How would you model this (see attached pics)?

[tim.101799]

I have an existing bldg I am currently modeling in Revit. The base of the bldg as well as the upper floor have a lime stone facade. The line stone has relief and accents in several different planes. Seeing how these changes in plane are not continuous across the facade sweeps would not be the best tool to use in my opinion. But then what is the beast way to model these features.

Currently I have a couple of idea, but I do not want to waste time trying them until I hear from some of the more skilled users on the forum.

1. Model the shapes out of masses and assign a wall type the the mass by face

2. embed a slightly thicker wall with in the base wall to create the required relief.

[patricks]

It might help to know what extent of detail you need for this existing building? Are you planning to render the existing building and need it to look as close as possible to how it is in real life? Is it only to show in elevation?

[jcoe]

I agree with patricks. More information is needed. The level of detail you need will, to some degree, determine the best method of representation.

[rkitect]

By relief are you talking about the raised panels above the alcoves? If so I would just make a simple wall hosted extrusion family...

Or if you want to show the panels, you could utilize a curtain wall with custom panels created with actual wall assemblies.

HTH

_Carl

[tim.101799]

We are planning on using the model for a rendering

[chris.hitchcock.nz]

We model a lot of Relief panels on walls etc, or reveals around windows, i personally find in place familys the way to go, Create, and usually put it as a wall, and then select the external wall plane as a reference, and go to town, quite easy for repeat details, like the little dentils across the top, once you sketch one then array it along within the overall sketch,this seems to work fine. Simpler reveals (flat and straight) i use the wall hosted sweeps etc. Just use what you are comfortable with, and works best for you.
We then take our models into 3ds Max 8 and simple enough to render up. And all the inplace familys stay where they should.

[mschroeder]

Looks like stone, precast and brick. We've used a combination of the curtain walls (for the precast body), window families (for the custom openings) and wall sweeps. Groups manage the repetitive patterns.