Thought I'd share these with images with you. I took the panel pyramid from last weeks post and added a height parameter to the panel. This allowed me to adjust the apex of the pyramid. I then just loaded the family back into the massing family, adjusted the panel height parameter to give me a really spikey form!
Jeremy Tammik's Building Coder blog has a amazing article on form creation using the API in Revit Architecture 2010. Not being a programmer, most of its gone over my head (need to get on a API class I think!!). But check it out here.....
http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2009/07/revit-form-creation-api.html
One of the cool new features in Revit Architecture 2010 is the new curtain wall pattern based family. If anybody has seen Zach Kron's Buildz blog you will have seen some of the cool stuff he does with this new family. Now a few years ago I remember playing with curtain wall panels (old school Revit) and trying to create a spikey hedgehog type form. The trouble back then was it was not possible to build a cw panel the would fit into a double curved surface.
Fast forward to Revit 2010 and its finally possible!
Take a look at this video on how I created the panel above. I hope you find this useful.
Here is an interesting challenge that somebody gave me last week. How can you create a extruded tube in 2010 and then shear the tube so that the circles that make up the tube remain concentric top and bottom? After thinking about it, I came up with this as a solution. A combination of points and reference lines will solve the problem. Enjoy. :-)
As part of Autodesk's ongoing commitment to sustainability, they have released a technology preview of a Solar Radiation tool for Revit Architecture and Revit MEP 2010. You will need to make sure that you have web update 1 installed, but the preview can be downloaded from the Autodesk Labs web site.
http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/ecotect/
This is an exciting development, because for the first time the architect will have graphical analysis tools embedded within the Revit Architecture environment.
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