Revit Mass Revolve

Introduction

Building Mass

In this tutorial we are going to create a building mass with Revolves.

Create Mass Revolve

Create new project

Enter a name for the Mass

Create a project:

• Click the Application Button, under New, click Project.
• Under Template file, make sure the a metric, Architectural Template is selected. The exact options you get may depend on the version of Revit you've installed.
• Under Create New, make sure Project is selected,
• Click OK.

Creating a mass in a Revit project.

• In the Ribbon, open the View tab. In the Create panel, click 3D View to create a new 3D View. Only do this if there is no 3D view.
• Open the 'Massing & Site' tab in the Ribbon.
• In the 'Conceptual Mass' panel, click (In-Place Mass). This will create a custom mass object in which you build the mass itself

Revit may pop-up a message about changing the view settings for massing purposes. Dismiss this message.

• Enter any name you want in the pop up

You will now go into editing mode.

• In your Project Browser go to level 1
• In the Draw panel in the Ribbon, click (Reference Line) and draw a single line with length 20000 (mm)
• If you select the reference line you will find 4 reference planes

To draw a orthogonal line in 3D View use SHIFT when drawing the second point of your line.

Changing the Work Plane

Change the Work Plane to the face as shown in the figure below.

• In the Work Plane pane, click (Set Work Plane)
• Select the vertical plane of the Mass as Work Plane
  
  

• Draw a Arc (start end radius arc) to close the boundary, click and draw first the start point, second the end point and the third point for the radius.

• In the Ribbon, click (Modify) to end the command or press the Escape key.

This is your base or profile. The next step is to extrude a profile from the base/profile. More exotic shapes can be made by using multiple profiles.

• Select your boundary shape
• Click the lower part of the (Create Form) button, then (Solid Form).

• The profile is now extruded into a Mass. You can adjust the amount by which you extrude the profile by moving the X,Y,Z handle up or down. The X,Y,Z handles are green, blue and red respectively.

• Change the height to 5000 mm by clicking the numeric dimension. Type 5000.

• Click (Finish Mass)

Add extrusion and Modify extrusion

Next we'll add extrusion to the mass.

New extrusion 3500 mm

• Select the Mass you've created
• In the Modify Mass tab, click (Edit In-Place)

• Select the upper face of the mass. Use Tab & LMB (left mouse button) to cycle through the elements.

• Click the lower part of the (Create Form) button, then (Solid Form).
• Click the lock icon of the new extrusion. Now you are free to change the shape in any direction.
• Change the height to 3500 mm.

Modify mass: Scale

Scale top extrusion

• Select the upper face of the mass
• Go to the Modify panel and Click Scale

• First select the top corner of the mass

• Second select the opposite corner of the corner

• Third slide your mouse over the edge and click the line at a distance of 4000 mm.

Modify mass: Rotate

• Select the upper face of the mass
• Go to the East Elevation view in the Project Browser

• Go to the Modify panel and Click Rotate

• Now you will see a blue point (center of rotation) appear with a line you can rotate with your mouse

• Drag the center of rotation to the corner with your LMB (left mouse button)

• Click outside of the mass in the same direction of the upper face

• Move your mouse to give a rotation of 10 degrees

Change coordinate system of top face

Now the top face of the mass has been rotated. When you select the top face the X,Y,Z handle will appear.

There are two coordinate systems:

• 1) Local and
• 2) World

With Space Bar you can choose the coordinate system.

Local coordinate system:

World coordinate system:

Add extrusions

Add two new extrusion to the mass.

• Select the side face of the mass and create an extrusion

• Set the extrusion distance to 5000 mm
• Click the lock icon so you can change the extrusion in any direction.

Do the same for extrusion above the last one

Create Hole in Mass

The result of the mass

In the next steps a Void mass will be made with the Work plane viewer.

Creating a Void Form

• In the Work Plane panel in the Ribbon, click (Work Plane Viewer)
• In the Draw panel in the Ribbon, click (Rectangle)
• Draw a rectangle on the face with the Work Plane Viewer:
  
  

• Click Modify or press Esc to finish.

Now we're going to create a Void Form from the profile we've just drawn.

• Select the rectangle you've drawn.
• Click the lower part of the (Create Form) button, then (Void Form).
• Change the 'height' (or 'depth') of the extrusion and make sure it goes into the original Mass.
• This Form can also be modified by selecting faces or edges and moving them.
• Click (Finish Mass)

When you select the Mass, you can apply some quick modifications:

Using the blue arrows, you can move each of the faces. The movement is always perpendicular to the face.