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Using Civil3D to increase your Topography resolution in Revit
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…
Quickly add Google Earth site context to your Revit model – using free CADtoEarth
One of the greatest things about Revit, and BIM in general, is that we usually design ‘in context’ – that is, with as much site information as we can get our hands on… Vasari has that handy little opt…
Topography edge visibility workaround
In Revit, you can’t use the linework tool on the physical edge of a Toposurface. Worse still, the edge has no distinct category of its own. The only viable workaround that lets you consistently hide t…
Plan regions have no effect on Topography – workarounds
There are at least two ways to work around the fact that a Plan Region will not affect the viewing of Topography elements. From the AUGI forums (2007):Alex PageWhat about having a ‘cut-plane’ of the v…
Adding Tertiary and additional contour lines to Revit topography
Simply: Make the necessary subcategories of Topography in Object Styles Apply them in the ‘Site Settings’ dialog (little arrow next to ‘Model Site’ on the Massing & Site panel) Video example below:…
From Photos to Point Clouds to Excel to Revit Topo
BIM blog.ca describes how to go through the following work method (step by step): Photos 123D Catch .LAS (point) file XYZ CSV file Revit topography Now you can (kinda) do your site survey using your c…
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’ …
How to Set Altitude in Google Earth
Navigate to where you want to be and get as close as you can. Start to create a placemark by clicking the pushpin icon. In the placemark’s dialog box, click the “View” tab. Change the number in the “R…
Revit and points in DWG files when making topography
Sometimes you may have trouble using a DWG that contains ‘points’ to create a Revit topography. There are two main ways around this. METHOD 1 Here is a LISP routine to export points in a DWG to CSV fi…