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Showing posts with label adaptive components. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adaptive components. Show all posts

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Geodesic Sphere - Bucky Ball Try out



A few years back, a client had asked if there was a way to build a Geodesic Dome in Revit. I tried, and tried... but got nowhere in the limited time I had. The only solution I could recommend was to use a script to generate points that could then be connected by adaptive components.
Then yesterday, when looking for something else (as is wont to happen more often than I care to admit), I found a tutorial by Tom Vollaro that broke down the problem in terms of simple geometry. I not only learnt how to build a geodesic sphere, but finally understood the underlying geometric basis for the form.

Of course, not all of us have the time to build it ourselves - So, I'm sharing :-). (You can download it from my drive here)

Monday, March 25, 2013

Revit Adaptive Component: Practical Archetypes - Curved Glass CurtainWalls

[caption id="attachment_455" align="aligncenter" width="480"]Panelization of the Curved Surface using Adaptive Component Families Panelization of the Curved Surface using Adaptive Component Families[/caption]

Curved panels are particularly gnarly! Curved and Non-rectilinear are more so. This is one of those situations where you don't have a choice but to use Adaptive Components.

In this post I'm going to attempt to show how simple the building of a curved and trapezoidal panel can be. So, bring out the rusty trigonometry toolbox (or googling skills) and let's get started!