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… workflow for obtaining terrain from NASA Reverb using the open source (free) GIS tool called QGIS and then into InfraWorks: Open embedded content: www.youtube.com Credit to Nick Falvey, via Civil FX…
Paolo has posted an interesting bit of code that basically allows you to pick a floor element, and it will add points to a topography so that the topo follows the “points” on the Floor. A very interes…
The release of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Global Digital Elevation Model Version 2 (GDEM V2) was announced on October 17, 2011. This data can be downloa…
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…
I’ve always felt that the Floor tool in Scan to BIM is a bit lacking – rather than analysing and deforming an existing Floor element, I want it to work like the Topo tool (just select a bunch of point…
I recently posted about converting Topography to massing forms using a somewhat “manual”, yet lofted and smooth, method:Convert Revit Topography into Massing Forms Harry provides some code to do a sim…
Have you ever wanted to rationalise your Topography as a Massing form, perhaps so you could use Divided Surface and panelization tools on the topo? Here is one method: Make a Site family with a vertic…
Download the add-in:Topo From Lines | Autodesk Revit | Autodesk Exchange Apps Update it:Use this files in this ZIP to replace the files installed in C:ProgramDataAutodeskApplicationPluginsTopo From Li…
Yeah, Revit topo tools aren’t that great. Why don’t we try exporting to a sculpting tool like meshmixer, and see if we can make it work? Let’s start with a simple Revit toposurface. Export to Max by u…
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…