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Massing Studies

Explore design ideas by using shapes to conceptualize a building model.

Topics in this section
  • About Massing Studies
    You can use massing studies to perform a variety of tasks.
  • About Masses and Mass Families
    You can create masses within a project (in-place masses) or outside a project (loadable mass families).
  • About Mass Instances in Design Options, Phases, and Worksets
    You can assign mass instances to any workset, range of phases, and design options.
  • About Overlapping Mass Faces
    In the project environment, any joined and overlapping mass faces split into 2 faces: interior and exterior. This behavior allows you to create interior or exterior hosts by face.
  • About Printing Mass Elements
    To print mass elements, be sure that mass category visibility is turned on.
  • Massing Studies Terminology
    Before using the software to perform massing studies, learn these terms.
  • Create an In-Place Mass
    Create a mass that is specific to the context of the current project. This mass cannot be reused in other projects.
  • Create a Mass Family
    When you create a mass family in the Family Editor, you can then load the family into a project, and place instances of the mass family in the project.
  • Place a Mass Instance in a Project
    After creating a mass family in the Family Editor, load the family into a project, and place one or more instances of the mass family in the project.
  • Join Mass Instances in a Project
    You can include multiple mass instances in a project. To eliminate overlap, use the Join Geometry tool to join a mass instance to other mass instances.
  • Control Visibility of Mass Instances
    You can control whether a view displays masses using view settings or settings in the Visibility/Graphics dialog, and whether the view shows mass floors, surfaces, and zones.
  • Conceptual Design Environment
    During the conceptual design phase, create masses to explore ideas and perform early analyses. As the design matures, manipulate these forms to use as the basis for more detailed architecture.
  • Analyzing a Conceptual Design
    During the early planning stages of a building project, you can analyze the conceptual design in several ways and for various purposes.
  • Creating Building Elements from Mass Instances
    You can create building elements from the faces of mass instances, generic models, imported solids, and polymeshes.
  • Importing Massing Studies from Other Applications
    You can use 3D design software to create large-scale massing studies, and then use Revit LT to associate host elements (walls, roofs, and so on) to the mass faces.
  • Mass Instance Properties
    Modify instance properties to generate mass floors, or to see the gross volume, surface area, and floor area of the selected mass.
Parent topic: Architectural Design

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