Revit

Thursday, March 03, 2011

Newforma 8th edition

Be sure to check out this review of Newforma 8th Edition, especially the Revit integration.

Link to Newforma 8th Edition Review on Aecbytes

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

I’ve had a number of requests for me to share the louver file, so here you are. Note – the scale of the family is a little screwy, I just modelled it without any thought of how it would fit in context and the naming of the embedded families is not that great, anyway I hope this helps.

Louver family download

Monday, February 28, 2011

Vasari – louvered façade

Ok, apologies, but it has been a number of few weeks since I have posted anything! Things are picking up here in London so I have been really busy, but this is really not an excuse! Anyway, I thought I’d pass this little modelling tip on to you. Somebody in the office asked me a a few weeks back whether it was possible to create a parametric louver system which could be used on a facade for a freeform building they where working on.

The louvers needed to be parametric so that they could adjust the angle of the louvers as and when required, to meet the environmental conditions.

So I knocked this solution up with the user sat at my desk inside 10 minutes using a combination of points, nested adaptive components and curtain wall pattern based families. The original example was completed in Revit Architecture 2011, but the youtube video was done in Vasari 1.1. Sorry, there is no sound / voice over, but hopefully I have done the exercise slow enough for you to follow along!