Revit with a splash of SketchUp

[bowlingbrad]

Modeled the building in Revit. Cleaned up some of the roof eaves and soffits in Sketchup. My wife uses this image as a base for her watercolor rendering.

[Andy.88917]

Looks awesome....I'd love to see the watercolor as well!

[bowlingbrad]

Developer is selecting colors right now. I'll post the final rendering when complete.
Thanks,
Brad

[Thomas Cummings]

Yes, please post the watercolor!

[Max Lloyd]

I'm curious. Why did you find it easier to clean up the fascia's in SketchUP?

I like to export to SketchUP mainly for the purpose of animation (using the wonderful page tool), but usually find that the model itself is very cumbersome due to its size (therefore would be inclined to get it right in Revit before exporting). Are you having the same problems or do you have any tips for keeping the file size down and making it more manageable in SU?

Having seen some of the presentation work done in SU (check out what Roger Evans dug up, some of it is even done in MS Word!!!!! http://www.pushpullbar.com/forum/sho...ghlight=Avalon ) I'm definitely going to keep trying the Revit su combo to see what's possible, although I must admit, since shadows were introduced to Revit, the need is much less. If only we could get the page tool....please....

[bowlingbrad]

...Why did you find it easier to clean up the fascia's in SketchUP?...

Below is an image of the areas that I used SU to easily clean the corners. This house has the three different eaves/facias that I can't seem to get right in Revit. I just don't know how to accomplish this!

SU also has a very easy tool to paint surfaces. I am using SU's stock materials, and by taking all of the color out I get nice 'white' images for my wife's base watercolor image. She also was asked to try some color options and, again, SU has a wonderful material tool that allows you to change the color of a material and see it change in real time. Great for basic color studies.

Any suggestions to streamline this process in Revit would be great!

[patricks]

I do those "bird boxes" (I think that's what they're called) and the gable fascia trim as in-place extrustions, and then for where it connects to a horizontal fascia board (in the right-most circled area) you could just join the geometry of the roof fascia sweep and the in-place extrusion.

I have fascia sweeps set up for all the 1x board sizes (1x2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 1x12).

[bowlingbrad]

Maybe a small example?

[patricks]

This has gutters on it, but you should be able to get the idea. The highlighted part in the image is the in-place family, everything else is actual model components (roof fascia sweeps).