can Revit do this?

[digitalcarbon]

before i open my mouth, i would like to know if Revit "the industry standard" (Simpson Strong Tie web site) can model this type of stuff.

thanks for any help.

the model is not done

[digitalcarbon]

not happy at all with this comment

[Kizza]

you'll probably get it long before a vectorworks version becomes available..

[digitalcarbon]

Kizza, i do not understand your comment. please clarify

[digitalcarbon]

more detail added. this is getting harder and harder to model.

can vw just model surfaces without giving a thickness? THEN later, when done, i give it a thickness. seems like thickness adds a level of complexity that i do not need right now.

it is 6" thick and am calculating volume but what if they want 4"? i need to model it all again. push pull tool not going to work on curves.

[digitalcarbon]

just to be clear on this post. before i take the people at simpson strong tie to task for their comment about Revit being the "industry standard" i want to know if Revit can model the skatepark. (shown) because this wiil be an architectural project done by and office

[Kevin McAllister]

I think VW could model the shapes in your image. They're actually fairly specific pieces. And yes, model them as NURBS surfaces first and add thickness later (shell). The shell command gives you a shell object that you can change the thickness of later.

Kevin

[Bob Holtzmann]

Sometimes Revit users rely on Rhino for modeling curved shapes, and just doing an import. Vectorworks has more of an edge in modeling tools, such as lofted NURBS curves.

The Simpson website made a funny by calling Revit a "CAD system".

[digitalcarbon]

ok thanks.. the skatepark is already modeled in vw.. but did not do it in NURBS... will try that approach...

[bcd]

Extract Surface

[Kizza]

just to be clear on this post. before i take the people at simpson strong tie to task for their comment about Revit being the "industry standard"

Aaah, sorry DigitalMechanics, I thought your displeasure was aimed at the timing of Simpson's producing the Revit model.

[Kizza]

Sometimes Revit users rely on Rhino for modeling curved shapes, and just doing an import. Vectorworks has more of an edge in modeling tools, such as lofted NURBS curves.

Agreed.