RevitCat: Nested Revit Repeaters – Gare do Oriente pt 5

How to use Revit adaptive components
and repeaters to create a model of Santiago Calatrava’s roof
structure of the Gare do Oriente in Lisbon:
Part 1 – The rig for one structural column
Part 2 – Placing roof panels onto the rig
Part 3 – Creating the structural elements 
Part 4 – Adding struts to the structure

Part 5 – Assemble Structure on Platforms

YouTube Link

Step by Step checklist:

Add Column Base

• Open your column structure adaptive family created in steps 1 – 4
• Set the work plane as the horizontal reference plane of adaptive point 1
• Place a reference polygon centred on the adaptive point, first making it 4 sided
• It will give four temporary dimensions, one for each side, from the centreline references
• Make these into real dimensions
• Select all four dimensions and associate them to a parameter called ‘Half base’

• Optional:  create a new parameter called Base Width
• Optional:  add a formula to ‘Half base’ = Base Width /2
• Select the four reference lines of the polygon
• Create…