Transcript How to make Revit – Not look like Revit Jereme Smith http://about.me/Jeremesmith.

How to make Revit – Not look like Revit
Jereme Smith
http://about.me/Jeremesmith
Who is
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Who am I ?
How do we make Revit not look like Revit?
Modelling VS. Visualizing
“One step at a time”
How do we make Revit not look like Revit:
• Step #1 Learn Conceptual Massing
• Step #2 Understand the benefits of Cross-Platform
• Step #3 Play with Materials
• Step #4 Edit Basic Families
• Step #5 Experiment with tools
• Step #6 Use the Section Box!
• Step #7 Explore Visibility Graphics!
• Step #8 Render, Render, Render?
• Step #9 Streamline your own Visualization Workflow
• Step #10 Follow the Crowd...
Modelling
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Step #1 Learn Conceptual Massing
– Zach Kron | Buildz.blogspot.com
– David Fano | Designreform.net
Modelling
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Step #2 Understand the trade offs of Cross-platform
– Revit to Photoshop | Photoshop to Revit – immediateentourage.com
– Revit to Illustrator | Illustrator to Revit
– Revit to Sketch Up | Sketch Up to Revit – Google Warehouse
– Revit to Rhino | Rhino to Revit
– Revit to 3ds Max | Max to Revit
Revit to illustrator
Illustrator to Revit
Rhino to Revit to Canstruction
Sketch UP to Revit
Photoshop to Revit
Modelling
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Step #3 Play with Materials
– Creating materials
– Autodesk Library | C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Autodesk
Shared\Materials\Textures\3\Mats
– Resources.maxwellrender.com
• Download
• Extract
• Import
• Apply
• Render
Modelling
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Step #4 Edit Basic Families
– Revitcomponents.com
– Archdesignlabs.com
– Revitcity.com
– Seek.Autodesk.com
Doors
– Normal door in curtain wall
Railing Tool
– Nesting components into
Baluster family
– Components along a path
– Archdesignlabs.com
Courtesy: Adam Thomas
Modelling
Step #5 Experiment with tools
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Decals
– Creating Decals
– Decal Uses
• Pictures
• Murals
• IN-place Materialso lostandtaken.com
• Lighting
• Paint tool
Modelling
Step #5 Experiment with tools
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Curtain-Wall Tool
– “In place” windows
– Edit Profile
– Curtain Wall within a Curtain Wall
– Changing Mullion sizes and Materials
– Mullions as framing and Wood Siding
– http://www.shoparc.com/
– Mitchell Park Camera Obscura
Visualizing
Step #5 Experiment with tools
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Using Parts to create Diagrams/
Assemblies
• Dividing parts
• Combining parts
• Hiding portions
• Andy Millburn Blog
• http://www.grevity.blogspot.com/
2012/04/breaking-up-is-hard-todo.html
Visualizing
Step #6 Use the Section Box!
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Exploded Axonometric Perspective
• Setting camera
o Forced perspective
o Dynamic Views
• Create Multiple views
• Combine on a sheet
• Add text-dimensions-detail lines
Visualizing
Step #7 Explore Visibility Graphics!
Visualizing
Step #7 Explore Visibility Graphics!
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Visualization Settings in Revit
• Catalogue of visual styles
and settings
• View templates
• Object styles
• Transfer Project Standards
• Filters
• Phases
Courtesy: Brenton Kloppc
Step #8 Render, Render,
Render?
Visualizing
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Step #8 Render, Render, Render?
Rendering Exposure Settings
• Rendering Basics
• Favorite Setting high 300 dpi
• “Never use Best”
• fine tune custom settings instead
• Tiff retains background info
• Ambient Occlusion Rendering.
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Courtesy: Corina Lawson
Visualizing
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Rendering Exposure Settings
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Visualizing
Step #9 Streamline your own Visualization Workflow
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Revit to Photoshop Process
• Multiple visual style exports
• Overlaying Multiple Views
• Using the shaded visualization style colors for wand selection in PS
Step #10 stalk these people!
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David Light | http://autodesk-revit.blogspot.com/
Jason Grant | http://jasongrant.squarespace.com/
Steve C Shell | http://scshell.com/
Alex Hogrefe | http://www.alexhogrefe.com/
Phil Read | http://www.architecture-tech.com/
Zach Kron | http://buildz.blogspot.com/
David Fano | http://designreform.net/
HOK Bim Solutions | http://www.hokbimsolutions.com/
Jereme Smith | http://about.me/Jeremesmith
Andy Milburn| http://www.grevity.blogspot.com/
Adam Thomas| http://about.me/jadamthomas
Jereme Smith
Questions?
Questions?
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