The purpose of this series of posts is to cover some of the different workflow options between Autodesk Revit Architecture & Rhino and discuss topics that we should take into consideration when using both applications.įirst, let’s make a general differentiation between both programs: Joe is a wealth of information about what it going on in offices as well as what is being developed in the factory. He is trained as an architect and joined Revit Technology in 2000, and subsequently Autodesk in 2002. Joe works at Autodesk as a Customer Success Engineer for Revit Architecture. This will be a series of four posts dealing with importing and managing geometry from Rhinoceros, McNeel and Associate’s popular nurbs modeling platform.
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We need to simplify, isolate variables, abstract the problem to achieve meaningful results.Buildz is very pleased to welcome back Joe Kendsersky for more posts full of tips and best practices in Revit. Is more better? Should you include more variables? Will that lead to deeper understanding. We are tempted to believe that more is better. It’s a screen capture, of a view, generated from a database, abstracted into the form of electrical impulses. Oh yes ? Just like magritte who paints real paintings of real pipes on the surface of his canvas. "We don’t draw any more we build real buildings inside the computer". There is a danger of thinking a Revit model is not a diagram Then you realise its not a pipe, it’s a painting. Check back to the first post "this is not a serious building" (could have been this is not the ANC HQ)Īt first sight you think it’s a play on words. So now I am referencing Magrittes famous "this is not a pipe" painting. For once those annoying seams that Revit makes came in useful :) I can hang rungs on them. I call this my "tin can rig" A bit simpler than a box. The arms are cylindrical so why not start the hand that way. This stuff is from the long Eid break, starting a couple of weeks ago.
What's that phrase ? Global is the new local. I toyed with the idea of making the trip, but it didn't work out. My daughter Wendy will hop across from New York to join them for the weekend. My younger son Tom is in the air, on his way to California to meet up with my older son Joe, grandson Jack & daughter-in-law Yanela. Now I am up and buzzing with the excitement and uncertainty of having 2 days to pull all this stuff together into a coherent pumpkin submission. I arrived home for the weekend about 7 hours ago, pretty much exhausted from another hectic week. that's what makes it so good, the ups and the downs (did I forget to list the ups :)įriday, 3.30 am. It's also frustrating, confusing, disappointing, nerve racking. I had this same issue with a face based family for placing grooved titles on my book covers. I suppose you could lock the wall to ref planes so that it automatically grows with the opening. You make a window that works fine for ages and ages, then suddenly you decide to make a really big one and everything goes wrong. I was very puzzled when I first came across this. If you want to make a really big door or window, you may need to stretch the wall inside the family so that there is still something left. Interesting thing about hosted families, even though the host inside the family is just a "stand-in" it's size has a limiting effect. Why not use Philip Chan's trick of the face-based model text family that cuts into another. The books were looking a bit blank & I got the idea of making a halloween connection via their titles. But the other 2 need a good deal more attention. Would have loved to spend more time playing with this aspect, but we really must get back to the "END PRODUCT" Which at the moment is 3 Escheresque images.