I’ve read it somewhere that there are people who collect packaging…much like people who collect say Star Wars toys or model trains; people also collect things like old cereal packages and coke cans. Weird….anyway, in the early days of Revit I started collecting old Revit installation CD / DVD packages. I recently found a version or Revit 4.1 to add to my collection! (pre-Autodesk) Mind you I am sure there are some out there who will have versions older than 4.1.
Be sure to check out the new Project Vasari website, you will find images, forums, videos and other useful “stuff”.
You have got to check this out…..I have downloaded a copy and have started playing….weird voice over in the tutorial below…..but go with it!
This comes from a query I received recently and also extends back a few years ago; since I came up with a similar challenge creating a curtain wall system for a proof of concept project I had to do when I worked for Excitech. This really will scare the BIM purist, but it may be useful. :-)
In the example above I have used a generic model family and nested this into a curtain wall pattern based family, which in turn is loaded into a divided surface. If you build the generic model in Revit, this principle will work in Vasari as well.
What is interesting about this is you can pull points and edges of the divided surface and the panels will cut back.
This may be useful when you having to quickly produce a concept study and find it quick to build old school geometry rather than work with points and reference lines to build the panel.
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.
