Assignment 02 — Families
This week I made 3 examples of parametric families in Revit: a voided cone, a pool table, and a massing study of MVRDV’s tennis stadium, The Couch.
In the example above, I wanted to use the void forms function to look at how two cones (one subtractive and one solid) can nest or intersect. I made the cone by lofting two circles after I tried to sweep a profile around a circle. Revit wouldn’t recognize a sweep as an option, even though I built it the same way that we made a pyramid in class. I assume that that is just because of the geometry. I struggled to get the height parameter to work. I think it has to do with the working plane that I drew the top circle on.
These pool tables are the result of the Lynda tutorial on families, which I took since I missed class the week of the families instruction. The pool tables are slightly different sizes. The tutorial used the furniture template, which I find has more modeling options than the conceptual mass family template. I edited colors in the Visibility/Graphics menu.
I tried several different methods of modeling the basic form of this, but was only successful in lofting the front and back profiles, which are made with the Spline Through Points function.
