Please enter the following info in the fields above:
- Your Name as the Card title
- The link to your Module 5 folder in our Autodesk Construction Cloud project
Please also type the first few letters of your first name into the Link to Student field, then hover over your name from the list of matching records and click the blue plus sign to link this entry to your Design Journal.
Then, share your Design Journal entry here including:
- Screenshots of your building form geometry from each stage of the assignment that you completed:
- For 2 or More Units: Creating Forms with Revit Conceptual Masses
- Images/screenshots showing two variations of the input parameters for:
- Part 1: your flexing and testing one of the provided example building forms
- Part 2: your flexing and testing your new, original building form
- Point to Ponder: What’s the advantage of exporting the values to Excel?
- For 3 or More Units: Creating Forms with Dynamo or Grasshopper Geometry
- Images/screenshots showing two variations of the input parameters for your new building form created with Dynamo or grasshopper
- For 4 Units: Summarizing the Testing Results
- An image of your summary table showing the test results highlighting the maximum and minimum values found
For part 1, I used the "Parametric Tower - Twisting Simple Triangle Mass" in Revit's Conceptual Mass to construct the building form and imported it into the Revit project model. To conduct parameter tests, I selected "Top Height" as the input parameter and set 7 test cases from 672 to 744 feet at intervals of 12 feet. In each case, except for the Top Height, all other parameters remained unchanged: Top Rotation was 60°, Top Radius was 220', Mid Rotation was 45°, Mid Radius was 160', Mid Height was 200', Base Rotation was 0°, and Base Radius was 280'. This ensured that the Gross Floor Area was between 2,500,000 and 3,000,000 SF. Then, I set up the graphic logic in Dynamo, changed the Top Height value, updated the mass element in Revit, obtained the Gross Floor Area, Gross Surface Area, and Gross Volume for each case, and exported the results to an Excel table.
Parameters that can be used to flex and dynamically change:
Top Height (I used this one in part 1)
Top Rotation, Radius
Mid Height, Rotation, Radius
Base Height, Rotation, Radius
In Part 2, I used the "Template — Twisting Tower — 3 Profiles.rfa" template. I selected "Top Height" as the parameter and set it from 636 feet, increasing by 12 feet each time, for a total of 6 test cases, up to 696 feet. In each test case, the remaining parameters remained constant, including Top Rotation at 30°, Top Width at 400', Top Depth at 200', Mid Rotation at 20°, Mid Width at 700', Mid Depth at 200', Mid Height at 560', Base Rotation at 10°, Base Width at 900', and Base Depth at 300'. This ensured that the Gross Floor Area was between 2,500,000 and 3,000,000 square feet. Finally, I used Dynamo to export the Gross Floor Area, Gross Surface Area, and Gross Volume of the 6 test cases to an Excel spreadsheet.
Parameters that can be used to flex and dynamically change:
Top Height (I used this one in part 2)
Top Rotation, Width, Depth
Mid Height, Rotation, Width, Depth
Base Height, Rotation, Width, Depth
The advantage of exporting the results to Excel is that it allows you to flex parameters like Top Height in Dynamo and automatically output updated results. Excel also makes it easier to organize the data clearly for comparison and trend observation.