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You may have seen the “extents greater than 20 miles (33km)” warning in Revit before: Extents greater than 20 miles (33km) I have previously posted about ways to clean up DWG files, best and worst pra…
If you are on Subscription, you can login to your Updates page and download Autodesk Shared Reference Point extension to connect coordinates in Revit with Civil3D. For Revit 2016 http://download.autod…
We often work with consultants using Tekla Structures, but we only recently came across the issue of trying to import point clouds into Tekla. The officially recommended workflow is:Leica / Trimble sc…
Note: you will need to login to Subscription to download …Autodesk® Shared Reference Point 2015 provides functionality to export known points and elevation from AutoCAD® Civil 3D software to an extern…
Mark Cronin has put together a nice guide describing how to clean up point cloud data in Civil3D, make a surface and then import that into Revit for topography creation. This is an alternative to usin…
Here are 3 video presentations from the BIM Day Out of particular interest: Handling Point Cloud Data Open embedded content: www.youtube.com Revit to Civil 3DOpen embedded content: www.youtube.com Tek…
I think Civil3D is a very powerful and useful tool. I have even found some ways to make it work nicely with Revit, by using it to do graphical slope analysis, or using it to increase Topography resolu…
01/31/2013: Target date for graduation to Autodesk Subscription Center via Autodesk Labs Utilities BIM Coordinator Updates I first posted about BIM Coordinator way back in May 2012:https://wrw.blackgr…
You receive a DWG file from a surveyor, and you need to get it into Revit. You go through all the usual cleanup steps. You have purged, scaled, done a write-block, audited. You link the DWG into Revit…
Civil 3D is really good at some things. I use it to perform graphic slope analysis on the site surface, which I then export and import into Revit as an image. There are various ways to clean up and br…