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Revit Building Pads, Topography and phases

Basically, if you have one site toposurface, and you cut it with pads in different phases, then an ‘outline’ around every single pad appears in the creation phase of the toposurface (they affect the t…

2012-11-26 · Luke Johnson
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Problems with topography at adjacent Pad Edges?

You know when you have two pads meeting at a common edge, and then Revit for some reason shows this tiny sliver of created topography between them? Try this: Set the two Pads to have the same ‘Level’ …

2011-09-20 · Luke Johnson
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Using Building Pads Properly – great tips from CAD Addict

Two tips that I found of particular value: “…click on Graded Surface… If you don’t do this first step, you will not get Cut and Fill counts when you create Building Pads.” and “Be sure that first you …

2011-06-09 · Luke Johnson