From the course: Revit: Parametric Curvature in the Family Editor
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Building a cyma profile family - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Revit: Parametric Curvature in the Family Editor
Building a cyma profile family
- [Narrator] Okay, so we've analyzed our problem, we've figured out all the trigonometry in the formulas, we've built our rig, so in this video we're ready to actually create our Cyma profile. So to get started I will go to the create tab and click the line button, remember we're in a profile family so the only kind of geometry we can create here is lines. And I'll start with a center-ends arc. And if you watched the previous video you know that we created this purple color for the center reference plane so it makes it a little easier to remember where they are. So I'll click right there for the center of this first arc, snap it to the left and bottom reference planes, and then the other end is going to be snapping to the green reference planes that mark the center of the profile. Now a lot of activity happens on screen when we do that so let me click the modify tool to cancel out of the command and let's get this arc locked down first before we continue. So I'm going to select it…
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