Revit Tutorial - More Helix Stuff

If you have followed my blog you know how many Helix type tutorials there are out there... if you are new just search helix on the right hand side of this page.   Well, here is another one from David Light:

Creating a helix using Adaptive components in Revit 2011

A few months back I looked at how to create a helix in Revit 2010 without the need of any heavy math. Zach Krone and BIM troublemaker did similar examples on there blogs with varying degrees of complexity.

So I figured the other day that there must be a smarter way to do this in Revit 2011 with the new adaptive component tool. Take a look at the youtube Video for more info.

Click here for the post and the rest of the tutorial...

Revit Elevation/Section View Depth Clipping Workaround

Cool little video over at RevitRants:

Hello readers,

This is another one of those workarounds that I've been doing for a while and wasn't aware that a lot of people didn't know of it. Its a very quick method to creating depth in your elevations/sections without adding masses, using the linework tool, or utilising shadows. (although in Revit 2010, with directx turned on printing of views with shadows has improved exponentially!).
Click here to see the post and video...

This is my first attempt at uploading a video so please let me know if people have any difficulties viewing. It has been encoded using the Techsmith codec. TSCC in AVI format.

Thanks for the video Chris!

Revit 2010 - Massing Tutorial

Quick little video I found on youtube showing the collaboration between Autocad 2010 and Revit 2010. I wanted to post this mainly to show how easily he turned the mass into walls and curtain systems. Very Cool.

The Power of BIM

A cool video I found.  Looks to be for a firm but has some great animations and visualizations... 

Take what you will from it... I think its cool..

To Model, or Not to Model?

I handed in a project I did in Revit for a Structures class and received a few questions about it. Using this project as an example I would like to address one question I was asked by a few people:

"How did you model every single CMU block and the bond beam?!"

Well the answer is simple... I didn't. Click the link below to view the tip/tutorial.

Detail Components... A short run through.