How can you rotate sketch planes in Revit so you can create pipe structures like legs for a chair which are not going
along the typical xyz directions?
In Inventor or Fusion 360 I would create a sketch plane at an angle and thats it.
I noticed that for example all Herman Miller furniture products are rebuild right inside Revit utilizing such rotated planes.
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
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here for example are some screenshots:
you can see the sketch/working plane clearly being at an angle
and it looks sketching in Revit is so cripled that one needs to offset the start and end profiles fromt the sweep path to get the look of the part being sweeped along a true 3d path.
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
Mass element can't be use within the family since you have the option to creat solid forms.
My question for 3d refrence plane, is your family a build-in family or a loadable family?
I am not sure if I follow your family question. What are those two family types you mentioned?
All I need to figure out is how I could create a pipe system like in this screenshot:
As you can see the Path in rhino is not planar and goes into all 3 directions. To build this in Fusion I have no clue how to do.
Break it up into 3 sections for each planar part a sketch plane on their own and how the ends will later line up?
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
Did you create the family from Revit-new-family and you are modeled it and then it is loaded into the project (loadable)
Or
you have an open project then you went to the architect tab--Component--Model in place (build-in)
just wanted to be sure you family is loadable or build in family
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
I am uploading a video that will show you how to do this path in Revit, it should be ready in 5 mins
I hope this will help you, Please watch it till the end since I had an error message while selecting the path what I had to do to workaround it
https://screencast.autodesk.com/Main/Details/342c2342-c037-45ed-9c3c-78a456361657
Just a follow up if this helped?
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
I guess if this feature is in Revit no one will buy Inventor 🙂
You could always log a wishlist for this feature
here is the link
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
Revit is not design to create detailed element. Usually Revit Family should be less complex and simplified to help Revit to handle the entire elements within the project to optimize its speed. More details the heavier revit goes.
Where Inventor is more of a detailed design, where everything needs to be created from scratch, from part by part to an assembly.
A detail chair like the one you propose should be created in inventor unless is simplified
it is wierd that the link is not working, try to google autodesk feedback form and you should get the first result as the link