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Architectural Technologist – Interesting brick corbled detail

November 7, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

: Image by Scays via Flickr

I recently did a survey of an old pub, and saw this detail, although its a classic corbled detail, the brickwork under the old roof truss, is not really doing anything, it’s there for show, the beam if you look carefully, sits on the main exterior wall, which is actually new brickwork, if fact the complete barn is new, made to look old, more photos of the pub on my flickr account

Architectural Technologist Download – pitched roof bits

September 25, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

: Image by Scays via Flickr

I often have to go searching for a particular tile style and I have found a few that more or less cover every one I have had to cover in a section, so I have put them together in a single Vectorworks files for you to use,. They are all 2D of course, but work quite well, I think most came from a dwg file way in the past, but I think they are ok.

Do you have some 2D or 3D details to share, please drop me am Email with them on, I will give full credits if you want, for the details and your country, quite important the last bit to see just how different countries detail .

Pitched roof bits library

Architectural Technologist – Two different roof types in one roof

September 9, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

: Image by Scays via Flickr

Its always the same, a simple survey and you get this, two different roof types in one roof, OK so I admit, its an old barn about C 1750, and its already been hacked about in the past, but I saw it and though, just how interesting it is. First there are two slightly different roof constructions, and second see how the purlin span has been reduced but the use of splayed braces, a trick you often see on older roofs. Look carefully at the timber capping to the top of the wall, the photo just about shows the added shoe detail, that’s been rounded and shaped, a nice feature. So why are there two different roof types, well the answer is simple, no builders yard in those days, the carpenter took what he needed from the local forest, and made it fit, so no two roofs were ever the same. Or he simply made good use of an existing timber truss he had from another roof, no waste here. Oh and all dry fitted with pegs and solid mortise and Tenon joints.

The CPD here is simple, research roof types and learning about mortise and tenon timber joints, and peg joints, not what you might expect, offset holes in the tenon, to the mortice, strong pegs to pull the joint together. Load spread within a roof truss is another area, purlin spans from trada, and can we still use the extra brace to reduce the spans.

Creating Ceiling in Revit Model

August 26, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

If you’ve noticed, in Revit Views we have several views groups. Until now, the floor plans are the most views we use. But under floor plans there is another plan view group: ceiling plans. We use this view to create ceilings, and to place ceiling hosted objects.

You are already familiar with ceiling plans aren’t you? Imagine we are actually inside a room. When you see below, you will see the floor plan. And if you see above you, you will see the ceiling plan. There are some objects you can’t see in ceiling plans. And so the other way: some ceiling hosted objects can’t be seen on your floor plan.

Now open your 2nd floor ceiling plan.

You will see our roof fascia appear in this view. It was placed above 2nd floor, so we can see it. But we don’t need roof fascia appear in ceiling plan. Select the roof fascia. Now hide it by click hide>elements from your contextual ribbon.

Hiding this roof fascia will hide it not only for viewing. But will also disappear when you plot it. Now activate ceiling tool

Move your pointer to your ceiling plan. You should see now Revit is trying to find rooms and highlight it. Move your pointer where you want your ceiling to be placed. Click your mouse to place it.

Place ceiling to all rooms in 2nd floor. After you finish, make a section to review our ceiling.

Now let’s move to 1st floor ceiling plan. 1st floor requires more work. We have a void and a stair we are going to define ceiling in this area by sketching it. First, place ceiling in every room in this plan, except for patterned area below.

After you finish, activate place ceiling. Find sketch ceiling on your ribbon.

Sketching in creating ceiling is just the same with creating floor. Sketch it as closed polygon, and click finish. That’s it Create ceiling sketch for this ceiling below.

And after you finish with that railing, continue finishing 1st floor ceiling by creating this ceiling below.

Next, we will discuss about creating ceiling edges, to close the gap between 2nd floor slab and 1st floor ceiling.

Source: CAD Notes – Creating Ceiling in Revit Model
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Architectural Technologist – Green inverted roof

August 19, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

This video of a green living roof, is not ground breaking technology, I have been advising and installing green inverted roof for almost 30 years, whats new is the way the living mater or soil has been used together with grass indigenous to the area have been put together for this very large rood 2 Ha I like this project and we should not ignore this technology, just because its been around for so long, The exact buildup was not mentioned but I hope it has decent insulation (Extruded Polystyrene, and not Expanded ot PU) I did a photo video interview at the building show in Londen some time back and was impressed with the type and quantity of plants now available to designers, that can adapt to the inverted roof and thrive.

Creating Roof Edges Profile

August 6, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

In the previous tutorial, we learn about creating roof. We created a sloped roof, and a roof slab below it. We are going to use the roof slab as a gutter. So in this tutorial, we will close it edges using roof fascia. We will learn how to create two profile family, and use them to define our fascia.

Create a new family. You can create it by accessing Revit menu> New> Family. When Revit ask you for a template, select Metric Profile-Hosted.rft.

You will see an empty drawing area, with crossed dashed lines in the middle. This defines your insertion point, where your roof edge will be recognize by this family.

Activate lines from create tab in your ribbon. Draw this profile below.

After you finish, save this profile. Give a relevant name such as "’roof slab edge profile’.

Now, open your training file. Load the profile we created before. You can load it by accessing Revit Menu> Open > Family.

We’ve just load the profile, but haven’t define where it should be used. Now we need to tell Revit to use it in a fascia family. Activate roof > fascia.

Revit will open contextual tab in your ribbon. Select element properties> type properties.

Click duplicate to create a new type. Give it name ‘Roof Slab Edge’. Now in the parameter, construction section, change the existing profile to your profile.

Close this dialog box. Now, make sure the active fascia type is Roof Slab Edge. Change it if necessary.

We have through the hard part, now we will do the fun part: placing the fascia. Placing fascia is very easy, just click on the roof edges.

Click on every edge shown below. It’s fun, right?

Now, activate modify tools (do you realize you can activate it by pressing [esc] several times – depends on which tool is active). Select the sloped roof, then click hide element from view control bar. It’s the one with sun glasses icon.