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 :beer: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.

[jeffh]

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

Revit opens RFA files.

[trombe]

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!!!

Please find suitable (public) living tutorial for reverse engineering.
example has been edited in Revit 8.1 but not touched since.
regards
trombe

[david.kingham]

wow this brings back memories....original post is over 3 years old

[michael.loistl175399]

You can find a really good parametric Swimming Pool at http://www.revit-content.com/content/09-5847994-Swimming_Pool.htm

[MRV]

I don't like seeing you advertise in this forum...

[Ning Zhou]

right.
Don't advertise in this forum pls!!!

[Phil Read]

I'd suggest making it in the family editor (for the pool) and nest other elements (ladder, diving platform) or just assemble the other elements in the project.

Cobbling this together out of a combination of walls, flloors and in-place geometry is just too messy from a change management standpoint. It'll be easier to model everything in one place (Family Editor) and when you need to move the pool (up/down/rotate/etc) it'll move as one component.

-Phil

[nancy.mcclure]

I have to say, I didn't mind seeing revit-content.com's link, because there's nothing that says we have to buy their content, but it's nice to see some visual examples of how others have approached the problem. I now have some ideas of how to build my own version(s), especially the touch about having parametric water level! ;^D

Yes, we're here to learn from and spread knowledge to each other in an open forum, gratis, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't know what's out there!

Respectfully,

[mostafa90]

i liked the idea of the wall (in-place) it solved much problems... thanks guys:)

[patricks]

I have to say, I didn't mind seeing revit-content.com's link, because there's nothing that says we have to buy their content, but it's nice to see some visual examples of how others have approached the problem. I now have some ideas of how to build my own version(s), especially the touch about having parametric water level! ;^D

Yes, we're here to learn from and spread knowledge to each other in an open forum, gratis, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't know what's out there!

Respectfully,

I don't like someone posting a link like that as if they were just some person who found it, when they're actually trying to peddle the product in the link. Just come out and say it - you're with so-and-so company and you have this product that others may find useful. Don't try to hide your intentions behind the internet.