Ok! So I have tried this (a lot!) but the only way I can host the cylinder is if when vertical, my start angle will be 90 degrees. I have tried drawing a rectangular/square extrusion first and hosting my cylinder extrusion to that but the model breaks. Any suggestions would be really appreciated!
Hi, this is awesome! I have a question tho. Would it be possible to apply this in 2 directions? I mean that it could rotate from North to South and from East to West. I am working in a photovoltaic proyect and I am trying to create a family of 2x14 solar panels and I don't know how to create the second orientation. I just get the North/South...
Yes, to some extent... You can host a new revolve to the other revolve For something where you need THAT much flexibility you may need to look into the conceptual massing environment as you can host points to spheres.... 😏
hey thanks for the great content! by the way I'm not able to find the family to download. I appreciate it if you could let me know how to do it. Thanks
@@TheRevitKid I've been trying to use the revolve on the hinge of a door and place it as a nested family as an instance parameter so that each door can be displayed as either fully closed or open to a certain degree. Also to att limits to the degree of swing
@@TheRevitKid Sorry Im new to revit. I've tried locking in my nested door panel into the door family. The Panel keep breaking from the revolve. Then Ive tried locking ref planes to the revolve and locking the nested door panel to the ref plane and unfornatly no luck. Not too sure what im doing incorrectly. This is literally the 1st time Im attempting creating this family. Been struggling with this for weeks now by trying many many different methods.
@@shikharn22 no apologies necessary … you want to make sure your door panel family is face based… then place it on the face of the revolve. If you’re not sure what that means look up some videos on face based Revit families. Cheers!
i just downloaded the bracket and I noticed that the rotation is not matching the pivot point (bolt) . As a concept to control rotation is great but the family is not right.
Fernando Lino hey man thanks for checking out the tutorial and downloading the family. I learned after building that family (which i built a long time ago) that the direction you create your revolve effects the way the angles are driven. You’ll notice in the family that i created a formula to fix this so what you type is in fact what you get. You’ll notice in the tutorial above I draw the revolve in the front video and the profile above the axis. This allows for a correct type in with no formula. Cheers!
@@TheRevitKid sorry I am a slow learner, the techniue and the concept is absolutely awesome, but I'm having trouble catching up to the final thing. So many other components are there and if you could help out at least through a quick sequence of the things, it'll help to understand why you're doing what you're doing. Anyway, thanks.
@@Dgr8Basak Fair enough... this tutorial was meant to show you the angle technique and not the entire family from start to finish... Check out all of my family creation videos here on youtube for more in depth stuff!
Many Thanks for sharing, and many thanks for Marcello for the idea.. simply brilliant!
For real!!! Thank you!
great video! angled parameters have always been the worst until now.
t3zzz2000 so happy it will help!!
Awesome bud, I'm detailing a pergola and they want brackets very similar to these. Super helpful, you have a new subscriber.. very nice.
BEAUTIFUL... THANKS FOR SHARING THAT
amazing , i owe you sir
It’s on the house 😜
Very clever.
Muy buena técnica, muchas gracias!
Brilliant!
Brilliant video, thanks for the demonstration! Any ideas how you would achieve the same results except using a cylinder extrusion instead?
It would be exactly the same! Just host the cylinder to the face of the revolve!
@@TheRevitKid Thanks for the quick reply! Will give it a shot :)
Ok! So I have tried this (a lot!) but the only way I can host the cylinder is if when vertical, my start angle will be 90 degrees. I have tried drawing a rectangular/square extrusion first and hosting my cylinder extrusion to that but the model breaks. Any suggestions would be really appreciated!
Francis Kelly - shoot me an email with some snips so i understand your issue better...
Awesome work 💯
Hi, I'm taught to use trigonometric method. It works too, but I have no idea if it will break. This method looks awesome too.
Trigonometry is cool. :)
Boy this is great. Can you bring in a family angle and lock it to the revolve? Seems like it will not align to the angle surface?
Yes! 100%
you are jenius
Hi, this is awesome! I have a question tho. Would it be possible to apply this in 2 directions? I mean that it could rotate from North to South and from East to West.
I am working in a photovoltaic proyect and I am trying to create a family of 2x14 solar panels and I don't know how to create the second orientation. I just get the North/South...
Yes, to some extent... You can host a new revolve to the other revolve For something where you need THAT much flexibility you may need to look into the conceptual massing environment as you can host points to spheres.... 😏
That is genius!
hey thanks for the great content! by the way I'm not able to find the family to download. I appreciate it if you could let me know how to do it. Thanks
The family is only available to members of the BIM After Dark Community... You can join here (community.bimafterdark.com)
very perfect👍
I used this for rotating louvers
I'm not seeing the link to the bracket family.
Do you have the bracket link In You web page ?
It is available to members of my community... community.bimafterdark.com .... otherwise, you can make it !! :)
You could share the download link with me, because it is not available is that you leave in the description
I will fix the download link ASAP.
Thanks, I've been trying to use this method in a door family but theres something thats not working. is anyone able to assist?
You’ll need to be a bit more specific with your issue … ?
@@TheRevitKid I've been trying to use the revolve on the hinge of a door and place it as a nested family as an instance parameter so that each door can be displayed as either fully closed or open to a certain degree. Also to att limits to the degree of swing
@@shikharn22 okay. Got that. Can you explain further the problem you are having?
@@TheRevitKid Sorry Im new to revit. I've tried locking in my nested door panel into the door family. The Panel keep breaking from the revolve. Then Ive tried locking ref planes to the revolve and locking the nested door panel to the ref plane and unfornatly no luck. Not too sure what im doing incorrectly. This is literally the 1st time Im attempting creating this family. Been struggling with this for weeks now by trying many many different methods.
@@shikharn22 no apologies necessary … you want to make sure your door panel family is face based… then place it on the face of the revolve. If you’re not sure what that means look up some videos on face based Revit families. Cheers!
i just downloaded the bracket and I noticed that the rotation is not matching the pivot point (bolt) . As a concept to control rotation is great but the family is not right.
Fernando Lino hey man thanks for checking out the tutorial and downloading the family. I learned after building that family (which i built a long time ago) that the direction you create your revolve effects the way the angles are driven. You’ll notice in the family that i created a formula to fix this so what you type is in fact what you get. You’ll notice in the tutorial above I draw the revolve in the front video and the profile above the axis. This allows for a correct type in with no formula. Cheers!
Can you please show in greater depth? This barely covered it :(
I am sorry this was not enough detail for you... It seems to be helping many others understand the technique!
@@TheRevitKid sorry I am a slow learner, the techniue and the concept is absolutely awesome, but I'm having trouble catching up to the final thing. So many other components are there and if you could help out at least through a quick sequence of the things, it'll help to understand why you're doing what you're doing. Anyway, thanks.
@@Dgr8Basak Fair enough... this tutorial was meant to show you the angle technique and not the entire family from start to finish... Check out all of my family creation videos here on youtube for more in depth stuff!
I having a problem aligning a L angle from the Revit family and locking it. Is this possible?