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It should be pretty easy to do it with conceptual mass.
although i haven't done one like this, you should be able to set up the points as an arch and create form by picking the points
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i see. i wish i knew that. im still a newbie with revit and i can only use basic forms right now.
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revit massing used to be a simple program for stuff
like making curvy roofs and things- but since they
turned it into something as complex as 3Ds Max for
the design artist- it lost me.. but it's all good.. and
that's the one and only thing that works a little different
for 2011 with the native UI.. but that reminds me that
i intend to learn it..
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@PCHAN: is there a way to neatly place points in the surface of an arch's slope? what i intend to do is add edges then move the point of these edges until they form the curving profile. if i do so, am i doing it the hard way?
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Hi there, -- I think that I can offer some suggestions on how to model this with the basic tools, if that is more appealing to you.
I see no parabola in this model, only a hemisphere cut back at an angle!
You can model this in two moves -- One, being an arched sweep, the path running up the ride of your roof from back to front, and the profile being a hemisphere, and the 2nd object being a void to cut back the lip for the nice parabolic-looking overhang it has there. I'll upload a pic in a bit after I leave work to illustrate what I mean.
Though... conceptual masses can look pretty sharp... I think this geometry is really quite simple.
Okay, this was ~10 minutes, the orange shell is one sweep, there's another sweep with a path along the edge (gray) to soften it and give a curled-over look, and the void is invisible, but extends from the upper tip to the underside of the roof where it behins sloping downward. If that's somewhat clear.
Edited on: Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:42:15 PM
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