Revit Tutorial (Day 32) - Organic Massing Exercise

(Self-isolation Day 32)
Today let's play a little bit more of Massing modeling in Revit.
Steps:
1. Create a Mass.
2. Draw a spline to shape, close with spline through points.
3. Create form, add profiles, adjust to achieve the shape. In this exercise, I just scaled those profiles.
4. Finish the mass, then crate Mass Floors.
5. The next step is to make the curtain walls, but we can't pick the spline edge of the floors. So we need to export the site plan(edge of the floors) to a DWG file.
6. Open the DWG file, use Flatten command and turn the splines into Polylines.
7. Save the DWG file.
8. Link the DWG back to Revit, now we can create walls from picking these lines.
9. Also, create architecture floors from the mass floors and that's it.
Hope you like it.

[@altamisafham]

so to create curvey curtain wall we must export it to cad first?

[@BINHE615]

No, you can model them directly. But there is no spline option for it. I will check Revit 2023 since this is more than 3 years old.

[@victorliu4158]

Thanks for ur help!

[@NeutronEpiphyllum]

I don't know why I can't select the polyline in the linked-CAD as a whole, I tab through it, not working.

[@BINHE615]

I'm not sure.... Maybe try to explode the polyline in AutoCAD?

[@NeutronEpiphyllum]

@@BINHE615 Explode is not working, but thank you for your reply. Your work is amazing, I will walk through all of your videos. 谢谢！

[@BINHE615]

No problems. I had another try (Export spline to DWG - use Flatten command in AutoCAD to make it a polyline, and save the DWG - Link the DWG into Revit - Place wall and Tab+Pick the whole) and it works.

[@peshawakurd234]

dont use shortcuts we are not like yoyu

[@BINHE615]

jesse Pinkman There are not too many shortcuts in Revit. I suggest you have a look of the list and try to remember as much as possible. The reason I have those key stroke showing on my screen is to show you how to use Revit more efficiently.

[@peshawakurd234]

@@BINHE615 those key strokes wont help and i was tryig to do this video but there are some shirtcuts you do for example after the extrusion i didnt know how you made the shape collapse and no one understands those speed workings