Getting Started

Getting started with using the model editor!

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

Understand the Model Editor user interface

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:21 How to follow this video using the online version
• 0:54 User interface overview
• 6:55 Merge the snapshots into a single snapshot

Remove holes and clean up room edges

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:30 Room editing commands overview
• 1:25 Turn off commands help popup
• 1:42 Remove the holes inside the rooms using the "Remove Holes" command
• 2:04 Changing units
• 2:33 Remove columns at the edge of the rooms using the "Remove Short Segments" command
• 3:17 Clean up the room walls using the "Join Coplanar Faces" command
• 4:09 Summary

Find alignment issues and gaps in the model

• 0:00 Review the causes of misalignments and gaps in Revit
• 0:45 Highlighting non-orthogonal lines using ALT + O
• 1:28 Find adjacency gaps using a command with the same name
• 2:48 Explain the strategy to fix the internal misalignments versus the facade alignment
• 3:25 How to delete the points

Fix alignment issues and gaps

• 0:00 Review "Pull to Room" and "Align to Room" commands
• 0:24 Use the "Pull to Room" command
• 0:55 Create alignment lines
• 1:18 Considerations about creating infinite alignment lines
• 1:37 Local alignment lines
• 2:15 Use the "Align" command for the first time
• 2:48 Fix other gaps in the model
• 3:36 Fix the misalignments caused by the artistic separation lines
• 5:14 Fix the interior and facade misalignments
• 6:06 Clean up the room edge. An example of using the "Pull to Room" command effectively
• 6:50 Aligning the exterior facade for all three levels
• 10:30 Review the quality of the alignment and fix the issues
• 11:31 A word of caution about not cleaning up the model more than what is needed

Validate the model

• 0:00 Use the "Validation" command
• 0:44 Checking the validation errors
• 1:16 Use the 3D preview
• 1:36 Use the "Repair Windows" command to repair the windows
• 3:50 Undo history
• 4:57 Use the "Repair Windows" command to repair the windows for the second case

Check every level for one last time

• 0:00 Manage level's visibility
• 0:45 Place missing rooms using the "Fill gaps" command
• 1:56 Edit rooms' properties in the table
• 3:23 Use solve adjacency and check for gaps
• 4:55 Quality check the second level
• 5:22 Quality check the third level

Add shades and prepare the model for export to IES VE

• 0:00 Add shades' snapshot to the model
• 1:17 Check ceiling adjacencies
• 2:06 Export options
• 2:30 Using the "Snap to Grid" command as an addition step before exporting to IES VE
• 6:17 Our pact with the Pollination users

Model simplification before export to eQuest

• 0:00 Review the level of the details in the model
• 1:12 Use the "Merge Room" command for merging rooms
• 3:26 Use the "Simplify Windows" command to simplify the windows
• 6:50 Export to an INP file to export the model to eQuest

Create a core perimeter model

• 0:00 Switch to the entry-level before clean-up
• 1:02 Use the "Merge Rooms" command with a higher tolerance to avoid clean-up
• 2:42 Use the "Split Core and Perimeter" command
• 3:44 Model boundary cleanup
• 5:26 Re-run the "Split Core and Perimeter" command
• 6:05 Closing remarks