Good Looking, Fully Organic, All Natural, "NURBS" in Revit (w/Tim Waldock)

 

On last night's episode of BIM After Dark Live I am excited to have Tim Waldock (of the Revit Cat blog) on the show.  I've been following Tim's blog for many years and I have always loved the way he dives into the nitty gritty details of Revit features and functions.

Tim will be demonstrating some of the awesome techniques he has developed for creating super smooth, good looking, organic forms in Revit.   

When I say organic, I literally mean he showed us how to model some vegetables (or a fruit?)...  

Revit isn't known for being able to display super smooth "NURBS" type of shapes but Tim has some tips and tricks to help you out.  From random blob shapes to beautiful modern furniture, I guarantee you'll find a use for what Tim has to show.

Continue reading to view the episode and see any related links mentioned....

Revit Tutorial - Adaptive Fabric Roof Canopy Introduction

Adaptive components are a topic in high demand by the readers of this blog.  Due to this demand, I knew I had to dedicate a section of BIM After Dark - Volume 3 to adaptive components.  Similar to the rest of the series, I start by teaching you how to make a practical family that introduces the foundations of adaptive components.  Then, we build on these concepts and add some complexities such as parameters and hosting to a divided surface (giving you the ability to make forms similar to "The Web", which is also demonstrated in the series as a case study).

Continue reading to view a tutorial extracted directly from Volume 3 that demonstrates the principles of an adaptive component while building a fabric canopy...

Revit Tutorial - Massing and Adaptive Components (Marcello at PDX Rug)

Marcello stopped by pdxRUG on his way home from RTC and gave a lecture about massing and adaptive components.  The screen is a bit hard to see but if you are interested in the world of massing and adaptive components check it out:

Revit Tutorial - Creating a Tree with Adaptive Components (Revit Swat)

I'm not sure if this will replace RPC trees or photshopping trees after rendering but it is a very cool technique and will improve your knowledge and skills with adaptive components.

This tutorial was created over at Revit Swat (a blog that was started sometime last year and has some god content you should all check out.... Not to mention the website template is very easy on the eyes).

Click here to see the tutorial...

Revit Tutorials - Adaptive Components (The Revit Geek)

I had the pleasure of meeting Brian Mackey (of The Revit Geek and Mackey Consulting) at RTC North America last year.  He is a great guy and I can't wait to catch up again soon at some conferences this year!  Luke, over at What Revit Wants, posted a link to some video tutorials that Brian posted.   The videos talk about adaptive components...

Adaptive components are under the category of "don't really need to know" for most people... Until you need to know them!  I promise you will not regret becoming farmiliar with adaptive components and these videos are a start...

Revit Tutorial - Adaptive Components

I am not sure where Luke found this but it is an awesome full length video about adaptive components. Even if you are new to Revit or just diving into family creation I would give this a look... In fact, if you are just diving into family creation I would learn both "primitive" family creation (I think I might coin that term) and adaptive at the same time.

Click here to view the adaptive component tutorial....

Revit Tutorial (Vasari) - Adaptive Components (Design Reform)

The very first Revit video I ever watched was a Design Reform, David Fano, video... I had the pleasure of taking his class at AU and here are a couple little videos that dive a bit into the world of adaptive components:

• Design Reform - Vasari Adaptive Component Massing Part 1
• Design Reform - Vasari Adaptive Component Massing Part 1

Go check out his website!

Revit Tutorial - Adaptive Components (Design Reform)

Three or four years ago when I began learning/exploring the world of Revit there were very few resources for video tutorials (especially FREE tutorials).  David, over at Design Reform taught me a lot of the more advanced things I know about Revit thanks to his great tutorials.  Well, he is BACK!  After a long while of a post here and there, David created a very useful tutorial:

Autodesk Revit 2011 – Intro to Adaptive Components

Software: Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011

Description: In this Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 training video, we’ll cover the basics of how to build an adaptive component.  This is not the traditional or expected use.  This video used the adaptive component to construct a mass.  That being said the logic can be used independence of scale (from a panel to a mass).

Here is the file i created

Topics Covered:

• Adaptive Components
• Mass Families
• Reference Planes

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Tutorial - Adaptive Components

Some more genious work by Zach over at Buildz:

Adaptive Components: The Frame

This is a work flow that the Conceptual Modeling team looked at while developing the new Adaptive Component toolset.

This particular construction method was first attempted by Rahul, the brains behind much of the Adaptive Components code and one of the many hard working developers at the factory to whom I sacrifice a goat every full moon. (Look for the infinitely extended intersection line hack, this will start showing up more and more.)

Generally, this tutorial (in 2 parts) is riffing on a project that has been done in Catia/Digital Project and Inventor. For these examples, check out the posts on DesignReform



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