Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Conceptual Modeling 1: Revit Mass Model

So here is a quick primer on pulling up a cad file into a massing study using the massing toolset in Revit.

There are a couple of notes to this. First, I attempted this workflow by starting a massing model as a conceptual massing family and then bringing it into Revit, but I'm pretty sure you can start an in-place mass in a new project itself and go from there. There maybe some issues and I think it is probably worth exploring the differences. But for now, I'm trying to hew to this workflow until I can suss out the pros and cons.

The other thing is that the massing toolset is wider and deeper than what I have gotten into here, and I will definetely post some more tutorials on some of the other features. My point here was to show how quickly and easily you can develop more or less conventional massing studies and push the process forward. This is about being able to transition from concept to viz in time to be able to double back and move into the next iteration.


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