digitalcarbon Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 was really expecting a failure hollowing out this poly tank nice job can Revit do this type of modeling? Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 i can even pick up the centers of the pads! wow wow Quote Link to comment
GWS Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 it's not what I would call a complex shape! ('Pads' or not) Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Nice model, though I would tend to agree with Guy that its not particularly complex. (And I was reminded how bad "draw edges" looks in open GL when I opened your file however.....) Kevin Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 i guess it was the hollowing out of the tank. i expected a fail or at lease a long time to compute but it did it in a few seconds Quote Link to comment
GWS Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 ... i expected a fail or at lease a long time to compute ... That is a telling thought about how VW works, and I know that feeling of low expectation! Quote Link to comment
Bruce Kieffer Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 digitalmechanics, I can't comment on Revit's abilities, and I know that was your question. But your model is interesting. Can you explain why you chose to make the tank by using the extrude along path command? And then why you used the Shell Solid tool to hollow out the tank? I would have never thought of those tools. Not to say that my approach is better than yours, I don't know, but I would have swept a polyline profile to create the tank, and then done the rest of the modeling as you did. As I was deconstructing your model, I noticed that there is no history mode for the Shell Solid tool. That's a problem for me. I avoid non-history mode tools if I can. Unfortunately the chamfer and fillet edge tools are ones I have to use often that don't have history mode. That always makes for extra work if the model needs to be altered. Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted January 11, 2013 Author Share Posted January 11, 2013 not sure, i use to use sweep tool all the time but one time someone said EAP is better. not sure why or if true, but i have been using EAP for everything i can and it is no longer a scary tool for me. Quote Link to comment
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