Monday, March 31, 2014

How I Remove seams from Mass and AC revolve surfaces and solids in Revit

Ever want to remove those annoying seams that show up when you create a "revolve" in the Mass and Adaptive component environment for both surfaces and solids as shown in the image below?


The way I have removed them is simply JOIN another piece of geometry to them. 

SOLID REVOLVES
For solids join another solid to it. I use a small cylinder and if I don't want it to show up outside of the solid (a sphere in this case) I hide it within the solid as shown in the image below.




SURFACE REVOLVES
For surfaces, I just use a small void cylinder and "cut" the surface with the void. I don't use a solid cylinder (as the case with the sphere) because solids do not join with surfaces as shown in the image below.




NOTE: When you "cut" a surface with a void or "join" a solid with another solid then you are essentially creating a "new" element that is similar to a Boolean operation in 3dsmax. This new element has no seams!  Hope this helps. 



6 comments:

Paul F. Aubin said...

Nice tip! Thanks.

Dave Baldacchino said...

Great tip!

goalie dan said...

Thanks for your SCRUG presentation; any word on posting the datasets?

Marcello Sgambelluri said...

working on dataset stay tuned

André van Tulder said...

Looking forward to it Marcello. Did I just see that you did another animal, an elephant, over on the dynamo blog! Awesome

3idarchitecture said...

A clever solution ... I disliked the seams but never tried adding another object to get rid of them...