How to make a swimming pool?

[athanasiosmavrides]

Can anyone describe briefly or in detail how to make a swimming pool in Revit (something as a tutorial) or if it is quite difficult some old thread addresses. I tried but it came up only one thread not very helpful.


Thanks in advance!!!

[Dimitri Harvalias]

That's a pretty open ended request. Can the pool be constructed as simple walls and a series of sloped floor slabs or is it and unusual shape that might require some in place family work? Is showing the water in a rendering the concern or is it just for working drawings?

Give us a quick sketch and we might be able to offer something a little more specific.

[sbrown]

There are many ways to do this. If it is to be repeated often, make it as a site family with voids and extrusions assigned to various subcategories.

In-place make it with walls, and inplace families for the bottom and water.

[tbarnesarc]

Post a sketch & I should be able to help. I have recently made a few pools. I used an in-place family with sweeps to do one. Draw the path in plan and the to profile a that should do it. If it more comples use the massing tool with voids etc. and use roofs to define the pool off the mass.

[david.kingham]

This is a very basic family a coworker created, might help ya :shrug:

Had to dig for a backup that wasn't in 8.1 lol

[athanasiosmavrides]

How about something like this?
if it quite complicated we can make something simpler with sloping bottom.

Thanks everybody.

[athanasiosmavrides]

DID YOU FORGET ME GUYS? THANKS FOR THE FAMILY, BUT TO GET SOMETHING READY IS QUITE GOOD FOR SOMETHING MUCH LESS THE SAME. HOW ABOUT IF I WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING FROM THE SCRATCH? WHAT ARE THE STEPS? THANK YOU ALL!

[blads]

DID YOU FORGET ME GUYS? THANKS FOR THE FAMILY, BUT TO GET SOMETHING READY IS QUITE GOOD FOR SOMETHING MUCH LESS THE SAME. HOW ABOUT IF I WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING FROM THE SCRATCH? WHAT ARE THE STEPS? THANK YOU ALL!

To create the pool shown in the image below, I did the following:

note:
mind you all I had to do was locate the pool for Council inspectors, so I didn't need to do a sloping bottom.

1. Create walls - I used created a sweep along a path to define the curvy walls
2. Added the coping - again used another sweep
3. Attach a foor (flat) to walls

Hope that helps...
ps next time - dont type in all uppercase that usually means your shouting, which is only helpful if your in a pub buying s

[richelleharp]

Thanks for this. I know it was an old post, yet I was happy to be able to resurrect it as just today I was contacted by a repeat client for whom in past I have created 2D landscaping plans. I am sure eventually I will be able to produce a nice Revit generated toposurface with the necessary grading changes and hardscape.

[ugur2050]

This is a very basic family a coworker created, might help ya :shrug:

Had to dig for a backup that wasn't in 8.1 lol

How can ı open .rfa files.Can you advice programme? thank you.