It’s the most common workflow, and it’s how you are usually taught to model. Most Revit users use the Toposurface tool to create the site. 1- On Simple Sites, Use Floors Instead of Toposurface We will cover planting and parking in an upcoming guide. This post mostly focuses on topography, roads and curbs. This guide wouldn’t be possible without Lauren Schmidt of team Parallax, who shared her knowledge in a recent episode of Revit Pure Live.Īlso, thanks to the team at Arch-Intelligence, who created the great Environment plugin which is covered in this post. The good news is that the community took things into their own hands, found great workflows, and build amazing plugins to solve issues and pain points with the landscaping features. Landscape architects and users modelling complex sites often get frustrated by what is offered by Autodesk. I guess what we are ultimately looking for is a program that is sutiable for our line of work and can easily be viewed and printed for presentation without producing many different files.Let’s be clear: Revit’s default landscape and site tools are not very good. After the presentationwe go back to our 2D plans.

I am a selftaught sketchup person who is not the quickest with the program and still has a lot to learn. What bothers me is every time something changes we would have to start all over again since the 'pretty' drawings are out of date now. Producing an extra file or more just for presentation.

We use either Photoshop or sketchup (the free version) to make the design options 'Pretty'. Is there an equivalent for Landscaping design?Īs of now we draw up a couple different options for our client to look at. However it seems that its specifically for Building design. I really like the Realtime drawing and the idea of having a 'Intelligent' Drawing. I have been asked to look into Revit since a lot of people we work with are using it. We are mostly designing Tracks and Sportsfields.

We are a landscape architecture and engineer office and are using AutoCAD 2010.

Using revit for landscape architecture