How to recreate the famous, Falling Water House by Frank Lloyd Wright

by H.Koekemoer

 

To start off with, the images of the FWH(Falling Water House) were not to scale and were in a JPEG form. On Autocad I traced the plans(level 1,2 &3) from the given JPEG.

From there on I imported the plans to autodesk Revit, onto an Architecture Template.

Then I one again, traced the wall outlines and added doors as well as curtain windows.

 

The only problem I had with the project was with the stairs. The base was connected to the bottom level and then it would not connect to the top floor even though it was set in the properties tab to connect to the top level.

 

Concerning the site, it was a bit difficult to see how the site and the building mashes together.

Pattern Based System - Izaan Ohlsen

Pattern Based System

Follow these simple steps, on how to create a Pattern based curtain wall:

 > New > Family

On the new open page; modify template then create a basic frame panel, define and create panel, add materials (glass, steel, etc.). Load into project, choose project file, 3D view, select surface (where pattern will be placed), go to properties > Rhomboid > choose the created family (done earlier), select saved family, Revit will now apply family created to the selected panel, the previously chosen materials of the family will  now be placed on the selected surface e.g. Aluminium, Wood frames with Glass inside, formed as a grid.

 

See the following links: (Video tutorials)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpRfr3NDwwg&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF4JUcJCRH0&feature=player_detailpage

 

 

VOUWWOW. Designed by Joost van Noort and Maartje Nuy

Hermien Koekemoer

How to draw this unique chair on Autodesk Revit

1.   open Autodesk Revit and select New Family

2.   select Metric Generic Model and Open

3.   on the create tab, under the datum heading select the     reference line (this will be used to create a “box”   in which we are going to draw the chair)

4.   the “invisible box” will have the following      dimensions: 860mm x 610mm x 350mm with a seat height of 470mm.

     Under the project browser, be sure to be on the left      elevation. With the reference lines, draw a simple    box to host the chair design that looks similar to   this:

              610mm

 

 

                          860mm

   470mm

5.   now, click on the create tab and under forms, select the extrusion option.

Be sure to click on the line tool

Now you are ready to start drawing!

6.   If lines cross over each other, be sure to trim them,     using the trim and extend function. Just remember to click on the parts of the line you want to keep

 7.   Now that the basic shape is outlines, click on the   offset icon, and use this function to give your chair a depth.

8.   Set the offset to the required thickness, in this    case I chose the thickness of 20mm

9.   Trim lines and extend the edges, aslo I have in this      stage decided to round off some of the sharper edges.

10.  Now you are ready to click the okay icon and then    specify the depth of the extrusion. I specified mine    at 750mm but this all depends on the type of object    your making.

 

 

REVIT CHAIR FAMILY

By Dané du Toit

 

FAMILY CREATION

§  New, family, generic metric mass

§  Create a cage on ref level by adding ref planes around the cross given. 

§  Modify – annotate, click aligned dimension.

§  Click from and to where you want to measure – MUST click 3 things for EQ to pop-up.

§  Click EQ – equal spacing even if you move or change it.

§  Add overall dimension.

§  Now I want to change the overall dimension, but can’t select the actual dimension text.

§  I figured out that because I made it equal, I have to click on one of the outer reference lines of the cage and then I can adjust the dimension of that by clicking on the text – This dimension has to be half of what the total one should be.

§  Should I draw the frame/support structure first and then the seating or the other way around?

§  I don’t know which elevation to draw on.

§  How do you sweep or blend?  It doesn’t allow you to just create a shape, like a circle and if you do, what then?

 

§  I am going to try and start with the seating.

 

SEATING

·         Left elevation.

·         Firstly, I drew a horizontal reference plane at the height that top cushion of the chair will be and rename that.

·         Then, I drew a vertical reference plane where the edge of the back support will be.

·         Extrusion, circle – create 50mm radius circle over intersection of reference lines I just created.

·         Back elevation – draw circle to the left so that it snaps to the reference line, lock it to the centre line.

