You absolute LEGEND you!! I was completely stuck, but learning that railings stick to topography... Literally redeemed my will to live :) Thank you so much man
Haven't watched one of your videos in years glad you're doing well. I'm in my second year of college and can't wait to binge your videos. They were always so helpful. I thpught for sure you also had a video about how to make money using revit like making families etc. However I couldn't find the video. Wrong channel I suppose. Keep up the good work
Just getting back into Revit after wandering the wilderness of BIM Management. Really loving it too. Great Video & really encouraging to push on - thanks for the hard work J
The presentation was helpful, I have finally finished a video from your channel. But I do have a series of questions 1. What if the topography map shows elevation points instead of contours? 2. If my site is relatively flat (even the access roads are flat), how do I project it into the generated site? 3. Following that question, how do I make it look like the property line and the roads weren't stamped into the generated site? You know, to show highest and lowest elevation points 4. If the units of the elevation points are in meters, and the property lines and roads are in millimeters, which unit must take control of the development? I hope that these issues would be noticed. Thank you!
Jeff I love watching your videos! They're really down to the point and detailed. I want to master Revit and Dynamo for Landscape Sites and Infrastructure coordination. If there's stuff you advise me to practice with that would be great!
Just keep watching my videos ;) haha! Cheers!! Some advice I will give you is a find a current problem you want to solve using dynamo and Revit and force yourself to learn how to solve it with those tools…
what`s the most frustrating thing about topography is I still haven`t figured out yet or mastered the art of using points to determine slopes and altitudes on my topographic maps.
Hi, thank you a lot for all videos, I find that it is fantastic source of information it improved a lot my Revit skills. I would be very interesting to see the video that you mentioned in chapter "Phasing and Graded region" (I can't find the link to it) as I need frequently to calculate the quantities of cut/fill of earthwork. Thanks
1- Sir can you please explain what is the difference between survey point and project base point & when we start a project how to set project base point and survey point? 2- What is the difference between center to center , origin to origin & by shared codinate?
I wish Revit would allow you to export topography to and STL for 3D printing. I've read your article on it using dynamo and other programmes but it's quite a complex workaround :(
I actually don't remember and don't have this file handy... However, I will tell you my graphic settings will also tweak the RGB a bit based on the "70, 50, 20" rule I talk about in this episode: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7_GdDnt4L5s.html
Thanks for the video Jeff. I couldn't manage to create the dashed line baluster family, I did exactly as you did but no gaps between extrusions appear on the model.
Hi, thank you for your channel I think it's very helpful and tastefully done. I was wondering how can I load railing families because I can't find that option in revit and I noticed that you have many different railing types (stone wall, earth extension etc.). Or did you download railings as a revit file somewhere online?
Hello jeff!!..New on your channel..great job!!.. Have a problem with View range..the surveyor gave me a site CAD drawing..when importing to revit it says the CAD drawing i want to import expands to 15Km and when setting the top view range the Max is 9Km. After importing i can't see the Topo surface!!..Do you've any soln for it please?!
Depends on the site... Some towns and cities have GIS Maps with contours.. some projects have civil engineers and CAD files, its a mixed bag all depending on your site and project.
Jeff, is there any alternative that you know of for Site designer extension. 2021 and beyond doesn't support that tool anymore what is a real pain in the behind
Howdy, im working on a school project and im trying to find the elevation topo data for the Galveston Tx. Beach Area. Where can i get the data so i can load it in Revvit?
@@mikiethiel An image file.... Check out the video above and my other videos on scaling and making contours. Unless you have a survey you most likely wont get a file to automatically make topography in Revit from the public domain.
I wish you showed how to import the map that you use to trace, because every time I do that, I can't see the points I'm adding. They must be appearing UNDER the graphic or something.
Greg, either flip your view to "Wireframe" (WF on your Keyboard) or make sure the cut plane/view range of your site plan is set to see the points at the elevations you are drawing them in...
@@TheRevitKid WF didn't work. After 30 solid minutes of clicking around everywhere, I'm just too much of a newbie. Please make a little tutorial in your next live clip? Thank you!
I think I found it on the Dynamo Forum... Can't find the post right now... But here it is: import clr clr.AddReference('RevitAPI') from Autodesk.Revit.DB import * clr.AddReference('RevitServices') import RevitServices from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument railings = UnwrapElement(IN[0]) newHost = UnwrapElement(IN[1]) TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc) # in a for loop, i represents and instance of the object in a list. # so it can be looked at as "for each railing (i) in railings" for i in railings: i.HostId = newHost.Id # we get the id in here for simplicity TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone() OUT = railings
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@@TheRevitKid I found it here before, thanks forum.dynamobim.com/t/pick-new-host-from-the-api/13000/3
The auto clicker method - Why? Why not just import the terrain image into something like inkscape, than convert the image to be a set of pdf linework and reimport into revit?
I've never tried that method but I would imagine it also has it's issues... For example, creating the clean linework is one thing. But then setting each line to the proper elevation, etc... is another... I'm always willing to try something new!
@@TheRevitKid Cool! Yea doing something like that and using a sketchup pro plugin can make a terrain ready to go in minutes. I use sketchup pro exclusively. I Can do a set of consturction documents with the latest sketchup pro and layout 2021 in 2-4 days full set of cds for a single family residential passive home. When I watch these revit tutorials, I just don't get it, there is too much complexity where sketchup can produce the same results in half the time. I speak from experience. Revit seems like complexity layered over complexity and for what? 2-4 days for a fully detailed complex set of drawing documents .... I just don't know why Revit makes things so difficult, what's the actual benefit when I can do the same thing and faster in sketchup and layout in 2-4 days for single family home projects?
Revit is weird with topo. How about digitizing the pdf, throw it in AutoCad and clean it. Then you import .dwg, click one and done. Topo good. I wish they would make a soft brush tool like Maya paint or 3ds max to smooth the points. You could also ask the civil folks for an Autocad or a civil 3D file using site link. Ps. Why do y’all Millianials love to use bizarre plugins and add ons, creating crazy messes for the Bim Manager to clean?
Not sure if digitizing the PDF by redrawing the contours in CAD, setting their elevations, then importing to Revit and making a topo is much faster than importing the PDF to Revit, scaling, and using autclicker...?? Maybe it is... but, not sure.
So many indirect methods! Like a detective investigating secrets within icons...To use the railing icon to create so many other staff! Shame to Revit Programmers! Instead of fancy unimportant updates every year Revit guys should develop separate icons to create Roads, Paths, curbs, roof flashing, and many more...
