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Advanced 3D Modeling for Architectural Design

Outline
1

Getting started

Module overview
Course overview
Get the software
Course resources
2

Wall modeling

Module overview
Create wall types
Create a vertical compound wall
Perform wall cleanup
Control wall junctions
Embed walls
Attach walls
Create slanted and tapered walls
Use wall sweeps
Use wall reveals
Add architectural columns
Practice exercise: Embed walls
3

Curtain wall modeling

Module overview
Create curtain walls
Modify curtain grids
Create and place curtain panel types
Place doors and windows in curtain walls
Challenge exercise: Create an atrium
4

Floors and ceilings modeling

Module overview
Create ceilings
Create ceiling types and edit ceiling grids
Place hosted components
Create upstands with slab edge tools
Use shape editing and assign variable thickness
Practice exercise: Create ceilings
Practice exercise: Floor shape editing
5

Roof modeling

Module overview
Create and assign roof types
Create a mansard roof
Create a glazed roof
Create a dormer on a roof
Create and place fascia and gutters
Practice exercise: Create a mansard roof
6

Stairs and rails modeling

Module overview
Create U-shaped stairs
Create multilevel stairs
Add and modify railings
Sketch railings
Place hosted railings
Practice exercise: Create hosted railings
7

Site and topography modeling

Module overview
Create topography from a CAD file
Edit toposurfaces
Model building pads and site components
Challenge: Create site typography
8

Mass modeling

Module overview
Create mass families
Create void forms
Edit mass families
Apply model by face tools
Challenge exercise: Model by face
9

Rooms and areas modeling

Module overview
Create areas
Schedule areas
Create a room data schedule
Compute room volumes
Practice exercise: Create areas
10

Materials modeling

Module overview
Create materials
Assign materials
Practice exercise: Create and assign materials
Challenge exercise: Create a glazed roof and use room data
11

Course Challenge

Module overview
Course Challenge: Finish the model
12

Final test

Module overview
Start your final test
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Compute room volumes

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Enable volume computations for rooms and work with room bounding parameters to calculate complex volumes. Apply a room color scheme to a view to easily identify rooms.

After completing this video, you’ll be able to:

  • Enable rooms to calculate volumes.
  • Apply a color scheme to rooms.

Video quiz

1. In order for a room to take account of a sloping roof when calculating volume, which parameter needs to be enabled for the roof?

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Step-by-step guide

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