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I am struggling to get Revit to create a not very complicated form. It is essentially a cube with chamfers cut of it. It is a bathroom pod for a house I am trying to document, so I need the form to have walls.  The original shape was done in Rhino.I've imported it as a .SAT file into a mass. You can attach walls to its faces, although most of the walls won't join at intersections.  I am resigned to using the pen tool to get around this.

But I would like to be able to create this shape as a mass in Revit so I can adjust it if I need to, rather than (getting some-one else) to change it in Rhino.I tried creating a solid cube, with voids to cut the shape. But Revit doesn't allow voids to intersect so that didn't work. Next I tried creating solid extrusions off the imported .SAT faces (effectively in-place walls). But the edges don't join. Using the join geometry tool joined some in plan, but not all of them. Helpfully Revit deleted solids it couldn't join! (thank god for undo). It appears the limitations for wall joins also applies to generic solids.

You would think you would be able to create a generic shape in Revit, even if the only way was to trace an imported object. But it seems the only way to create objects in revit is through the limited extrusion, blend, sweep, revolve methods.

My question, my plea, is does anyone know how REVIT CAN CREATE SUCH A SHAPE.

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A shape like that I would stick with Rhino. Revit has modeling capabilities, yes, but not extensive. It would be possible, but I think much too time consuming.

And just my opinion, but REAL architecture is relative. I see a geometric shape. I think architecture should be about function first, then form. If that is what you feel is real architecture to you and it works for you, then that is good for you. But that would not fit me and my idea of architecture. 

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