the Hayne Way: Pop it in…

11 Feb the Hayne Way: Pop it in…

Posted at 20:53h in Software Spotlight, The Hayne Way, The Office, Tips and Tricks by Holli Jackowski

Boss man: “Can you just pop this in the model?”

the Girls: “Ummm… sure… Just give us a little bit of time…” (Thinking to themselves that we need to review the concept of Revit Families again…)

[Hmmm… there are only overall dimensions and general materials called out… Ok, let’s break it down and see what we can do.]

Start by modeling the individual prism pendant.

Let’s add some options.
We want to be able to control the overall height and the bottom height of the prism to get some variations in each glass pendant like the photo. Also, don’t forget to add material options.

Insert your new prism pendant into a face-based family. This will help when we start to build the actual chandelier. Could we have started here? Maybe, but we have found that the more you can separate out the family parameters the easier the final family is to assemble.

Insert your face-based prism into a new lighting family. Yay! We are almost at the finish line.
Hayne Tip: Use a hidden concave surface to place your pendants on to help with the “clustering”.

The prisms can be moved along the concave surface to create the chandelier. This makes it easier to adjust your prisms to get as close to the light fixture image as possible.