Revit Architecture 2011: Mass Floors – Floor Area and Volume Calculations – Place Floor, Wall, Curtain System and Roof by Face

A tutorial on using Divide Surface, Surface Patterns and Adaptive Elements on Revit Architecture 2011.
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Fifth of the series of videos from Autodesk Student Expert group from TU Graz about Revit Architecture 2011.

This one is about using Mass Floors – Floor Area and Volume Calculations – Place Floor, Wall, Curtain System and Roof by Face. See below.


This is the last video on this series about massing from TU Graz. There are some more videos on creating walkthroughs and renderings. I'll post them here too.

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Revit Architecture 2011: Creating Curtain Panels from Patterns

A tutorial on creating curtain wall panels from patterns.
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Number 6 and 7 of the series of videos from Autodesk Student Expert group from TU Graz about Revit Architecture 2011.

These ones are about creating curtain wall panels from patterns. See the first video below.


And the next one here


One last video to come about massing, I will soon post also the videos about rendering, stay tunned!

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Revit Architecture 2011: Divide Surface, Surface Patterns and Adaptive Elements

A tutorial on using Divide Surface, Surface Patterns and Adaptive Elements on Revit Architecture 2011.
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Fifth of the series of videos from Autodesk Student Expert group from TU Graz about Revit Architecture 2011.

This one is about using Divide Surface, Surface Patterns and Adaptive Elements. See below.


More to come, stay tunned!

BTW! Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas or whatever you prefer.

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Happy Holidays!

Or as we say at home...
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Bon Nadal


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Revit Architecture 2011: Swept Blend Mass – Dissolve Mass – Spline Through Points

A tutorial on using wept Blend Mass,Dissolve Mass and Spline Through Points on Revit Architecture 2011.
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Fourth of the series of videos from Autodesk Student Expert group from TU Graz about Revit Architecture 2011.

This one is about creating Swept Blend Mass, Dissolve Mass and Spline Through Points. See below.


More to come, stay tunned!

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Revit Architecture: Louvers in Curtain Walls

How do you create Louvers in Curtain Walls
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A nice video on how to create Louvers on courtain walls. I am not sure if this is the optimal method, but it seems to work like a charm. It basically creates the louvers by creating a panel with a curtain wall pattern. See below.



I am trying to figure out if something similar can be done to create metal doors with louvers, will post about it.

Is this the best way to do it? Would you do it differently? Comment below, we will all benefit.

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Revit Architecture 2011: Reference Lines, Freeform Surface and Revolve Mass Tutorial

A tutorial on Reference Lines , freeform suraces and revolve mass on Revit.
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Third of the series of videos from Autodesk Student Expert group from TU Graz about Revit Architecture 2011.

This one is about creating Reference Lines , freeform suraces and revolve mass. See below.


More to come, stay tunned!

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Revit Architecture: How to Create Custom Stairs

A Tutorial Video from Autodesk University about creating custom stairs
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Was trying to create a custom stair for the prject I am working on with Revit and needed some help. I found this Lecture from Autodesk university 2009; it explains quite well all you need to know about the different elements and parameters to deal with when modeling stairs. Below is a screenshot of the presentation, click on it to access the video tutorial.


Cheers
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Revit Architecture 2011: Conceptual Mass and Blend Mass Tutorial

A tutorial on using massing tools and voids for creating quick site content and more.
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Second of the series of videos from Autodesk Student Expert about Revit Architecture 2011.

This one is about creating Conceptual Mass and how to add it to the model . See below.


More to come, stay tunned!

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Off Topic: New York Times interactive USA Map

See the population distribution in USA in an amazing map by hte NY Times.
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Just got this from someone on twitter and I thought I'd share. Maybe not directly related to construction, Architecture and Design, but since I guess there will be some urban planners out there reading this blog once in a while this might be interesting for them.


The image above is from Downtown Manhattan. Wondering where China Town is? Red dots show you the way!. It is pretty amazing to see how despite the great variety of peoples that USA has, the different ethnicities tend to be quite segregated and clustered.

The image below is from Baltimore, where I used to live. Being there it always surprised me how the city changed radically from one block to the next one. On the image below, see the change from green to blue along Greenmount Ave. and York Road.


Probably there are some issues created by this segregation that the local governments should try to avoid. one of my guesses in the case of Baltimore is that creating the huge areas of projects (public housing) tends to limit the possibility of mixing peoples in the city and increases segregation. But I am no specialist, let those who know more talk about it.

The two snapshots are taken form the NY Times US Census Map. It has many more options like Hosuehold income, education, etc. A pretty interesting tool.

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Revit Architecture 2011: Using Extrusion, Workplane and Voids

A Video Tutorial on how to creat mass elements in Revit for conceptual studies.A tutorial on using massing tools and voids for creating quick site content and more.
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This is the first of a series of videos from Autodesk Student Expert about Revit Architecture 2011. They are about massing tools

This one is about creating a mass element and using the extrusion tools and how to add it to the model and place it using the work plane . See below.


More to come, stay tunned!

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Location Based Management System (LBMS) and the Last Planner System (LPS)

Learn about LBMS and LPS with a free webinar by Vico
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Just got this on my mail and I actually joined the webinar. Next Friday December 17th Vico Software is hosting a free online webinar about the basics of LBMS and LPS. This seems to be just an introduction to both systems and their relationship.

LBMS is a system for planning and controling the project, using the technique that long ago helped build the Empire Estate Building in just 11 months. Vico Software has incorporated this system in their planning an control software package called Vico Control. If you want to learn more about LBMS, besides joining the webinar, you can check this link, and if you really want to get serious about it you can get this book.

The Last Planner System was developed by the Lean Construction Institute to help control building production. There are a couple of good papers available out there too. This one by Gregory Neil Associates and the Doctoral Thesis of Herman Glenn Ballard.

Both systems are worth learning if you are in the Project or Construction Management fields.
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