topic Re: Revit Family for Trees in Revit Architecture Forum

Revit Family for Trees

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:15:20 GMT

Hello,

I am working on a project for school that requires placement of site specific types of trees. We have surveyed the location and we have all the necessary information in regards to the type, height, even age of the trees, but I cannot seem to find the appropriate families of the trees that I need, i.e. pine, elm, etc.

Are there any good resources to find these exact families of trees for free?

Re: Revit Family for Trees

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:56:11 GMT

for free ???

maybe you can try ARCHVISION $$

Re: Revit Family for Trees

barthbradley — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 17:30:07 GMT

Are you specifically interested in Photo-Realistic content for Rendering. If not, the OOTB Revit trees are Parametric (e.g. can be sized). Additionally, they all have modifiable Identity Data. You can pull any of this information into Tags and Schedules. If the OOTB families don't do it for you, you can always model your own families. By the sound of it, you already know the specific dimensions, such as trunk and canopy diameters. Easy enough to model with extrusions and revolves. And you could make all the geometries parametric.

FWIW

Re: Revit Family for Trees

loboarch — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:31:18 GMT

You can edit the type properties of trees to get different sizes. There are alos a number of render appearnaces that ship for trees in Revit.

The list is by no means exhaustive, but there are a good numbers to choose from. So duplicate types and reassign sizes and appearances as necessary. If there is not a tree/bush needed in the library of shipped content, you would need to contact Archivision to buy additional planting assets, or create your own.

Re: Revit Family for Trees

dferreira-blackwell — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:37:15 GMT

Revit city is good for free Revit families only need to make an account.

Re: Revit Family for Trees

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:40:17 GMT

We are using the ones from archigrafix. They have the most common tree types (hundreds). They are for 2d drawings, not renderings.

Re: Revit Family for Trees

Anonymous — Mon, 03 May 2021 10:37:02 GMT

Hi,

I need help on this making "all the geometries parametric".
I am new to Revit. I am trying to make my own parametric tree for my solar radiation simulation, but I am stuck to only being able to adjust the height.
Is there any discussion solved/tutorial where I can learn the step-by-step to make my tree geometries parametric (especially tree canopy height and width)?

Re: Revit Family for Trees

syman2000 — Mon, 03 May 2021 16:05:45 GMT

You can check out Andy with the parametric tree.

https://grevity.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-universal-lollipop-tree.html

Re: Revit Family for Trees

barthbradley — Mon, 03 May 2021 16:46:48 GMT

Revit has a pretty good selection of parametric Trees out-of-the-box. Won't those work?

....firewood too. 😉

Re: Revit Family for Trees

Anonymous — Mon, 03 May 2021 19:46:46 GMT

Unfortunately, I could only adjust the height but not the tree canopy diameter.

Re: Revit Family for Trees

Anonymous — Mon, 03 May 2021 19:50:42 GMT

Thanks for this!

Re: Revit Family for Trees

barthbradley — Mon, 03 May 2021 20:07:06 GMT

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Re: Revit Family for Trees

Anonymous — Mon, 03 May 2021 20:11:38 GMT

Thanks for this!