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Create apartment B: Sketch and mirror - Formit Pro Tutorial
From the course: Learning Formit Pro
Create apartment B: Sketch and mirror
- [Instructor] I want to create apartment B and mirror it in an apartment C, and I'm just going to show some different techniques to create the forms very quickly. If you look on the option that shows the layers, you should see that what I've done is just turned on the layer that showed where the massing object was, so I'm about to create the mass B. Another way to create this very quickly would be to draw using line work, and when the line work is closed, you would create a surface that I can then extrude. And a fast way would be to choose the rectangle. So it was important that I put this in a group, because then any of the line work that I create is not joined to the forms that are in that group. So if I go along the back of my form, back of my apartment B, and then come to the front, I've got a surface. I can then escape, pick that surface, and I'm going to drag it up and I can use the fact that I can kind of imply the…
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Project location and orientation1m 59s
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Manage the image and rotate the grid2m 44s
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Site context using imported files3m 43s
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Create apartment A: Primitive9m 18s
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Create apartment B: Sketch and mirror4m 2s
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Create apartment C: Separate AXM file and linework6m 46s
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Assign levels for an energy study2m 40s
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Balcony type A: Extruding tools10m 40s
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Balcony type B: Sweeps4m 21s
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Balcony type C: Lofting tools3m 2s
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Linear arrays of balconies5m 3s
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Set axis and model shade roof3m 31s
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Site context: Surrounding buildings31s
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Review weather data and submit to Insight2m 11s
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The Insight dashboard3m 33s
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