Revit 4 - Façade and Cladding Designs

Duration: 16 hours

Teaching Methodology: Hands on

Course Schedule: Schedule

Fees $350

Course Mode: Blended Face-to-face or online via Zoom

DESCRIPTION

Revit has advanced modeling capabilities that allows you to create complex and patterned geometries such as arums, checkered panels, organic curtain panels, masharabiya panels, and classical architecture.

OVERVIEW

Participants who take this course will learn how to:

Create patterned geometries using adaptive components
Constrain curves
Construct a Tuscan Order
Manage Graphics
Construct a Doric Order
Create the Entablature of the Doric Order
Build an Iconic Column Capital
Create traditional forms in massing
Create shaft families
Manage files

AUDIENCE

Advanced Revit users.

PREREQUISITES

Revit Fundamentals for All Disciplines course and Revit Advanced for All Disciplines.

COURSE CONTENTS

01 - creating arums

Introduction to Adaptive Components
Creating Folding Panels

02 - creating checkered patterns

Creating Curtain Panel Pattern Based Family
Creating Conceptual Mass
Using the Curtain Pattern Based Family to Build the Checkered Panel family

03 - creating a complex cladding system

Creating Curtain Panel Pattern Based Family
Creating the Mass Family
Creating the Panels

04 - Creating panels for the office building and showroom

Creating Curtain Panel Pattern Based Family
Creating Conceptual Mass
Creating the Panels

05 - Creating Msharabiya panels

Creating Curtain Panel Pattern Based Family
Creating Conceptual Mass
Creating the Panels

06 - constraining curves

Curvature in the Traditional Family Editor
Creating a Parametric Circle
Dimensioning
Create Geometry

07 - the tuscan base and capital

Build the Tuscan Capital
Create the Abacus
Create the Ovolo Modeling
Create the Corona Modeling
Build the Tuscan Base
Create the Lower Modeling Geometry

08 - completing the tuscan order

The Tuscan Shaft
Creating the Framework
Create the Astragal Molding
Create the Shaft as a Sweep
Assemble the Tuscan Columns
Creating the Tuscan Entablature

09 - managing graphics

Column Plan Display
Making the Columns Solid
Reference Plane Settings
Working with Level of Details
Materials

10 - the doric column

Create the Schematic Doric
Create the Doric Capital
Create the Doric Shaft
Create the Doric Base
Create the Doric Pedestal

11 - the doric entablature

Beams
Curtain Walls
Railings
Cornice
Array

12 - The ionic order

The Ionic Capital
The Ionic Volute
The Scrolls
The Collar

13 - the massing environment

Creating Form
Creating a Massing Profile
Building Rigs
Round Colonnade

14 - the column shaft

Entasis and Diminution
Fluted Doric Shaft
Create the Shaft

15 - the corinthian capital

The Corinthian Dataset
The Abacus and Drum
Acanthus Leaves
Corinthian Volutes
Flouret
Assemble the Capital

16 - File management techniques

Export to CAD
Create a Capital Family
Backups