Creating a form around a curve

[Anonymous]

Hi people!

So long story short, I'm doing a project for college and am trying to model a pretty basic bridge, I've never used Revit before so have been following some YouTube tutorials. I have managed to create the sections, and can create a form along a straight line with a camber across the bridge, although if you look at the reference images, i need to curve the bridge around, and if i select the sections and create form I get an error for self-intersecting geometry.

How the hell do I go about this?!?!?

Thanks in advance,

Will.

[Corsten.Au]

Hi..

Your approach is good if the software is surface modelling software ( like 3ds max, even Autocad )

In Revit you can use that method with “ Mass Modeling)

this is the list you from easy to difficult way to model that bridge

1: Ramp( draw profilein plan, and give slope )

2. Use Floor, and then modifying elements and slope arrows you can change the angles, height

3. In place model ( splitting the entire bridge in parts and model one by one )

this will be difficult to modify, no one would recommend this unless design is finalised

few more ways but that’s not recommended cause it will involve manual calculations which is automatically getting done using Ramp and floor so no point reinventing the wheel... in this case slope..

cheers

[Corsten.Au]

Check out this from previous thread for reference..

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/curved-ramps/td-p/3632382

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/curved-ramps/td-p/3632382

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

There are many ways to create this.  One is below:

- Create a profile of the section of the ramp using Profile family template and load in project

- Create an in-place model, use Swept Blends for sloped sections, use either Sweeps or Swept Blends for flat sections (I prefer Swept Blends because they can be changed from Flat to Sloped more easily)

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/7463df08-7d5c-440d-b817-ed1ac2368776

 

[Anonymous]

Sorry it took me so long to reply, But your solution was perfect, I've done a lot of research into your suggestion and am pretty happy with it now!