Journal Entry For
Module 4 - Rise and Shine
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- A screenshot of your model geometry from each part of the assignment that you completed:
- For 2 or More Units: Rise and Shine
- For 3 or More Units: Gonna Need Shades
- (Please note that for parts 2 and 3 I could not figure out how to get the sun settings to display in revit or dynamo so I have attached screenshots of the structures from the revit 3D viewer window. That said, I believe that my nodes have been configured correctly).
- For 4 Units: Shield Your Eyes
- A few sentences describing your modeling approach for each stage
- For stage 1, I wanted to focus on starting simple and building out the complexity of the project once I got the first parts working. I started with a regular arc to keep the geometry simple and I used a clear color gradient image to ensure that the image was showing up as intended. I also made sure to physically separate and group the different sections of the design process.
- For stage 2, I wanted to follow what I learned from stage 1 and build out many of the same principles of division and starting small. However, I ended up running into quite a bit of trouble. I had a remarkable amount of trouble properly importing the family types and custom nodes, encountering file incompatibility issues before I was eventually able to find a workaround. However, I once again ran into trouble here, as mentioned above, because I was unable to figure out how to set up the display previews correctly in revit or dynamo. As such, I couldn’t see the impact of any coloration or the effect of the sun.
- For stage 3, I feel like I had learned a lot from the previous two stages. I had no trouble creating my geometry setup, creating the panels, and even integrating the custom family. That said, I still could not figure out how to get this to display properly so while I believe the nodes are all configured correctly, there was some guesswork.
- A brief description of your design outlining the parameters that can be used to flex and dynamically change your structure
- Stage 1
- Here the start indicates how far along the curve starts, the step size moderates how smooth the curve is, the length indicates the length along the x axis that the curve spans, the wave slider indicates number of waves, amplitude determines the size of the amplitude, and the wall height indicates how high the wave is exturded
- Stage 2
- lower width controls the width of the bottom rectangle, lower length controls the length of the bottom rectangle, lower height controls the height the bottom rectangle is extruded upwards. Upper offset controls how much the upper rectangle is offset with a negative value being inwards, and upper height controls how much the upper rectangle is extruded upwards.
- Stage 3
