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  • Understand the Model Editor user interface
  • Remove holes and clean up room edges
  • Find alignment issues and gaps in the model
  • Fix alignment issues and gaps
  • Validate the model
  • Check every level for one last time
  • Add shades and prepare the model for export to IES VE
  • Model simplification before export to eQuest
  • Create a core perimeter model

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  1. Model Editor

Getting Started

Getting started with using the model editor!

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Last updated 9 months ago

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This page includes several videos that walk you through the process of cleaning up the advanced Revit sample model. You don't need the sample snapshot or the Revit plugin to follow this video. You can use the online version of the Model Editor and select the sample model by clicking on the Pollination logo on the bottom right side of the screen and selecting About.

See to learn how to create this snapshot using the Pollination Revit plugin.

Understand the Model Editor user interface

Remove holes and clean up room edges

Find alignment issues and gaps in the model

Fix alignment issues and gaps

Validate the model

Check every level for one last time

Add shades and prepare the model for export to IES VE

Model simplification before export to eQuest

Create a core perimeter model

Introduction

How to follow this video using the online version

User interface overview

Merge the snapshots into a single snapshot

Introduction

Room editing commands overview

Turn off commands help popup

Remove the holes inside the rooms using the "Remove Holes" command

Changing units

Remove columns at the edge of the rooms using the "Remove Short Segments" command

Clean up the room walls using the "Join Coplanar Faces" command

Summary

Review the causes of misalignments and gaps in Revit

Highlighting non-orthogonal lines using ALT + O

Find adjacency gaps using a command with the same name

Explain the strategy to fix the internal misalignments versus the facade alignment

How to delete the points

Review "Pull to Room" and "Align to Room" commands

Use the "Pull to Room" command

Create alignment lines

Considerations about creating infinite alignment lines

Local alignment lines

Use the "Align" command for the first time

Fix other gaps in the model

Fix the misalignments caused by the artistic separation lines

Fix the interior and facade misalignments

Clean up the room edge. An example of using the "Pull to Room" command effectively

Aligning the exterior facade for all three levels

Review the quality of the alignment and fix the issues

A word of caution about not cleaning up the model more than what is needed

Use the "Validation" command

Checking the validation errors

Use the 3D preview

Use the "Repair Windows" command to repair the windows

Undo history

Use the "Repair Windows" command to repair the windows for the second case

Manage level's visibility

Place missing rooms using the "Fill gaps" command

Edit rooms' properties in the table

Use solve adjacency and check for gaps

Quality check the second level

Quality check the third level

Add shades' snapshot to the model

Check ceiling adjacencies

Export options

Using the "Snap to Grid" command as an addition step before exporting to IES VE

Our pact with the Pollination users

Review the level of the details in the model

Use the "Merge Room" command for merging rooms

Use the "Simplify Windows" command to simplify the windows

Export to an INP file to export the model to eQuest

Switch to the entry-level before clean-up

Use the "Merge Rooms" command with a higher tolerance to avoid clean-up

Use the "Split Core and Perimeter" command

Model boundary cleanup

Re-run the "Split Core and Perimeter" command

Closing remarks

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