It takes a bit to build the first time, but then it's easy to modify and native to Revit. If you can live with the Revit category issues and aesthetics of a stepped topography, I'd go with floors. Split pieces of topography like Dimitri suggests! It works, but the minute you split a piece of topography, you can move the adjacent edges and never be able to line it up again. You can export an SAT file from Rhino and import it into an In-Place Family in Revit, call it whatever category you want, and go from there.ĥ. However, creating a volume with a smooth surface an volume cut out for the building to sit in is a lot easier in many other programs like Rhino.
#Revit 2011 topography software#
Switching and sharing models between software is time consuming. I try to keep as much native to Revit as possible for performance and efficiency. However, then you have to show Masses in all your views where you want to see it.Ĥ. The Mass is nice because you can have a triangulated, slopy top surface like topography. (Shafts in an option will only cut floors/roofs/ceilings in that option.)ģ. Or you can create an Option Set with only one option for all the floors and then use shafts to cut the building out of the topo-floors. Each floor will have a hole in it that corresponds to the outline of the building at it's height. You create a stepped topography this way where the floor thickness equals the height between topo lines. If you receive your site survey as topo lines, this is pretty easy. In section, use the ground level option with no earth hatch.Ģ. In plans, turn on the appropriate option. Now, our imaginary client is getting sick of rectangular shapes. The inspiration is this elevator lobby: Let's model it to some extent in Revit using walls, reference planes, floor, materials, doors, roof by footprint, in-place roof (revolve), sloped glazing, join geometry, etc. Place the topography in all of the options and then edit each to have the footprint be the largest boundary of the building at the level. For Monday, ApElevator Lobby with Design Options. Create an Option Set for topography and as many Options as there are floors below grade.
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If you want hatch in your plans and/or sections, deal with adding and keeping up-to-date a fill region on each drawing.ġ. Don't use building pads and just split the topography around the building where the building enters the earth. I've been trying to find work-arounds for your second problem for years! Here are some of the ones I used, some discovered by me and some by others.Ġ. Has anyone encountered a solution to these issues? I am then force to hide this particular surface everytime I want to section it. I cannot set a building pad to this and I cannot set a "minimum" bottom level to this surface of "earth" underneath the topography.
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The issue I encounter all the time is that I cut a section through it and there is a greyed out area on any space underneath the surface. The other issue I have is that some of the topography on this model (a different topography surface to the previous) is actually on top of the building as a green roof (much of the building is in the basement). I would expect that there is nothing I can do about that. On my model some of the pads are actually sloped and have a ramp at the top. I have seen a similar thread to this on this site but it only asked about multi level pads which were horizontal. I have a few issues regarding topography with my current model.