Arraying roof shades - Custom Families and Parameters in Revit 2016 | Black Spectacles

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In this course, Brian DeYoung from SOM will show you how to work with custom families and parameters in Revit 2016.

This version of this family is going to get arrayed all the way up until somewhere around in here. Now I know already, because I've built the family previously, that the distance between insertion points is two foot six inches. With this highlighted I'm going to click on the array tool and then I'm going to say move to second, and I'm just going to randomly click anywhere and then go two foot six. And that places the second one. Now I don't know how many of these are supposed to fit in this space so I'm just going to randomly choose 16. Okay, so we need a lot more so let's say 20, we still need more. Let's say 24. Okay, maybe that's too much. Let's go 23, so you can see unless you've worked out the math it's a little bit of trial and error to get the number that you need.

But now you can see this last fin is right about where the facade of the building is, and so that's where the other type of roof shade should start, the one that has the fins on it. And so let's go to the 3D view just so you can see what this is starting to look like. And so there are those shades on that part of the building. So now let's go back to canopy two and we're going to place another one of these, except this time it's going to be the one that says, "No fins." I'm intentionally going to place it too far away because then we'll move it and shift it. Except I accidentally clicked on the one that said, "No fins" so let's swap out its type and say fins. And now we can slide this into position.

So how can we locate this? Well, let's see edit group, so the insertion point for this guy is right there. So let's draw just a small little reference plane right there and then we take the insertion point of this guy and use the move command and now I'll move it back to where that reference plane is. And now that should be in the right position, so now I'm going to delete that reference plane because we don't need it anymore. Check the 3D view to make sure that I've got it in the right spot and it might not be completely in the right spot, but I think it's close enough for the purposes of today. It might be just a hair off but that's okay.

And so now we're going to array this guy the rest of the way up until this right here, this facade. And so we'll click on it and say array, move to the second. This is also two foot six feet apart and then it's just a matter of figuring out how many of them we need. So let's try 30, okay we need probably almost double that, so let's try 50. That looks like it's going to get almost right on the money there. And then this last little bit we need ones that don't have the fins again. But let's check the 3D view, okay so somehow I managed to click on the wrong thing and arrayed the wrong thing. So the easiest way to fix this problem is just to delete all of these.

These, as you can see here, they overlap and so you can see when I click on this it overlaps with that one as a group and so I think I've accidentally clicked on this when I was trying to array so that's what happened. Well let's try to do this a little bit more efficiently here, so let's click on this guy and we're going to array that now a second time. So canopy two, array, two foot six, and so now we're going to change that to 50 and now we've done it correctly.

So the last part to finish this whole thing off is pretty simple. We just add one more of the version that has the no fins and we'll add it right here. And then we'll slide it in to position so this insertion point should more or less line up with the insertion point for that, except that's too far. Let's go to the 3D view, take a look. And we'll take that and make one last array two foot six and then we just have to figure out how many we need to go to the end right here. So let's try 10, 11, which probably, 12, that's good enough.

So now let's look at it in 3D and this is our complete roof structure. So it looks pretty close to the reality, but obviously without going out and really studying the building in-depth I don't really know for sure exactly what the dimensions and everything are. But this gives you a pretty good idea of how to build a complicated piece of a building out of many different families. And this is a common strategy that we use to create these types of situations.

So just keep in mind that when you have these complicated structures just break it down into its constituent parts and then piece it all together. Making sure that your insertion points make sense, the way that the tops of the beams have the insertion point at the top, and then the roof shades have the insertion points at the bottom so everything landed on the levels appropriately. Things like that that you just have to think about ahead of time in order to build these special constructions.

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