Revit Face Based Families and Reference Planes

Sharing a short video on how Revit face-based families can host to reference planes and a few related tips and tricks.

For example, do you know why these two lighting fixtures point in different directions?

Or, do you know how to move a face-based family between two reference planes that are vertically offset without moving the fixture in plan?

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Autodesk Customer Story and Video Featuring Lake|Flato

Autodesk recently stopped by our office and created a video and customer story featuring our own office remodel and some of the tools we used.

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Dell Features Lake|Flato Technology Strategy in New Video

Dell, with support from NVIDIA and Intel, produced a video featuring Lake|Flato's technology strategy within our newly remodeled office in San Antonio, Texas.

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New YouTube Videos - Early Energy Modeling Course

I've added three new videos to the Early Energy Modeling series on YouTube.

See the new videos, and the entire series, via this YouTube Playlist link: https://bit.ly/3O9ZtuK

The new videos were created using Revit 2024 and recorded in 4k.

Internal Loads

Learn how to manage light power density, latent/sensible heat per person, set points, ACH, schedules, & more.  https://youtu.be/n0oG3bkti3E

FYI: I will create another video soon showing how internal loads can be defined on a space-by-space basis.

Building Evenlope Settings

Learn how to apply and manage the building envelope's thermal resistance and thermal mass properties. This demonstration looks at both a Revit model and a Revit mass and the various ways these properties are applied to the energy analysis model. https://youtu.be/HMUwTRD8w54

Defining Glazing

This video shows how glazing can be defined very accurately... including custom SHGC, VLT, and U values. https://youtu.be/ARijTvuOw7E

I plan on doing another video looking specifically at glazing.

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YouTube Video on Revit Content - Part 1

In today's post I want to share part 1 of a training session I did a few months ago. It was part of a rather informal presentation, so not super polished. It covers, in a single presentation, the basics of Revit content... such as:

• Mass elements
• Model in-place
• Loadable content

When to use, when to avoid and such... is the focus of this presentation.

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Virtual Project Tours of Real Projects

I have been wanting to use our 360 Photosphere camera to create a virtual tour of a project. We finally did just that last week for a project in construction; Hermantown Essentia YMCA Wellness Center. The  local Chamber of Commerce held an open house last night and attendees got to get in the project and safely view it without actually going to the site. We already did Virtual Reality, and now that the project is under construction, we wanted to present something new.

Another interesting thing about this project is how we used ElumTools to do specialized daylighting calculations to comply with Minnesota's B3 program (similar to LEED). The image below shows the favorable results; solatubes fully lighting the interior space with just daylight!

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New ArchSmarter Course - Revit MEP Remodels and Alternates

I am excited to announce my new ArchSmater Course titled Revit MEP Remodels and Alternates. This easy to follow multi-media set will quickly help any MEP designer, engineer or contractor understand the ins-and-outs of important concepts such as phasing and design options, which are often required on sustainable, remodel, addition and bid option projects.

"This course was developed by an accomplished author who has presented on this topic all over the world and co-developed the popular Revit MEP Productivity Pack (MEPPP) managed by CTC Software."

This post will provide a few highlights, but be sure to head over to the ArchSmarter site for the full rundown and to access a free sample video segment.

ArchSmarter course link: Revit MEP Remodels and Alternates

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Enscape Blog Post: BEST PRACTICES: VIDEO CREATION IN REVIT 2019

My latest Enscape blog post is now live. It covers the steps required to create a complex camera path within Escape, when creating a video. It is also worth noting that Enscape supports Autodesk Revit 2019. In fact, this entire article was written using that new version of Revit.

One really nice thing about  developing a camera path in Enscape is it works the same in Revit, SketchUp and Rhino. The image below shows a...