ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/952538/how-to-model-floors-roofs-and-ceilings-in-revit Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:30:00 +0000 Jaime Montava Miró https://www.archdaily.com/952538/how-to-model-floors-roofs-and-ceilings-in-revit Floors, roofs, ceilings. Speaking in a very generic way, they are practically all the horizontal elements that we can find in the construction of a building. These three parts have a very similar way of modeling in Revit and this is the reason why when learning this software, they almost always appear one after the other. The order is usually a rather logical and therefore similar order: starting first with the floors, later the soffits and, finally, the ceilings. All this, clearly after having modeled the exterior and interior walls of our building.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/951531/how-to-model-ramps-and-stairs-in-bim-using-autodesk-revit Thu, 19 Nov 2020 04:00:00 +0000 Jaime Montava Miró https://www.archdaily.com/951531/how-to-model-ramps-and-stairs-in-bim-using-autodesk-revit One of the great difficulties we encounter with “classic” plan delineation methodologies are ramp and stair projections. It has always been difficult to avoid calculating the ramp’s slope, as well as the dimensions of the footprint and riser of the communication staircase between two floors of a building. Do they comply with current regulations in my country? Do they adapt to the project standards? Will they be accurately calculated?

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]]> https://www.archdaily.com/881660/how-to-make-beautiful-stylized-floor-plans-using-photoshop Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:30:00 +0000 RenderPlan https://www.archdaily.com/881660/how-to-make-beautiful-stylized-floor-plans-using-photoshop This article was originally published by RenderPlan as "How to Render an AutoCAD Floor Plan with Photoshop."

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/782666/these-15-second-videos-teach-you-how-to-architect Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:00:00 +0000 Katie Watkins https://www.archdaily.com/782666/these-15-second-videos-teach-you-how-to-architect Covering everything from the definition of a volute to a look at Eero Saarinen’s Dulles international airport, Doug Patt’s “How to Architect” videos offer 15 second glimpses into the world of architecture. Posted on his Instagram account daily, each video explores one fact related to architecture. At the end of each week, the facts are compiled into a longer video on YouTube.

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