revit organic families

[Anonymous]

Iam learning revit, I am practicing right now with families.

Mostly all of the families are boxes or squares or circles but not organic.

Can I design in revit organic families? How? Is it possible?

[aRcHiTeCt.JM]

…. Hi @Anonymous

…. Of course you can do organic things in REVIT

…. What do you want to make/design?

….. you can create families with the CONCEPTUAL MASS

….. almost any shape you can imagine

…. Or you can create families with forms and voids, etc…

[Anonymous]

yeah yeah but how??

[GHASEM_ARIYANI]

Hello @Anonymous

Revit is very powerful, But I suggest you use DYNAMO for organic designs.

I put some Revit tutorials on the link below

Revit tutorials

[aRcHiTeCt.JM · Accepted solution]

 .... @Anonymous

…. Let me show / teach you one quickly

…. Let’s make an APPLE

… open a new family

… you can use metric generic model (i'm using it)

…. Save it as : APPLE  .... or whatever you want it

… go to front elevation

… draw a reference plan (more or less .10 cms)

… and click in revolve

 

….. click in spline

…. Draw this shape between the ref. planes

… and after that click in axis line and draw it from point to point (blue line in picture)

(.... and another straight line to close the gap behind the axis line)

 

….. click finish edit mode

…. Go to 3dview

…. There you go, you have your own organic apple

…. Just apply a texture (anyone- I just used green color )

*** … and with the swept blend you can create the little piece on top

… you can play with this, rotate, copy-paste more and change colors, etc…

[aRcHiTeCt.JM · Accepted solution]

.... @Anonymous 

…. Attached my apple family .rfa

[Anonymous]

@GHASEM_ARIYANI thanks for your answer, i will try to go through all of those videos. scary. too much. kkkkk 

I am just learning but these are great

[Anonymous]

@aRcHiTeCt.JM thanks this is great. simple but that is what Iam looiking for. do you have more like this? 

[GHASEM_ARIYANI]

There are also very strong tutorials on the blog below

Be sure to read

Andy Milburn

[ToanDN]

Do a search for building freeform in revit on YouTube. Ton of tutorial on using conceptual mass and adaptive components. Good luck, no actually you don't need lucks, you just need patience and practices.

[barthbradley]

What to see something that will blow your mind?  Marcello Sgambelluri's Revit Elephant. 100% Revit-made. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJWigOn_Gt8

Google Marcello Sgambelluri's Revit Cow  and Marcello Sgambelluri's  Revit Human Head  for other mind-blowing examples.   

[syman2000]

Hi there,

I also ponder the same question. I try it and see if I am able to create anything within Revit and result is yes you can build anything. The method used are spline thru points and have lots of patience. See example below.

Mario Bros.Goku

Elsa from FrozenDelorean

[Lehainam1]

I can't export texture of elsa to fit in family revit, u can explain in this, thanks!

[syman2000]

The Elsa I've built is native Revit. So I like to know what issue you are having with.

[Lehainam1]

I export sketchup file to revit but the texture is like a "http://www.mediafire.com/view/ybwon4ycva4ovc5/elsabody_d.bmp/file", and it's not fit in to revit family!

are u have a resolusion to this, thanks!

[syman2000]

You cannot use the sketchup texture map. If you want the model to use as a family, you have to break up the model into layers. Then manually map the texture to layers.

[syman2000]

@Lehainam1  you can download the Elsa I've built from this website

https://market.bimsmith.com/product/BIMsmith-Generics/revit-bim-Elsa-Frozen-46315