Revit TotD – 3.30.09: French Curve snaps!


Welcome back to Revit TotD!  Hope everyone had a great weekend, and is looking forward to yet another Revit Tip of the Day!

As usual, today’s tip is courtesy of that AHA! moment where I think that I’m taking something for granted that may not be known by some.¬† That is what a tip of the day is to me, helping increase your knowledge!¬† So I’m sitting here trying to achieve as close to an organic form that Revit allows, and I find the easiest way to form a continuous tangent curve is by utilizing the Tangent snap.

You can use this to create a a continuous curve.  The tangents will snap to any adjoining line, as demonstrated in this video.

With some patience you can actually use revit to create some rather flowing curves!

Continuous Sketch Lines
Continuous Sketch Lines
Final Extrusion
Final Extrusion

Thanks for stopping by, and as usual I hope you come away with something new!  Enjoy!

-Carl Gibson