PRODUCT FOCUS
Revit Architecture 2014 degree intervals except profiles 3 and 4, where they are located 2.5 degrees off of profile 2. Copy profile 1 and paste it into the new adaptive family. Since the profiles were built in the “left” elevation view, then all the profiles will need to be separately pasted to the plan view and “rotated” into place. Copy profile 2 and paste it into the Revit family. Repeat this process until all the profiles are created. Go back to the plan view and copy and mirror all six profiles.
Figure 13: The plan view of profiles
• Select the 13 splines shown in Figure 13 and click “create form.” The final model should look similar to Figure 11.
THE REVIT COW You will be shown how to model The Revit Cow, shown in Figure 14. This example illustrates how I used Revit and other software to create the Revit Cow. However, this does not mean that you have to choose the software I was using. What is important is that you follow the fundamental steps that are involved no matter what software you are using.
Figure 14: The Revit Cow Figure 12: The profiles
• Create the rest of the profiles 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 in the same view using the previous method. • Create reference lines in a radial pattern and place the profiles with the dimensions shown. The profiles will be located at 5 12
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Instead of creating the cow model from scratch, which was how I modeled the Revit Cow originally, just take pictures of a cow out on the farm and load it into 123 D Catch, which is free from Autodesk and make your own cow model using the .obj extension.
March 2014