Digital Tutors - Building a Complex Polyhedron in Revit

Duration 1h 19m

Difficulty Level Advanced

Project Files Included

Software used

Revit 2014

What you will learn

In this series of tutorials we will learn to create a complex polyhedron Revit family using adaptive components.

Throughout these lessons we will understand the geometry of the snub dodecahedron. We will learn to create the faces as adaptive component families which the orientation of the face is controlled by the hosting point. We will also learn to create faces as adaptive components which use multiple placement points to determine orientation of the face. Finally we will learn to manipulate rotation angle of a point and use those adaptive component families hosted by points to construct the snub dodecahedron.

Guest Tutor

Kelvin Tam

1. Introduction and project overview 01:05

2. Geometry and parameters 07:12

3. Single placement point face families 12:24

4. Single placement point multi-face families 13:15

5. Multiple placement point face families 05:39

6. Placing the first layer of triangles 13:36

7. Placing the second layer of pentagons and triangles 14:02

8. Placing the third layer of pentagons and triangles 09:42

9. Finishing snub dodecahedron 02:46