Calatrava's Turning Torso

[Cadkiller]

Group;

I've attempted to model his building with Revit and have come up against a problem when I get to the diagonal braces. I'm having trouble with getting a work plane established for these members. See the attached picture.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

From;
Ed Borg
Precision Drafting LLC null

[sbrown]

check augi, there is a thread on this same building and someone had it all modelled, diag braces too.

[Cadkiller]

Scott;

I have and I also figured out how to create them on my own. Not such an easy task. I really wish that reference lines could be used in the actual model to establish reference planes. Where the reference lines can snap to other lines in different planes like Autocad does. Also if I could create work planes by object, 3 point or view and be able to rotate the view to match the work plane. This is very fustrating and I never felt like this when using the UCS in Autocad.

From;
Ed Borg

[sbrown]

Why not make the diagnol brace a separate structural family then you could easily control its parameters.

[Cadkiller]

I created a structural component and created it in place. Should I have done it a different way? The parameters are limited unless I should be adding parameters to the in place member.

From;
Ed Borg

[sbrown]

In place families aren't good for repeating elements, I would build it in the family editor.

[arcabhijeet]

Hi Friends,

I recently modeled the Turning Torso as a mass family (yes family rather than project) using reference lines to guide the floor geometry and some parameters to control their orientation and level. The complete documentation can be seen at 
http://arcabhijeet.blogspot.com/2011...ing-model.html

Hope this helps.

Best,
Abhijeet

[Alfredo_Medina]

Great model. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[surya18]

sir,

    which software will be useful for analysing the building?

    and if you have a tutorial for modelling and analysing, please upload it sir