Hello,
I’m in the business of designing ventilation and smoke extraction systems for underground parking facilities.
The biggest issue I’m seeing right now is that the 3D Revit models are not put together with the level of accuracy necessary by the structural designers to export the model to a supported file type and import into the CFD software platform. Therefore, it’s my responsibility to copy the 3D Revit models and clean-up/prepare them to the level necessary for my use.
The SimScale training team I’m working with provided me with a high level overview of the work needed to our 3D Revit model before it’s ready to be exported for use. A quick summary of items are:
File size is too large with all levels present. Each level to be analyzed should be its own separate file.
The surrounding structure, which makes up the volume of air inside the parking deck to be analyzed, must be drawn “watertight”:
-Eliminate all small gaps:
-on the side walls
-between the floor panels
-between the floor and walls
-Merge individual solids into larger solids:
-each individual floor panel
To help visualize this a bit more, I like to imagine the following:
- block off all entrances, exits, ramps, and any other openings to the exterior or parking levels located above or below completely submerge the parking level of interest with water from floor to ceiling
- any surface that is wetted by the water is the geometry I need to retain
Going back in my career some time ago, I would correlate this to an AutoCAD operation that cross-hatches an area using the “flood” option. Except, I need to be looking at this from a 3D point-of-view rather than 2D.
I am a novice Revit-user, with my only experience so far being ‘Autodesk Revit MEP Fundamentals Online training’. Therefore, I need to call on any Revit experts out there for determining the best approach for getting where I need to go in the most efficient manner.
Is there a way to do what I’m asking or to essentially make a mold of the internal volume of the parking level, while ignoring all of the “small gaps” that exist?
Thanks for your time and I look forward to seeing a response!
Thanks,
Justin