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]
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
As I have already mentioned, we are switching CAD-packages at the moment. That means that we have a quite extensive library in the old system, but not much for Revit. For the most part, they are not compatible, since Revit is 3D, whereas our old system was 2D.
There are a few areas however, where the old symbold are still valid. One example are cars and trucks in situation drawing.
So I figured I export the truck as dxf, import it into a line-based detail family, draw over the lines and save. Little did I know that this can be done so quickly.
The trick? The line picking tool:
Since dxf is line based (duh!) this tool actually finds the lines in the imported dxf-file. So all I have to do is to select the lines I need and they get drawn! (the magenta lines are the original dxf, the black ones I "drew")
I am loving this!
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