Introduction
Welcome to the Conceptual Modeling Environment
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1. Getting Started with the Massing Environment
Identifying modeling environments
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Access the Conceptual Modeling Environment
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Understanding the Massing Environment
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Creating common massing forms
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Building an in-place mass
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Manipulating forms
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Editing profiles and edges
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Using X-Ray and Dissolve
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Understanding reference-based and model-based lines
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2. Using Massing to Design Building Forms
Importing a site image
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Using DynaMaps to import site data
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Configuring a Revit site model
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Copying between project and massing files
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Setting up a massing file
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Adding levels to conceptual mass families
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Sculpting the basic building block
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Cutting mass floors and pro forma calculations
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Modifying building mass forms
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Applying geometry to massing surfaces
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Modeling with standard building blocks
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Cutting solids with solids
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3. Rationalizing Massing Forms
Understanding divided surfaces
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Loading a conceptual model into a project
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Divided surface properties
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Divided surface pattern application properties
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Dividing and configuring many surfaces
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Creating a custom panel family
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4. Building Custom Pattern-Based Panel Components
Reference line and point relationships
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Establishing nested point hosting behavior
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Adding geometry to a flexible rig
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Creating seamless panels
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Building a complex space frame family rig
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Building geometry and considering overlap at edges
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Using parameters to drive intent
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Making a curtain panel with parametric options
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Making a void form parametric
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5. Refining Panelized Designs
Stitching borders of divided surfaces
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Editing manually stitched adaptive component edges
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Exploring advanced stitching strategies
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Using Dynamo to stitch edge conditions
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Using Dynamo Player and manual stitching
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Placing a massing study in a project
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Working with reporting parameters
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6. Generic Modeling with the Conceptual Modeling Environment
Understanding adaptive points
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Knowing when to use adaptive components
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Using a nested family as a profile
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Using an adaptive component as a profile
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Designing a custom element with an adaptive component
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Choosing the appropriate spline
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Creating the canopy splines
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Approaches to creating a roof surface
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Building a rig for shaping custom beams
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Using intersecting geometry to create custom 3D paths
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Uncutting a void from hard-to-select geometry
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Creating geometry along the edge of other geometry
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7. Divided Paths and Repeaters
Understanding divided paths
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Understanding hosted component orientation
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Creating repeaters
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Using repeaters in project with in-place massing
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Using repeaters with paths and surfaces to create form
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Building an adaptive rig for a custom repeater
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Building a custom repeater from an adaptive rig
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Incorporate divided paths in custom adaptive patterns
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Creating a flexible void family with formula limits
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Creating an attractor using a repeater
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Sample projects
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Conclusion
What's next?
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