BIM DIARY: WEEK 05

CUT, CURTAIN WALL MAKING, DESIGN OPTIONS & PHRASING

It was a short Revit training this week due to busy schedule in our own office and Labour day.

First thing to do was sharping up my skills in Generic modelling- creating curtain walls with several ways, including extrusion and void, wall type, and array.

While trying to fill in more detail into the model, I discovered some useful tools like design options and phrasing- the tool to allow you to categorize things you've wanna show in your model, especially when you are sending it to the client. What it does best is hiding elements whenever you want it to hide, and group these hidden elements at your will. To illustrate, when your client asked for two options on the facade of a same building, you can create options by grouping them into Option 1, Option 2, and so on. Unlike using Mr.S, I normally will duplicate models of the same building in Mr.S and then starting to edit each and every one of them. Doing that might just increase the size of the model that you're working on and eventually lead to the risk of crashing/lagging.

Another useful tool I've learned was the 'cut' key. It's simple and it literally means cutting a model line into two (sounds funny haha). By doing that, you can delete the lines you do not need while making sure the other lines are still connected.

So,
Nothing much to conclude for this week, but my guardian is taking me to the next level of the design process ( All designer might already know what it means) next week. Yes, from Revit model to rendering. Stay tuned!