BIM Project Presentation

Creating Masses in Revit

This week in BIM, we were asked to follow a couple of tutorial videos that go through the process of creating a mass in Revit and then making floors out of that mass.

This screen shot shows the creation of a rectangular solid.

This shot shows the use of a spline to create the shape and then revolved around an axis to create the solid shape.

This shot shows the lofting between two different shapes.

This image is one of, once again creating a spline and then telling a circular surface to follow that spline.

A neat thing you can do in Revit, when working with masses, is that you can create a mass and then take its points and drag, drop, pull and push to create a different mass.

Creating a mass in Revit is like creating the basic mass of a building, you can then take it into project mode and make it more 'building' like.

You can make 20 floors out of the mass.

And then you can tell Revit to create floor plates out of that division it created earlier.

Working with Revit

Placing Interior walls

Moving walls into place

Coping walls

Adding Doors

3D View

Adding Fixtures

Mirror Tool

Adding Stair

Section Cut

Schedules

Working with Revit

Placing Interior walls

Moving walls into place

Defining BIM

Building Information Modeling is a 3D model building engine that uses geometric information, spatial relationships and properties of building components to demonstrate a buildings entire life cycle and its impacts to its surrounding environment. From the first sketch to the final construction piece and further into when a component needs to be changed or replenished. Furthermore, it can be used and understood by anyone that is involved in the process of building. The architects, structural engineers, systems engineers, builders and on to the owners; with BIM they all understand how the building is becomes operational.



The image above comes from http://metalbuildingss.com/2011/05/12/building-information-modeling/