·         How do I lock a circle to the reference plane?

 

·         Create reference plane a little bit down from the intersection of the previous two and 30mm to the left.

·         Annotate – angular dimension – add dimension so that I can just change that when I move the cushions. – space cushions about 20mm from each other in height.

·         Copy the circle so that the middle point is over the new intersection.

·         Apparently it only copies in vertical or horizontal axis, so I copied it down and then moved it to the left.

·         I am going to repeat this until I have 6 cushions/cylinders.

 

 

·         This is now the back cushioning of the chair.

·         I now have to create the seating part – where you will actually sit on.

·         Draw a reference plane 60mm underneath the previous one and 110mm left of it.

·         Copy the circle to this point.

·         Repeat this with 120mm intervals for 4 times.

 

 

 

SUPPORT FRAME

·         I now have to create the support frame, but I have no idea how to do this.

·         I know I should use sweep, but I can’t seem to get it to work.

 

·         So I am going to try and use an extrusion instead.

·         Left elevation – draw reference plane underneath last cushion.

·         Put an overall dimension between Ref level 0 and the one underneath the last cushion.

·         Set this dimension to 200mm.

 

·         Set plane, underneath cushion.

·         Extrusion, spline.

·         Draw the form of the frame on the left elevation, making sure to close it at the ends; otherwise it will bring up an error message.

·         Click the Ö when done.

 

·         Go to the back elevation.  Ok, so my back and front elevations are turned around… but it will just have to stay that way because rotating it clearly doesn’t work.

·         I can try to mirror it… Select everything – except level 0 and reference planes that were supplied and mirror across middle line.  It worked!!

·         Now I just need to delete the previous object and keep the correct one.

·         So when choosing what is your left and right side, you should look at the object from the front view.

 

 

·         I am now going to move and dimension the footing so that it is thin and offset a little bit into the middle of the chair.

·         Back elevation.

·         Create a reference plane 50mm to the left of the middle reference plane.

·         Select extrusion, drag it from the right to that line and lock it to it.

·         Now create another reference plane 20mm to the left from that.  This determines the width of the frame.

·         Drag the extrusion to the line and lock it.

 

·         Create an extrusion line 50mm to the right from the left edge of the structure.

·         Copy that line 20mm to the right.

·         Copy the extrusion to these reference lines to create the other frame for the support structure underneath the chair.

 

·         Now I want to draw the support structure for the seating and back support.

·         Extrusion, draw the form of the structure.

·         Back elevation.

·         Since the reference planes for the width of the support structure is already there, I can just drag the extrusion to fit within the lines, it is already placed correctly then as well.

·         Now I can just copy the extrusion to the left side and the support frame will be in place.

 

 

·         I still need to create the bolts at the end of each cushion.

·         I can’t see the middle point of the circle – the cushion – I wonder if you need to adjust a setting to be able to see it.

·         Since I don’t know and can’t find that setting, I am going to draw in reference lines to determine the centre point of each circle.

·         Right elevation.  Draw a vertical and horizontal reference line so that the centre point of it forms the centre point of the circle.

·         I am going to do this for all the circles.

·         Now I am going to draw a 10mm radius circle extrusion on the top cushion.

 

·         Back elevation.  Create reference line 5mm from right edge of structure.

·         Do the same on the left side of the structure.

·         Drag the bolt – circle extrusion a just made – so that it sits on the edge of the structure and between the reference line.  Lock it to the reference lines.  It is thus sticks out 5mm.

·         Drag out the reference line that determines the width of the bolt, so that it is 10mm.

·         Draw all the bolts for all the cushions on the right elevation.

·         Since I can’t copy, because it is locked to a reference line, I drew a reference line down the middle of the structure and used this to mirror the bolts from the one to the other side.

·         I just need to drag each one to the reference lines and lock it to it.

·         I now have bolts on either side of each of the cushions.

So this is my chair

The picture I chose: 

 

And my chair: