Revit Tutorial & Dynamo Tutorial: Beams That Follow Complex Roofs

[@ChrisPartin]

I've been struggling to find a way to model framing on a curved slope. This video is a great help. I'm working with a similar situation, but I need to use curved beams that are also sloping - much like the ends of the roof in this model. This has helped me with the intermediate framing members, now off to figure out the edge beams. Again, thank you!

[@TheRevitKid]

So glad my video helped! Cheers!

[@checo5098]

could you solve the automatic rotation that gives to curved sloped beams?

[@prateek7478]

@@checo5098 same situation. The beam got attached from the center but we need that the beam face also be parallel to the bottom roof or slab selected face.

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Nice little tutorial! Hopefully autodesk adds more category by face flexibility in future so we can use the right categories in the right scenarios

[@budoorun4]

thank you soooo much for the dynamo series!

[@keithfrain6007]

Good work and well presented.

[@TheRevitKid]

Thanks Keith!

[@andreahollais9722]

@TheRevitKid this is very nice! Now, can we go beyond and make those beams hosted to the mass, so when we change the mass, the beams are updated automatically?

[@muhammadbayubudiman8218]

Hey it's a great video, but i've got some problem bout warning on beam by curve parameter, could you help me with that..

[@ilksenizleaboneol4456]

This is TheRevitKid.

[@ConceptsTC]

Great tutorial!!! Thanks for posting! I am trying to build a similar graph however, I would like to keep the beam sizes in my model. Any idea how we could proceed?

[@TheRevitKid]

Glad you enjoyed! Can you clarify what you mean by keep the beam sizes in your model?

[@mohammadalsafarti3735]

What if I want the surface to follow the beams and I already have the beams I just want the face to follow them .. what should I do?

[@MohamedAli-ez1cx]

Hi Jeff! Thanks for the video! The select face node doesn't work with me and gives me an error (Warning: One or more geometries have failed to convert due to this error: trim_with_edge_loops requires all curves to touch surface One or more geometries have failed to convert due to this error: trim_with_edge_loops requires all curves to touch surface) Do you know how I can fix that?

[@TheRevitKid]

That could be a million different things... Without seeing your surface/face or your project it's hard to help. I would say post the issue on the Dynamo Forum... or shoot me an email.

[@MohamedAli-ez1cx]

@@TheRevitKid Thank you for the response ! I just figured it out today. It turned out I was hiding the in-place surface after I created the roof by face, and dynamo wasn't picking it up. So I unhid the face and selected it again.

[@1433kinglion]

I've suppurate folded roof how can I choose all them together

[@TheRevitKid]

You'll need a few extra Dynamo nodes but it can be done!

[@utamirachmadila5091]

Thank you

[@TheRevitKid]

You're welcome!!

[@ranjithrajt.d4010]

Im only able to see the blue lines along the surface , no final output by using this script

[@josej.1810]

This is awesome!

[@marcusliriano9213]

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[@ilksenizleaboneol4456]

More Revit, more Dynamo, more Python.

[@PaidPal]

I think calling it "super simple" is a little bit of a stretch for the beginners, but great tutorial nonethelss

[@TheRevitKid]

Haha, "relatively super simple?" ... Sorry! Didn't want to patronize anyone! ;)

[@alibilgin4014]

Can we make just this form without using dynamo??

[@TheRevitKid]

ALi Bilgin - hey! The roof form itself was made using the massing tools. Dynamo is simply modeling actual structural beam families that follow the form. Cheers!

[@alibilgin4014]

@@TheRevitKid okey thank you. :)

[@kaansinansartas9211]

ALi Bilgin select model elements ile tüm çizgileri seçiyorum ama sadece ilk çizgiye kirişi atıyor bunun sebebi sizce nedir ?

[@alibilgin4014]

kaan sinan sarıtaş Bunun cevabını verebilmem çok zor. Dynamo içerisinde bir çok özellik/tools var. Videoda gördüklerinizi sırasıyla yapın.Bunu harfiyen yerine getirebiliyor olmanızdan emin olmanız gerekiyor.

[@kaansinansartas9211]

ALi Bilgin tekrar deneyeceğim.Teşekkür ederim.

[@aethelwolfe3539]

It wouldn’t be too complicated to make this zero touch you you just need to define an array of lines through geometric logic.