Twist a wrought iron rod

[harry123456]

Where do I begin to create a family that looks like my atttachment?

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[Revit Zone]

Hi there

What a great question

The closest I have come to, in trying to achieve this, is.........

Twistedrod_01.jpg (13.77 KiB) Viewed 1565 times

I did this in the "Conceptual Design Environment". I created a series of profiles, all on different levels- one above the next. And then just chose "Create Form".....

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This bascially just uses the "Loft" function of Revit. Once you have produced a full "revolution", you could then just copy this as many times as neccessary to create the complete twisted part of the rod.

A tutorial on forming "Lofts" can be found here.....

http://www.revitzone.com/conceptual-des ... -loft-form

I'm sure there are other methods of doing this and would love to hear from othere.

Cheers,
Ian

[harry123456]

Thanks Ian that great. Working on it now.

[Revit Zone]

Thanks Ian that great. Working on it now.

You're very welcome

To be honest, it does seem a bit of a long-winded way of doing it. I'm sure there must be an easier way- if I find it, I'll post it here!

'Looking forward to seeing your finished result

Cheers,
Ian