Thursday, February 4, 2010
I am currently working on redesigning an existing building. I have the drawings so I went ahead and set the whole thing up in Revit.
In order to start the designing process, I wanted to make an in-place mass and export this to the Conceptual Mass editor. So I started my mass, gave it a name and started modelling.
But when I tried to export it, I found no way of doing so. I tried via grouping it and exporting the group, exporting as a family, and a few other "official" ways.
So I figured, what the heck. I'll do it quick and dirty: copy & paste!
Surprisingly this worked, but only with a little trick. When I tried to copy the entire mass, it wouldn't work. But when I just grabbed the volumes I had created within the mass, I could paste them in the conceptual mass editor.
Or, to be more clear, this is what I did:
- create an in-place mass in a project file (Ribbon > Massing & Site > In-place mass), give it a name and start editing
- once done with the forms within the mass, copy the forms by selecting and pressing [ctrl] + [c]
- R > New > Conceptual Mass, select the conceptual-mass template and open
- [ctrl]+[v]
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Could I ask a favor of you? I would appreciate if you would take a look at some BIM structural fasteners I created and comment on them. I work in Autodesk Inventor, and have been asked by clients to create BIM content from the models I make for them. I have a set of their fasteners (large screws) on my website, If you would be so kind as to take a peek:
http://opendesignproject.org/BIM/FastenMaster/index.php
The Inventor versions are single iLogic models that represent an entire line... I wasn’t sure if that was possible in Revit, so I converted the Inventor files for the Revit versions. A critique would be appreciated, and help yourself to the files if they are any use to you. Have a great day…
P.S. I added your site on my links page under Revit., hope it will drive some traffic your way.
I've taken a look and I think that you are really taking the BIM-idea as far as it can go. I am very impressed.
I would propably not go quite that far myself and limit the connectors to simple lines in 2D details, for two reasons. One: when you try to model everything in 3D in Revit, Revit slows down quite badly. Two: I'm an architect and do not actually have to build the project myself. :)
And thanks for the link.