Add a loft tool to Revit Architecture

[Revit Wishes]

Summary: A loft tool allows users to create a form whose cross-sectional profile varies along a user-created path. The loft tool would have linear, arc or spline segments in both the profile and path. The path would not be limited to a single XY plane.

Description: I wish Revit had a loft tool.

How Used: This tool would be used in a large number of applications, both common and otherwise:

- modeling of a curved wall whose height varies from one end to the other
- a roof that changes slope from one end to the other, but along a curved path
- modeling of roadways, and other transportation-related features
- general modeling of building and structure

This tool would have many other uses in both component and in-place families. The tool would need the following features:

- the ability to change the profile shape along the path at multiple user defined locations (e.g. add profile button then prompts the user to pick a point on the path where a profile plane is to be drawn)
- the ability to define a path that is not limited to one plane

This one tool would overcome most of Revit's modeling weaknesses at the present and propel it into the top tier of building modeling applications available.

Feature Affinity: In-place Families

Submitted By: Wes Macaulay on September 11, 2007

[Wes Macaulay]

So there you have it: the first wish of this wish cycle.

Please post your comments about how you would use a loft tool so the developers have an understanding of why this tool needs to be added to Revit Architecture.

[Brian Myers]

Thanks Wes and it's a tool that I hope we all vote for too. ;)
A good (needed) first wish for sure....

[dbaldacchino]

Hmmm how would I use it? Trust me, I'll find a way ;) Yes, I'm voting for this.

[janunson]

I'd like to add -

Each profile along the path should be able to be controlled parametrically as a sketch in addition to the path.