"New" Blog - Curtainwall BIM

Last week I posted a tutorial about creating butt glazing in Revit.   Well, a wonderful reader named Jon sent me an insanely detailed email.  Jon is a BIM manager at a curtwainwall manufacturing company... Using Revit for shop drawings!  COOL!

Anyways, Jon sent me a great detailed email about some of the "real-world" issues that my curtain wall had.  For example: "In the real world, the horizontal captured mullion butts against the vertical, but the cap (the extruded element that is in front of the glass) extends to the grid line"...

 As much as I appreciated Jon's detail it was a little TOO detailed for me.  But, if you are interested in how to make curtainwalls that can basically be fabricated directly out of Revit (and shop drawings in Revit) then check out Jon's blog.  He does not have a million posts but they are high quality tutorials specific to curtainwall / storefronts.

Click here to check out CurtainwallBIM...

Cheers Jon!!

Future Plus Design - Gallery of Student Work

A colleague of mine sent me the link to a new website.  I will let their description do the talking but it looks promising.

We are a group of recent architecture school graduates. We know what it’s like to be in studio all night, working, trying to find that spark of inspiration. We know how great of a help it is to be able to talk to people about your ideas, to get feedback, see how their design process works, and what you can learn from them
With that in mind, we started this website. Even though your review might be over, there’s still more you can learn from your project, more you can implement in your next iteration. We want to create a space where you can share your work with an infinitely large community, like a studio with an ever growing student body. Show your stuff after your review, get feedback your critics might have missed, learn what someone else might have done to take the project in a different direction.
Right now, that is our goal here, to create a space where we can share projects and learn from each other. We have other ideas, and a broader scope for the future, but for the time being, we want to help get your projects out there, and help you with your projects.

I encourage you all to check it out (especially other students like myself).

Thanks for the link Dave!

New Revit Blog - RevitCAT

I always love adding new Revit blogs to my feed readers... And you should too.  Thanks to Steve for the first link to Tim's blog...

RevitCAT
Welcome to yet another blog about all things Revit. I do not intend to compete with all those other blogs out there, so I will only post occasionally - whenever I discover something that was not already documented elsewhere.


 There are already some cool videos up so check it out...

Good Luck RevitCAT!

New Blog: Under NDA

As many of you may remember I love learning things that boggle my mind (See Calculus Final).  David Light, over at Revit, introduced a new blog called Under NDA.  From what I have seen this is going to be quite an interesting blog to follow.  Fair warning... It will not be for the faint at heart.  If calculus, algorithms, and the overall unknown scare you to the point where you cannot sleep at night I suggest staying away.

Welcome to Under NDA:


The coming posts will (hopefully) explain my thinking: I've read a lot about using Genetic Algorithm in an architectural design process, combining the "analytical approach to Design" that Prof. Baudizzone taught me in Uni, back in 1997. Yet I never got it implemented - the closest I got to it was a GWBASIC program for a Museum competition, that was not really using Genetic optimization.


Will, the author of Under NDA, already has two posts up (one of which already blows my mind and feeds my cravings).  Welcome to the blogging world and I hope The Revit Kid.com's readers will be good to you. 


Click here to go to Under NDA's blog and follow him/subscribe or whatever...