Organic shape mass with wood curved beams - beams are tilted

[majo6541]

Hi,

I got a problem with bemas and organic shape mass.

Question is how can i straight beams ? Make them paraller with x and z axis.

Second question, if I making glass facade should i put beams on the both sides of glass? I didn't because if families are right next to each other, there will be 2 beams on the same place. That cause on the beginning  is missing beam(see picture). Is there any other way hot to fix it ? Or just recreate specific families with beams on the both sides of glass.

See pictures with specific family and object.

Thanks for help.

[barthbradley]

Curved beams. 

[ToanDN]

Can you share the timber adaptive family?

[majo6541]

Of course, here is adaptive family.

[barthbradley]

you don't think curved beams would work?  

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

See attached:

- create an adaptive family with only adaptive points and a thru-point spline

- place it on your mass nodes and repeat

- load mass in project and draw timber beam using pick line + tick 3d snaping box and pick the curved splines

[RDAOU]

@ToanDN 

That works but not for all organic shapes and beam sections...See image 1 below ...trying to apply same method to add purlins on top (on a not too complicated organic form) simply fails - and adjusting the width/section of the purlins doesn't really resolves it.

And when it does work and Revit places the purlins after sever trial and errors, the alignment/justification of the rafters and the purlins almost always never match

I do not believe that the use of this feature was intended for such purposes...don't think there is a way around adaptive components

[majo6541]

Thank you so much, Everything works well but of course one solution make another problems. 😄

So, I follow your orders and the problem is after repeat adaptive family on the mass surface some windows are fliped, if I click in properties to flip family but just invert happend (means from bad windows are good and from good windows are bad), and i can't flip just one window, I can flip only whole repeat windows. Maybe is another way how to make adaptive windows. What do you think ?

And one more problem, but that is detail.... If I making beams by pick the line, i can pick just line between U grid, that means One beam is connected form several beams, so concetion between each part of beam are not good.

Everyhting is shown on Pictures.

Thank you.