Advanced Modeling in Revit Architecture with Paul F. Aubin

Advanced Modeling in Revit Architecture elaborates on the basics of core elements in Revit, such as walls, floors, roofs, and curtain walls, and digs into specialized features such as in-place families, adaptive components, and the massing environment. Author Paul F. Aubin guides designers into thinking both in and out of the box, through discovering and applying industry standard best practices, employing creative and sometimes unconventional techniques and procedures, and finding ways to make models serve multiple concurrent project goals.

Topics include:

• Understanding some different approaches to modeling


• Building an in-place mass


• Creating and manipulating massing forms


• Using X-Ray and Dissolve


• Performing an energy analysis


• Applying geometry to surfaces


• Configuring divided surfaces


• Nesting massing families


• Stitching borders with adaptive components


• Working with lofting techniques


• Adding dormers and soffits


• Choosing a wall modeling strategy


• Working with curtain walls


• Building custom stairs


• Creating a custom material