Design options
Testing different material combinations,
Too cold and sterile…
Too brown…
I am beginning to like some of the material combinations but need to refine the design, as I am happy with the overall layout but I have several facade and shell ideas for the extensions that I want to test simultaneously it is time to introduce design options.
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Design Options:
Under the “Manage” menu, select “Design options”, and then Select “New” under the “Option Set”, rename to suit. Next “Rename” the “Option”, create a “New” “Option” and “Rename” as well.
Next select the geometry that you want to modify to try different options, I isolated the geometry and then select “Add to Set” under the “Manage” tab, ensuring this geometry is copied to all the “sets” you want to test select “OK”.
Under the “Manage” tab set the design option to the one you want to test “Shell”. Next as usual I isolate the geometry, then select the “Massing & Site” tab and then “In-Place Mass” and name to suit. Select the “Straight Line” tool, then the “Face” tool, in the 3D view tapping the “Tab” on your keyboard until you have selected the face you want and then snap to a “Endpoint” and sketch the profile of the “shell”. Again using “Tab” on your keyboard select the chain of lines you just created and then “Create Form->Form”. I then in a top orientation in the 3D view adjust the width to suit and select “Finish Mass”.
Now that I have the mass to play with I delete the previous walls and roof that I am replacing. Again I isolate the mass and then paint the surfaces. Finally I adjust the remaining walls and roof and render.
The appropriately named Design options tool is great…
Until I am satisfied with the overall form I will continue to use several design options.
The image below is showing a new interior layout I am working on with basic Revit furniture to assist in planning, I am also testing the use of louver’s on the facade to reduce solar gain and to provide privacy. The background has been replaced with a image using the alpha channel Photoshop technique described earlier.
Next page: Exporting Revit geometry.
