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amszpara

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I am trying to create a family element, a globe, more precisely the continents. I undersatnd rthe easiest way to go about it is createing a sphere and then substarcting out of it mass, but how can i eather overlay an image to see what needs to substracted or i fthere is another way. have anyone tried this before. I am attaching an image of what I would like the globe to end up lookin (exceptn no stripes.

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I'm not sure what the best procedure to try and accomplish this would be.  If I were to try it I might make my sphere to the size i want it to be and place a curved wall directly infront of it to the same size of the sphere and attach a decal of the continent to the wall that I could trace my void over and then cut the sphere with the void.  The problem with this is you would have to place multiple decals showing the different continents.

My other thought was to find one that was made out of googles 3D warehouse and use that as my trace, the problem with that is you dont have the option to scale the already made one up if its not the size you wanted.

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IWOULD JUST USE ONE FROMGOOGLE WAREHOUSE LIKE THIS ONE:

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=acfe30783806ef091cbd563a081ff757&prevstart=60

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itsmyalterego

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This reminds me of a trick I tried awhile ago.  Find a "square" stretched map of a hemisphere.  a quick google search should turn it up.  turn this jpeg into a material pattern.  Apply this material to your globe.

Materials behave strangely on spheres.  maybe it's just revolves.  You might have better luck using sweeps and actually getting a globe, or at least a hemisphere that revit recognizes as one uninterupted surface.   but I am not sure. 

Anyway, here is 1/8th of a globe with a map material applied to it.

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amszpara

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itsmyalterego,

can you explain to me step by step how to do that. I am new to revit and do not know all the tools and such

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amszpara

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I am also tring to use the sketch up model suggested, but i cannot import it revit with image to use as a reference.

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The sketchup model has to be imported as a cad file -- it's independant from putting a jpeg image on it.  Things imported from sketchup aren't editable in revit. 

The step-by-step of how I started making that globe go like this:

Model in place family - revolve - draw axis of revolve in plan - draw profile of revolve (a D shape with the flat side on the axis line of the revolve) - finish the revolve - select the revolve - in properties, give the revolve a material - edit the material - go to the render image - pick a new image to replace the original image - disable tiling - resize the image to fit (for example, 2 x pi x r for the width, to match the globe.)

  those steps add up, I'm sorry

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