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CBJConstruction

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Does anyone know if there is a good Tower Crane Family available for Revit.  I have been using Revit for about a year now and would like to really work now with logistics with it.  In Autocad i have a variety of cranes both crawlers built to specs in 3D as well as some tower cranes.  I am looking for a tower crane in revit that i can actually build, I.e cages would have to be built like in the field, jib lingths would have to be put together per type of crane.

 Also is there a funtion with revit that would allow me to manipulate the crane, I.e allow me to swing the crane around.  The program TOM is only set for use with Autocad, having this work in Revit would allo a user to check picks and check for any swing problems

 I would like to be able to control the jibs on a conventional or crawler crane as well, as just putting the crane in the model is not enough especially on a tight site where i may not be able to use a crane to its full potential, but will need to know its limitations. 

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Christophe B. Jones 

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OnsiteEng

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Hi Christophe,

 Where you able to find a tower crane family for Revit? In particular, Liebherr tower cranes? They would be useful for our logistics.

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Connor Burns

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If you have the crane in CAD as a 3D element, you can create a revit family using that. 

No you can not animate Revit objects.  But in the crane family, you could add new sub categories for crane movement arcs that could be turned on/off in various views .... just like a door  swing shoes door swing clearance.

If the crane were a nested family, you could have an instance parameter to control the swing of the crane.  It would be static and have to be set each time.

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CBJConstruction

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I never found any tower cranes, but I found a 3D Cad File of a picture of one, I broke apart the components and made families of the TC Sections, bases, for the jib and counterjib I manipulated the lengths to get ti close, I set all my cranes up with  Liebherr dimensions, I am not perfect, but I am close enough on everything. 

This link shows two of the cranes on my website

http://cbjconstruction.com/index_files/Page453.htm

Ive won a lot of jobs for having all the logistics components in them, TCs, Hoists, Moble Cranes, Concrete equipment, etc.  because I was able to show real equipment sizes, i even won a job once because i put in the righat crane, my competitor listed a crane which would not make the radius, and due to that the client felt the other contractor did not know what they where doing.

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coreed

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check this out. i think he is selling it also.

http://blog.cadway.com.au/2010/07/making-completely-parametric-mobile_12.html

http://blog.cadway.com.au/2010/10/making-completely-parametric-mobile.html

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Long Live Revit

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