In theory I was just placing an instance of the church model
at an elevation of about 150m, within the churchyard, but inevitably whenever I
look at one of these massing studies for any length of time I find myself
wanting to do updates. I started with an improvement to the window family so
that it shows up on both sides of the extrusion that represents a wall. Then of
course I went inside to check how this was working.
Revit has always been an application that favours
orthographic and isometric views for modelling but we did get true perspective
without a crop region a few years ago, and this can sometimes be a great way to
model interior elements. It’s been a while since I did much of this and it was
rarely in Family Editor, so I got quite excited about fleshing out the interior
of the West Woodhay church in a perspective view. For the most part, these are
extrusions, but I did convert the roof truss into a nested family after a
while. Better for memory management and for…