Hello,
Fellow Rhino & GH Experts,
I have a complex roof and I have a beam profiles which i need to send to Revit using Rhino inside Revit. One option is direct shape but I want the actual family of Revit itself aligned to the sweep planes defined by the use. However, Add Structural Beam component does not have a way to define the sweep plane for beams.
Could someone please guide me with this ? I have attached the image for the same. Please let me know
Best
Abhishek Shinde
Can you share the example files ?
Hello,
Muhammad,
Here is a sample example script recreated from the part of the project (Cannot share the office project files).
Trimmed_Surface_Struct_Beams_RIR_Plane.gh (20.3 KB)
I want to provide sweep planes to RIR’s “Add Structural Beam” component to get the correct orientation of the beams which currently, I do not see in Revit GH toolbar. I do not want this to be direct shape. Also, the second image is where I tried to implement it but maybe I am doing something wrong.
I have attached the sample Grasshopper file with internalized data as well and also a Rhino file for recreating it. Also, I want a clean joint in Revit so I can make structural details in Revit like bolt design and also complex intersecting beams( 5 or 6 nodes).
Trimmed_Surface_Struct_Beams.3dm (63.6 KB)
I have used TTtoolbox plugin and I can send it as directshape but I want to change beam sizes later on revit without changing the plane orientation.
Thank you for the patience and would appreciate the best practices to model a high fidelity accurate steel model with varying nodes joints in Revit
Some references for high fidelity steel models
Best
Abhishek Shinde -Computational designer @ TYLin
Hello,
Muhammad,
I appreciate you sharing with me this. Yes, I would like to have the same effect also with the joints split at node intersection please. Could you share your GH workflow please?
Best
Abhishek Shinde
I have just improved the curves. This component is sensitive to planar curves
Hello,
Muhammad,
The script which you shared does not have any planes is it computing from the simplified curve. Is there a way one can define custom planes or RIR computes that internally?
It is still not clear as using your logic the angles are different. Please see the screenshot
I want the Add Structural Beams component to match the orientation of the direct shape.
Appreciate this a lot if you can also share a logic of how to compute the node detail as well
Best
Abhishek
@Abhi_S_at_TYLin You need to rotate the beams using the rotation parameter of the family
If the rotation is different at each node then either you have to split the beams or you have to create a custom family from the series of profiles.
Hello,
Muhammad,
This is exactly how i would like to have this workflow. Do you mind if you could please share a working Grasshopper file? I appreciate this
Best
Abhishek Shinde
Please check this guide for creating custom Families
Thank you Muhammad. I appreciate this a lot. I will share a working solution based on your provided documentation example.
