Specialty walls

[Sawyer]

Is there anyone that think they could help with a project I am having trouble with? Basically I need walls to do things that I don't know how to make them do.

 

Thanks

 

Sawyer

[Claudio Branch]

What are the dimensions of this thing supposed to be?

 

This form could easily be modeled in a parametric modeler or even in AutoCAD and then exported as an stl file or just import the layers with the Geometry Import Option (Surface Deviation for 3D Solids) value cranked up nicely.

I can post up something for you later...

[Sawyer]

Claudio thanks for your reply. The actual bldg is not this shape I was just pointing to the attributes that the walls needed to have.

 

This is an early schematic of what the floor plan will be. This is real sketchy so don't assume that the building is actually metal is just to show the idea. There will be "glowing rooms" however.

The main building here is about 11,000 square feet. The guest house is about 2,000 sq ft.

 

ALSO - is there a scale function in revit? The designer wants the plan to remain the same but to reduce it 10%. He thinks it should be easy I said I didn't think revit had an option that would do that but I don't know revit very well. I am assuming that with parametric objects it becomes pointless to "scale" but...

[Claudio Branch]

 

The actual bldg is not this shape I was just pointing to the attributes that the walls needed to have....

 

...I am assuming that with parametric objects it becomes pointless to "scale" but...

 

 

Are these attributes for all walls (interior/exterior)?

 

I cannot comment from a Revit perspective, but if I were modeling something with a parametric modeling program (Pro/E, Solidworks, Inventor), I would use a feature called a "family-table."

 

The family table allows me to make a single model with several iterations. Any model has several parameters defining it's form such as width, length and height. The family table simply takes the parameter list for the base model and allows you to set-up unique instances by changing the parameter values.

 

Really powerful and really easy...

[SandmanNinja]

If it's for 3DS Max, then just chamfer the edges. Maybe a double-chamfer.

[Chad Warner]

Based on the forum he's posting in, I'm assuming he's trying to figure out how to do this in Revit.

[SandmanNinja]

oops

 

sorry

[ChooChoo]

ALSO - is there a scale function in revit? The designer wants the plan to remain the same but to reduce it 10%. He thinks it should be easy I said I didn't think revit had an option that would do that but I don't know revit very well. I am assuming that with parametric objects it becomes pointless to "scale" but...

 

The scale function in Revit is called resize under the edit table. It won't do what the designer wants. Doesn't work that way unfortunately.

 

Your shape will be a challenge to do, but it's possible. You'd have to make your own under create....and probably do a combination of solid forms and void forms to achieve it. Can't really help you too much on that shape, I'm more of a square, rectangle guy.