Modelling a rock ... a big rock

[studio3p]

Any suggestions on how I might go about modelling the rock featured in the attached photograph? I'm building a cardboard site model and I have no problem building in real life, but when it comes to the digital version I'm wondering if there's a good way to do this in Revit.

[Scott D Davis]

Wow! It's going to need to be modeled in another program, and imported into Revit. There were some 'rock' families somewhere, I think on RUGI, which is "in transit" to this site at the moment.

You could do an approximation in Revit, with a bunch of voids, cutting a solid. If you are creating a cardboard model, you might be able to get it digitized somewhere, but not sure what that would cost!

[beegee]

OT - If it wasn't for the trees, I'd have said that was the Freysinet pensular near Wineglass Bay in Tasmania.

[shaunv68276]

I did a similar rock water feature. all I did was use topography, with points It worked fine for me. + effortless.

[Steve_Stafford]

It's not like you need cd's for the rock right?...you should be able to create a family using solids. Make a bigger block, then carve away the features with voids...think clay and or wood with carving tools. You should be able to approximate it reasonably well.

[beegee]

Shauns right, this one took less than a minute to make with topo points.

[Steve_Stafford]

Guess that depends on how nice you want it to look? To really show the true taper and make it "believable"...you'd need to model it with solids. Either way, it should take a significant amount of time...

[beegee]

Are you casting aspersions at my rock

[Steve_Stafford]

No I'd say I was throwing a rock at your aspersions

[beegee]

Looks like I'm caught between a rock and a hard place.