How to create Toposolids in Revit 2024 using CAD files - Revit 2024 tutorial

hello welcome back to simple or difficult in this video we are going to be looking at how you can import DWG file that is an autocard file into RIT and then use it to create a topography all right so in the previous video we talked about how you can import autocard files into Revit for the purpose of using it as a guide to create a 3D geometry for your line works that you did in autocard okay so in this video we are going to be doing something similar but this time around we're going to be doing it with a civil engineering drawing so now what we need to do as we did before is go to the insert Tab and then we're going to be using Link card instead of import card okay in the previous video I already told you the reason why Link Card is the best option so for sure I'm going to use Link Card okay so I'm going to go to DWG files okay I'm going to attach this file in the description for you you can download it from there now when you open this dialogue I need you to select this is the site plan topography that's one we are going to be using okay I need to select don't double click it if you double click it it is going to you're going to deprive yourself the opportunity to make some changes all right let's look at the settings that we need to change for the positioning we're going to leave it as it is okay we're going to leave it as um origin to internal origin for the color I don't really care about the color so maybe this time around we're going to leave it as invert all right current view only we are going to leave it unchecked okay in the previous video I emphasized the importance of current view only but it is not the same in this in this instance okay when you check on this current view only it is going to take this information in this s plan topography it is going to squish it into 2D information because this file is not a 2d file is it is actually a 3D file let me show you this is the autocard file so if I come over here and I click on it like so you're going to see it that this file actually has a depth as you can see so when you turn on the when you turn on this current view only it is going to squish it into one level so we don't see it in any other level okay but we don't need that when you do that it is going to spoil your topography site plan that was given to you by civil engineering okay so we're going to leave it unchecked so the next thing I want us to talk about is the correct lines that are slightly of axis okay we are going to uncheck this too in the previous video we left it checked because let's say the designer that was designing the floor plan in Auto card you know thought the line that he drew was 90° but it's actually 89999 okay Revit is going to adjust it for you and make it actually 90° but in this case maybe the civil engineering actually left that line 89.9 on purpose so we are not going to correct any line that are slightly off axis because that axis that it is might be the axis that is supposed to be okay so we are going to uncheck it so the import unit is another thing I want us to actually look at okay Revit is a very smart tool it is going to dictate okay the unit that this file was worked on in Auto card okay so you don't actually need to do anything but sometimes it doesn't work sometimes when you leave it like this things might actually come out a little bit smaller or a little bit bigger than is supposed to be then you now have to go and verify the the unit that it was done in and actually select that unit and then import it but for this case I'm going to leave it as autod detect and then that's all for the settings I'm just going to hit [Music] open okay okay so I'm going to expand it so that we can see the extent of this site as you can see this is the site topography that we just imported all right let's go to the 3D View and take a look let me turn on this thing so I can see where the center is yeah so we need to go close to this place [Music] okay to make here the center so you can see that is actually okay is actually it has the height that it is supposed to have in here the way it is in the autocard file okay so that's how you import your side topography to use it for gener but this is not all you know we are going to use this now and we're going to generate a topo solid a topography with which we are not going to do the work we're supposed to do in Revit so how do we do that now I need you to do something for me I need you to head back to the autocard file and I want you to select it then when you select it I need to take note of the layer okay you can see that the layer that is containing this line is aob Contour okay if we select another one the same aob Contour if we select all of them that same Oobi Contour so the our side Topography is located inside The Oobi Contour layer so let's head back to Revit you're going to see the reason why we did that right now so we're going to go to the m and site Tab and then we're going to see Topo solid now Topo solid is a tool that used to create your site okay your too your topography and all that so if I just click on it now I can use this and create a topography as you can see so after creating this Topo solid and I say okay this too flat I want to add height to it I can do that by modifying Sub sub element and then I'll add points okay let's say I add three points I'll just select this point and add a height to it let's say I add 16 M to it you can see we are having height over here can say to add 10 M over this side and then here I can add [Music] 25 here I can add 25 M okay all right so let me just come out of this now as you can see we have a topography and you can see RIT added these lines for us automatically okay so now but when you want to now do the same for here you don't want to now come and start adding the points manually like you come over here you be adding point to follow this and then maintaining the height no you don't do that that is going to take you tremendous amount of time it's going to be very stressful so what I'm going to show you now is a very easy way that you can just do this thing and it will generate the lines for you based on the information provided by the civil engineering drawing so how do you do that instead of just coming over here and clicking on this thing you click on the drop down and then click on this create from import all right so when you do that you obviously you know that what we imported is a card file so I'm going to select card file okay create from card so I'm just going to come over here and I'm going to click on this now I remember when I asked I ask you to go back to Auto card and check the layers that is containing this our topography line that is where we're going to use it and you remember that the only layer that was containing all the topography line was oob Contour so I'm going to uncheck it and I'm going to invert what that does for you is it is going to uncheck others that were checked and then check the ones that were that was not checked okay so I'm now going to hit okay now as you can see let me put this in a shaded View as you can see our site has been created the topography and everything is already there showing so I can just come over [Music] here select this and hide it that a topography file that I used to do this and hide it and as you can see we have our topography showing in 3D not just line now you can see the areas we have depression you can see the depressions showing okay let me go over here and then set it to find and then go inside here remove the show edges and put smooth anti in okay you can see we have a site that is we just generated without having to add any points now if i s select this thing now and I go to edit you will see all the points that this thing added for you automatically if you have to add all these points manually it is going to take you tremendous amount of time so that's how you use your DWG file which you imported inside Revit to create a topography geometry inside your rivit project all right that's it for this video I hope you enjoyed it if you did please give me a like and if you're new to this channel consider subscribing not only subscribing ring the notification Bell so you don't miss any of our future tutorial thank you very much for watching this video I'll see you in the next one

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Length: 8min 53sec (533 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 27 2024