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I am a student with access to AutoCAD, Revit and 3DS Max (2015). I am working with conceptual masses and am looking for suggestions on how best to segment a larger conceptual mass into smaller regular peices. Previously I have done this in 3D AutoCAD, taking the mass and segmenting it with planes set at regular intervals. This process does not appear to be available in Revit where ideally I'd like keep my project to utilize Revit's other documentation tools.Does anyone have any suggestions as to how they would best attack this problem? I will be actively participating in replies. Thanks,

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I would think just editing multiple copies of the initial mass would be your process.

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Hmm. Well that might work for smaller masses but unforuately for larger masses to get to the smaller sized segments I need we might be looking at +50 pieces which means it is both time consuming and hard to do accurately (unless I'm missing something). 

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I have to ask this....

Conceptual mass is ok for conceptual but unless there are non-traditional surfaces, native elements are best used wherever you can.   So why are you breaking down your mass into smaller masses?

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Hehe. Very perceptive. There is a very good answer to that very good question. I am working on a project for 3D printing and we are studying the ability to take larger complex surfaces and break them down into their constituent parts. (So instead of cast-in-place concrete we would print the concrete say.) It's all very conceptual at this point but Revit is so powerful as a digital hub for building we are trying to keep as much of the project in Revit as possible.

(sorry for the font issues.)

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