I am looking forward to the next BILT ANZ Conference in Brisbane on 24 – 26 May 2018, where I will be presenting a session on creating ‘Nurby Forms in Revit’ – ie. creating complex forms with NURBS surfaces (double-curved), which are notoriously difficult in the Revit Conceptual Massing Environment.
In this session I will start by looking at using the Conceptual Massing Environment to create the equivalent traditional Revit 3D forms (Extrusion, Revolve, Sweep, Blend, Swept Blend), and examining the subtleties of different methods. This will inform the next stage of creating sinuous forms in Revit, and the workarounds you’ll need to overcome some of Revit’s limitations. Then I will demonstrate some techniques for creating parametric NURBS forms that you would not expect Revit to be able to handle. Finally I will look at how to make these forms look better, as Revit is not good at displaying NURBS. All this will be done without using any API, Dynamo or Add-ins of any…