Massing Studies Terminology; Massing Studies And Building Maker - Autodesk 24000-000000-9860 - Revit Architecture - PC User Manual

Create mass families that represent the forms associated with often-used building volumes.
Vary materials, forms, and relations between masses that represent major components of a building or development
using design options.
Abstractly represent phases of a project.
Study zoning compliance, both visually and numerically, by relating a proposed building mass to the zoning envelope
and floor area ratio.
Assemble various complex masses from a library of predefined mass families.
Generate floors, roofs, curtain systems, and walls from mass instances with control over element category, type, and
parameter values. Fully control regeneration of these elements when the mass changes.

Massing Studies Terminology

Term
Massing
Mass Family
Mass Instance or Mass
Mass Editor
Mass Form
Massing Study
Mass Face
Mass Floor
Building Elements
Zoning Envelope

Massing Studies and Building Maker

You create massing studies using Building Maker. Building Maker is a set of tools that draws a closer association
between massing studies and building elements. It is a powerful conceptual design and modelling environment
that takes any overall building form described conceptually and maps it to real-world building elements
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Description
The process of visualizing, studying, and resolving building forms using mass instances.
A family of shapes, belonging to the mass category. An in-place mass family is saved with
the project; it is not a separate file.
An instance of a loaded mass family or an in-place mass family.
A version of the Family Editor used for defining mass families or in-place masses.
The overall form of each mass family or in-place mass family, as created in the Mass Editor.
A study of one or more building forms made from one or more mass instances.
A surface on a mass instance that can be used to create a building element, such as a wall
or roof.
A horizontal slice through a mass at a defined level. Mass floors provide geometric information
about the dimensions of the mass above the slice, up to the next slice or the top of the mass.
Walls, roofs, floors, and curtain systems that can be created from mass instance faces.
A legally defined volume within which a building must be contained. Zoning envelopes can
be modeled as a mass.