It can be done with reference points, splines of three points, surfaces, and a pattern-based family for the tiles. Not necessarily with Dynamo as shown in the picture. To get started, study the attached handout. It's from a class I gave in 2013 for the RTC conference in New Zealand.
I made this couple of years ago.
at that time was more less copy paste each tile
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So all I have to do is make the tiles in adaptive component family and use it as pattern for massing surface like this?
Hi @Anonymous
I came across this interesting blog post which has a step by step technique to design this roof.
Let us know how it goes and if are looking for more information! @Alfredo_Medina is one of the best for adaptive design.
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Hi @Anonymous
Here's a youtube video on Adaptive Conical Roof with Tiles, Spanish roof tile, Clay tile roofing
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@Anonymous
What error is displayed when you hit 'expand'?
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Hi there @Anonymous
Can you share the family or Revit file to test further?
I can send you a private folder to upload.
Let me know, I look forward to your reply.
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Have you tried flexing "Family 7" (and/or the family it's nested in)? Betcha you can't without breaking it.
@Anonymous
Please try with a different browser, sign out and sign in again and try attaching the file again.
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Hi @Anonymous
Thanks for sharing the family.
Were you able to try the recommendations in the above posts?
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Thank you @Anonymous for your post. This error means constraints are not met.
When you place this roof tile, points that you select needs to be according to the adaptive points from family10. You might want to simplify the constraints by removing some of the adaptive points.
@Anonymous: do you know that you can download a family such is this? Perhaps reverse-engineering one of the barrel shaped tile families available on-line would be the easiest way to learn. BTW: I've never heard of them referred to as "Chinese". Usually, "Spanish", because it's the archetypal shape of the terracotta clay roofing tiles used on Spanish missions.
http://www.arcat.com/bim/eagleroo/Roof-Tile.shtml
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