building a rig for shaping custom beams
• Using intersecting geometry to create custom 3D paths
• Uncutting a void from hard-to-select geometry
• Creating geometry along the edge of other geometry

7. Divided Paths and Repeaters

• Understanding divided paths
• Understanding hosted component orientation
• Creating repeaters
• Using repeaters in project with in-place massing
• Using repeaters with paths and surfaces to create form
• Building an adaptive rig for a custom repeater
• Building a custom repeater from an adaptive rig
• Incorporate divided paths in custom adaptive patterns
• Creating a flexible void family with formula limits
• Creating an attractor using a repeater
• Sample projects

Conclusion

• What's next?