SEQUENCE UPGRADE

This is from a few days ago. Adding another layer of detail to this Gosport church (St John the Evangelist, Forton). It’s difficult to see the side elevations clearly in modern photographs, but there is a historic image available online. Windows of the aisles and clerestory are contained within recesses in the face-brick.

 

Now I’m using face-based families within a master family representing the whole church. Turns out that if you add the windows first, they lose their ability to cut the host once the recess is added. So the recesses come first, creating a new face which can now host the windows. Just as in real construction, the order of events is critical.  GSR (get the sequence right)

 

Also available online is a floor plan of the church, created when the new chancel etc was added to the east. This has been very helpful in adjusting the size and proportions of the various elements and gaining some insight into the design logic. It looks like Blomfield used a different bay spacing for the aisles outer wall and the clerestory windows. I’ve seen this on a couple different projects now. My guess is that it’s based on the structural timber supporting the respective roofs.

 

 

I’ve been having problems posting images to LinkedIn from my phone. I tried to post about this Revit upgrade at the time but it aborted and I was already in bed. Anyway GAJ head office has transitioned from 2024 to 2026. I’m not currently working on any commercial projects but I remain available to the office if required and I would like to stay in touch with Dubai after I move to UK. So makes sense to be on the same version.

Fortunately my Way We Build work is all in the ACC cloud so upgrade is a breeze. Initiate, leave it to do it’s thing, come back a couple of hours later and dozens of Revit files have been upgraded with all the links intact. Just to think how many hours I spent on upgrades from 2005 up to 2019 when we pretty much gave up on working over the local network.