How to approach this elevation

[Anonymous]

I have a residentual house to model and I'm not sure how to do this wall in revit cause it's part stone veneer and part brick veener.

I have all working drawings for this project in Cad and now I need to model it in revit. Also if you know any tutorials with modifying doors and wondows please let me know. I'm gonna be doing a lot of residentual models where the client gives me all their working drawings to use. I'm thinking that revit is the fastest way to model and render this. I will import the floor plan to revit and draw the walls and everything.

Hope someone can steer me to the right direction for how to go about this. I really want to learn 3D modeling for Architecture.

[rosskirby · Accepted solution]

That's a pretty broad request.  The best thing I can tell you is to model it like you would build it.  If you go on Youtube, and do a search for Revit tutorials, you'll find a lot of helpful information.  Also, if your reseller offers training, take them up on it.  That will at least get you headed in the right direction.

As for your specific question reqgarding stone and brick walls, you'll want to use a stacked wall.  Make two basic walls, one each for the stone and masonry as if they were two independent walls.  Then make a stacked wall that uses each of the two basic walls; then all you have to do is set the height for each one in the stacked wall settings and you're good to go.  That may be a bit of an oversimplification, but asking for a straight up tutorial here probably won't get you too far.

Good luck, and when you run into specific problems, first do a search in the forums (forums.autodesk.com, augi.com, or revitforum.org), and if you can't find a solution, feel free to post.

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot for your help, it will help move things a lot faster. I'm going to look for a class on revit in a near by university cause I don't know anyone who is proefficient in revit.

I was gonna learn Autocad Architecture first but there is much more resources on revit from what I've seen. Hopefully it becomes easier after some experience. I will also practice rendering in 3d max later on.

[rosskirby]

I think you're on the right path with Revit.  Just try not to get too frustrated when things don't work the way they used to in CAD.  As a number of people have said, you can't think in CAD and work in Revit.

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Hey I tried editing a generic wall into stacked and then applied the material I wanted which worked pretty well, only problem is I'm not sure how to add the precast concreteband between the walls.

I'm also having trouble with the bay window and the wall as you can see on my rendering. I want to make it look like the image attached but I'm not sure how to solve these problems.

I'm not to worried about the columns and railing style, I'll learn how to edit families once the structure and roof is in order. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm starting to like the program.

[rosskirby]

Looks like you've got it just about the way you want it.  For the stone water table course, you'll need to make a profile (Big R -> New Family -> Profile.rft) in the shape of the stone cross-section and then load it into the project.  Go into your stone base wall type properties (not the stacked wall, just the lower stone basic wall), click the Edit button next to Structure, and change the preview to "Section".  That should activate the Sweeps button, so click on that.  Click Add to add a sweep to the wall, then in the profile column, click the drop down and choose the profile you loaded earlier.  Set the vertical offset to be 0'-0" from the top and the horizontal offset to be -x" (so that it's recessed the correct amount), click OK until you're back in the model, and you should be good.  (Note: may take lots of practice to get the settings just right; be sure to keep checking the preview.)

I'm not really sure what problem you're having with the bay window, but that whole piece will probably end up having to be its own family (wall-hosted, of course).  Just start a new family (same as before, but choose a window template), and model the bay window there via extrusions, sweeps, etc. and load it into your project and place it in the wall.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I'll give that a try. Will post rendering when I'm done.