Room and Area Revit Architecture 2012 Slide 2 C H A P T E R
OBJECTIVES Understand and create Rooms and Room Volumes. Understand
and create Gross Building and Areas. Understand Rentable Areas.
Learn how to create Area Schedules. Learn how to create Color
Scheme Legends. Learn how to create Area Reports. Slide 3
Introduction Volume and area are important pieces of information
for architects, engineers, contractors, and owners. In Autodesk
Revit 2012, this type of information is handled by the Room and
Area tools found in the Home toolbar. Slide 4 Room Area and Volume
The Room object is a 3D volumetric object. The following elements
are considered to be bounding elements for room area and volume
calculations: Walls (curtain, standard, in-place, face-based) Roofs
(standard, in-place, face-based) Floors (standard, in-place,
face-based) Ceilings (standard, in-place, face-based) Columns
(architectural, structural with material set to concrete) Curtain
systems Room separation lines Slide 5 Properties dialog box for
Room objects Slide 6 ROOM VOLUMES Room & Area panel Create a
wall enclosure Roof Slide 7 Type Properties Type Properties button
Room Tag With Volume Type Slide 8 GROSS BUILDING AND AREAS an
enclosure New Area Plan dialog box Slide 9 GROSS BUILDING Tag Area
Type drop-down list Notice the Area square foot number has changed
Slide 10 Area Types Slide 11 Gross Building Area Scheme Types Slide
12 Area Type Change the Area Type Instance Properties Slide 13 Area
Schedules Schedule/Quantities button Schedule Properties dialog box
Select Area, Area Type, Name, and Perimeter from the Available
fields : list, and press the Add button Slide 14 Area (Rentable)
Schedule Area Type drop-down list Slide 15 Color Schemes Color
Schemes button Edit Color Scheme dialog box Scheme Definition area
Slide 16 Color Legend drawing Slide 17 AREA REPORT NOTE: You can
pick Select Views from the Range: drop-down list, and select
several floors (views) to report. Export Room/Area Report option
Slide 18 Export Room Area Report Export Room Area Report dialog box
Subfolders in AREA REPORT file Slide 19 Rendering Revit
Architecture 2012 Slide 20 CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Learn how to render
an exterior scene. Learn how to set up an exterior model for
rendering Learn how to set up the Camera view. Learn how to render
an exterior scene Learn how to render Elevations. Learn how to
render an interior scene. Learn how to create grass with 3ds Max 9.
Learn how to use RPC content. Slide 21 Introduction Visualization
has always been important in the practice of architecture. Whether
visualizations sold the project or just made it clear to the
client, they became symbolic of architecture to the public. This
chapter explains the tools in Revit Architecture 2012 to create
these visualizations. Slide 22 Mental Ray Rendering Engine Mental
ray is an Academy Award winning, high-performance, photorealistic
rendering software. It produces images of realism for digital
content creation and design in the areas of entertainment, product
design, and data visualization. The mental ray features include
patented and proprietary ray tracing and rasterizer algorithms. It
supports 32-bit and 64-bit CPUs and Graphics Processing Units
(GPUs) and parallel computer architectures, including networks of
computers for maximum performance. The mental ray software combines
the physically correct simulation of the behavior of light with
full programmability for the creation of any imaginable visual
phenomenon. Slide 23 Rendering The word render (according to the
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) website, http:// Dictionary.com,
accessed April 13, 2010) means to represent; depict, as in
painting: to render a landscape. Computer rendering is used to
create realistic and photorealistic visualizations, or
presentations. These presentations can be made in either still or
animated form. Typically, the operator will export the still
presentations in.JPG or.TIFF file format. For animations,.MOV
or.AVI formats are very popular and can easily be played back
through the Internet or placed on CD or DVD. Slide 24 A few terms
Texture Maps Texture maps are bitmap (raster) images (such as a
picture of bricks) that can be placed on objects, such as walls and
so on. When these objects are rendered, these objects will appear
to be made of these materials. By using texture maps effectively,
you can render visualizations quickly and with great realism RPC
RPC stands for Rich Photorealistic Content, a term used to describe
the software and content associated with ArchVisions award-winning
Image-Based Rendering (IBR) technology. (RPC is also the file
extension for this image-based content.) RPC is the first major
commercial project in the evolution of image- based rendering
technology. Slide 25 Type Properties and Render Appearance Type
Properties and Render Appearance Library dialog boxes Camera Target
Slide 26 Draft rendering 3D Drawing with trees, cars, and people
Draft rendering of drawing Slide 27 Selected area Rendered The area
inside the selected rectangle is rendered Slide 28 Sun direction If
you turn on the Hidden Line and Shadows, you can see the difference
made by changing the direction of the Sun. Changing the Sun
direction Slide 29 Rendering Adjustments Medium rendering of
drawing Change the color of the background Make adjustments in the
Exposure Control dialog box Slide 30 RENDERING ELEVATIONS Select
Orient to View > Elevations > Elevation South Rendered view
with white background and medium quality setting Slide 31 Rendering
an Interior Scene 3D view of interior scene Select locations for
Camera and Target Slide 32 Lighting Rendered interior view INTERIOR
VIEW drawing Lights Placed Slide 33 Exposure Control Exposure
Control dialog box Exposure changed to lighter Slide 34 Rendering
with 3D Studio Max Although Revit Architecture has a good rendering
system, 3D Studio MAX is much better. With its lighting capability
and ability to Animate, it will give you many more options for your
presentations and visualizations Navigation tools DistancePanRotate
Slide 35 Render Scene dialog box Slide 36 MATERIALS IN AUTODESK 3DS
MAX 9 Material Editor WALL MATERIAL Expand Material shape Slide 37
Assign Material Assign Material to Selection icon Slide 38 ADDING
THE SKY Environment and Effects dialog box Slide 39 GRASS IN
AUTODESK 3DS MAX 9 3DS MAX 9 has a Modifier called Hair and Fur. It
has this name because MAX is often used in the gaming industry, and
it is used to apply hair and fur to people and animals. This is a
very sophisticated modifier, and can be easily used to create
realistic grass for architectural visualizations. Hair and Fur
controls Slide 40 ArchVision RPC ArchVision website Slide 41
Environment and Effects Hair and Fur Effects parameters Environment
and Effects dialog box Slide 42 Render the scene
