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Anyone use Revit for Timber Frame design? I need some tips. I'm in a class, we have to design a small/moderate residential structure, and I want to do a timber framed house.
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I would aproach the timber frame using solid extrusions as "in place families" sketched in an elevation or section view. Model / Create / Solid / Extrusion.
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I would just create an external family for your timber stud with parameters for width length and height, not hard to do and will work much better in your model.
exesive use of in place families will slow you down quite a bit...
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I would perhaps use external family created members for the bay purlins or rafters, but I would create each bent assembly as in place families and not mess with joining family beams to create a bent. You can copy or array a completed bent as needed per section.
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I second eldados view that all the families should be done exteranl to the project in the family editor.
The basic rule of thumb for in-place families in Revit is that they occur only once in the project, are unique to the project and will never be copied or used anywhere else ever again.
If you new to the family editor it can be daunting. Rembember though that you do not have to create everything parametric, so just doing the non-parametric form in the family editor then loading into your project will vastly improve performance and ability to control the objects.
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OK, any idea how to "create external families?"
I've been messing around with solid extrusions and have had some luck with getting a mortice to show up. The problem is that for some reason I can't dimension the depth. Length and width of the beam are fine.
The text for the dimensions on the mortice are way too big and one actually blocks the element. I have only been able to create through mortices.
As for showing the connections (mortice on one beam, tenon on the other) it's been nothing short of frustrating. I haven't been able to modify the end of the extrusion without getting error messages.
When I deal specifically with "structural/timber" beams, they won't but up together. I was told this is because they assume there's a column in the middle?
In plan, I have to show them butted up, but the dimensions have to be correct lengthwise for the amount of the beam that, for instance, passes into the ground sill.
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I just started learning revit 8. However, my job is at a custom timberframe builder. What I have found to be the easiest and fastest to create the initial frame has been to sketch and extrude the entire model in AutoCad. Then importing the model into revit. Again, I have just started learning the programs so if there is a better way to do this, let me know. I just thought I'd offer my two cents.
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