After my last post about The Engineers Guide to Drinks I got lots of nice reactions, tips and suggestions. The coolest thing was Shaan Hurley making a blog post about the project on his Between the Lines blog. Meanwhile I have done a bit more work on the first glass as well. One thing I wanted to do is be able to tag the different liquids with their material and their volume, which I was not able to do with the family I had as it was just 1 family with everything in it. I had given this a little thought and Aaron Maller over at revitforum.org confirmed what I was thinking. So I was going to need separate, shared, nested families for the liquids. The hard work was already done, so I had to take my glass, remove all the geometry except the one layer of liquid, remove the formula’s load into my main family, link parameters and DONE! Well that is the short version at least, took a little longer, but after a few hours I had a working glass again and was now able to tag the liquids.
Unexpected help
To my surprise more people had been working on their own project as I found out when I got an email from Melina Vlachousi:
Hello Robin,
I had tried to work on this as well but it kinda fell through. I managed to build a few families for the glasses and some of the ingredients, maybe they can be useful to you and to others who want to work on this project.
Melina
She also send me the families she had been working on, for us to use:
Pretty sure I will be using the Fruit Squeeze, Fruit Wheel and Cherry and the glasses are a good start for the overall shape, but will need a lot of parameters, but they are a first step.
Added all the materials from the CAD file into my Revit project and setup the first batch of drinks. As you can see did not add the fruit and the way of sturing the drinks yet, but so far this confirmed that everything works well so far.
Adding fruit
Next was the fruit I got from Melina. They were a little to large for my glass, so I scaled them down a bit and added them to the family with a visibility parameter. Rearranged the dashes a bit too, so it all is a bit more compact. We are slowly getting to the end of this glass, when we can start to clean up things a bit and maybe do some things a bit smarter.
Download: http://www.deurloo.net/download/3229/
Now what?
As you can see in the previous post, there are a few more glasses to be build and there needs to be a project made with all the glasses and materials in it, so we can build each cocktail we want. So, if you want to help out in any way, let me know with the reply form below, the contact form on this website, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, engineersguidetodrinks@deurloo.net or on the Revit Forum and we’ll figure out who can do what.
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