Revit – Parametric Louver System
This video will show how to make a Parametric Louver System for a Curtain Wall Panel. Three families are made to achieve this. First the louver is made using a Generic Model family. Next the louver is loaded into a Line Based family and a parametric array is made based on the panel height and louver spacing. Then the line based family is loaded into a Curtain Wall Panel family and constrained to the left, right, top and bottom.

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Revit – Operable Curtain Panel

This video shows how to make an operable curtain panel family. The curtain panel has a instance parameter so you can set the swing angle different on each panel.

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Revit – Curtain Wall

This video explores ways to create a Curtain Wall with a custom layout or by type. The first way using a custom layout is done by creating grid lines and then hosting mullions on the grid lines. The second way is to define the curtain wall by type. The advantage of a type layout is that you can save the type and apply it to multiple curtain walls. The video also explores inserting a door, changing panel types and changing the curtain wall profile.

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Revit Generic Models (model-in-place)

This video looks at Modeling in Place using Revit Generic Models. It’s not possible to model complex geometry using Revit system familes; i.e. floors, walls and columns. The only way to create complex geometry in a project file is to generic model in place.

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Revit Parametric Column Family

This video walks through the steps of making a parametric column family in Revit. The family will have 3 different family types to select from when loaded into a project file. Additionally the family will have parameters whose values are based on formulas.

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Revit Parametric Floor Slab and Slab Edge
This video first looks at creating a parametric floor slab by constraining its boundary edges to a set of grid lines. As you move the grid lines the floor slab will grow and shrink to fit within. Second the video will look at creating a slab edge profile family that is parametric by defining width and height parameters.

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Topics Covered: Negative, Tag, Radians, Function, Dispatch, Division, Plane Surface

This Grasshopper video will look at Generative Components. My definition of a generative component is the process of creating an external component and referencing it to populate a building component. The building component can be a roof, facade, etc… This video will go through the process of creating a operable triangular shade component.

Topics Covered:
Data Path, Read File, Polyline, Planar Surface, Plane Surface, Divide Domain 2, Isotrim (subsrf), Bounding Box, Surface Box, Box Morph

Pier Luigi Nervi designed and built the Palazzetto Dello Sport (small sports complex) in 1957 for the 1960 Olympics in Rome. I’ve visited this building several times making hand drawn sketches each visit. I thought about making a 3D model but to be honest I was a bit frightened. My fear disappeared once I started using Grasshopper and I realized it would actually be fairly easy to build a parametric model of it. This exercise made me realize how lucky we are to have these tools today and how brilliant some past Architects were without these tools. I also think it’s a great tool to help better understand the principals and ideas behind these structures and forms of the past. I hope you enjoy this tutorial as much as I did making it.

This video tutorial will look at creating a parametric model of the Palazzetto Dello Sport (small sports complex).

Topics Covered:
Circle, Move, Z Vector, Endpoint, 3 Point Arc, Sweep 1, Divide Domain 2, Isotrim (subsrf), Divide Curve, Brep Components (explode), Rotate, Polar Array, Radians, Group (ctrl-g)

This video tutorial looks at the Grasshopper Data Structure

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Data Structure, Tree, Branch, List, List Item