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Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:20:12 PM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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Anybody know how?

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Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:55:06 AM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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You will need to use the swept blend tool that is only available in Revit 2009. This release comes out in the second week of april this year.

Check out the helix made with Revit 2009:  http://autodesk-revit.blogspot.com/


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Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:05:07 AM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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Thanks, I appreciate any help. Can't waite for 2009 to be realesed. Looks like they finally listened to the masses. I'm most excited about the adoption of Max's rendering engine.

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Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:12:46 AM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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Look at information about 2009 ... http://autodesk-revit.blogspot.com/

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Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:09:48 AM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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I ended up modeling it in AutoCAD & then imported it as a family into revit, just sucks though because the materials get all mest up & it doesnt render as nicely.

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Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:37:21 AM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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Here's a screen shot of how it came out if anyone is interested.

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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 7:14:35 AM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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The materials should be just fine.  If you created the forms in autocad and seperated them by layer, you can assign the materails accordingly.  I have done that several times with 3d forms that I could not create in REVIT.

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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:31:34 AM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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Is there a special trick to it? because I seem to loose the material & texture on the objects every time & revit won't let me assign materials to it.

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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:20:53 PM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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shape you are trying to make can be made in revit 2008, use the stairs tool. spiral stairs

the other thing is what family did you import it into, try the mass family then attach wall to it might give you the result better.


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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:28:13 PM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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When I did this, I created a family that I imported the cad drawing into.  Each 3d object that I wanted to assign materials to is on it's own layer.  When the family is then inserted, the layer name shows up in the project's materials file which is where you set it.  Not in the family.

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Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:09:04 PM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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I must be doing something wrong, because I still can't get it to work.

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Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:03:10 AM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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I know it's a rude word, but do you have AutoCAD i.e. Revit Suite 2008.

As mentioned you can do this in Revit with some work and very easliy in Revit 2009 :o) but for now you can always model your helix in AutoCAD with it's helix command and sweep a shape around it, then import it back into Revit... just an idea.

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Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:23:18 PM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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badda bing badda boom revit 2008. 

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Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:14:42 PM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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Sweet!

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Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:17:37 PM | how do you Mass a Helix - Kinda Like a DNA Strand

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Spiral ramps as well...

http://www.revitup.co.za/main/page_tips__tricks_spiral_ramp.html

it's all about breaking the component down.


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