Create/Locate Topography with CAD File | Revit

[@Mahdi6789]

I enjoyed it very much And I laughed a lot And for the one who said: I didn't see this video from minute 1 onwards! In Iran, we have a proverb for this situation: The bowl is hotter than ash! I think that AutoCAD developers themselves, if they see this video, they will not only not be sad, but they will also enjoy it. Anyway, I learned and enjoyed. Thank you so much. 🙏

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Very good to hear and so glad you enjoy it and got a laugh! Much love from Colorado!

[@midpackart]

Hey Man, great video, just subbed and liked.. very helpful, when you used the edited CAD file after the error, did you explode it on CAD before import or explode it on Revit, save as .dwg to file and import again for the top point?

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Hey thanks so much! I exploded in CAD then saved as and loaded/reloaded into Revit. The most luck I have had is doing that. I REALLY try to avoid exploding in Revit.

[@najva_n]

thank you for the video. I didn't follow some parts. When I move down the topography (the Revit model), the contour lines shift. I mean ,on plan view, they don't match the cad lines anymore, while before moving down they did. how can I fix this? Before making topo surface should I move cad file vertically and then make the topo? in this case the elevation of the points change (they are based on IO ) and I have no control on modifying them.

[@najva_n]

How can I move my 0-00 level instead of changing the location of the topo? In the video because you had no buildings in the model, you simply changed the numbers and didn't get any errors. but what can I do after modeling the buildering and having lots of levels. Besides "relocate" works on Spot elevations not the elevation of points in the Topo Edit..(they are based on IO.. )

[@maxconstructioncarpentry1318]

Dude, usually your videos are great. There is waaaaaay too much extra talking in this one for someone who is just trying to learn bringing together a Civil 3D topography together with a Revit structure. And comments about "this is hard", "this sucks", yada yada yada is discouraging before even getting started. I've seen your other super technical videos where you go way deeper into things than others. So, I know you can do another version of this that rocks.

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

I appreciate the criticism and will take it to heart!

[@imedhamdi862]

Thank you so much 🥰🥰

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

You’re so welcome!

[@keithprossickartist]

yep, CAD files. 🙂

[@hizacaine]

Your frustration is evident and there is a reason for it, Autodesk has failed to provide a good tool. Revit topography does not play nice with Autodesk's other tools or with the conventions of the other users and cad generators, ie surveyors, cartographers and civil engineers. Revit topography fails because it cannot model the simple reality of actual topography with vertical, horizontal or underground features. Revit topography fails because the experience as a whole just sucks, starting with the way it magically creates ridges, slopes, angles, extra lines and other unwanted features. My big problem is the cad file preparation, because I don't have cad. How do you remove an origin that came from a surveyors benchmark that is many dozens of miles away from the site and throwing the "extents is greater than 20 miles" error if you don't have cad? It's in my project but the cad block is so small that I can't see either my model or the import because I have to zoom out 20 miles. C'mon Autodesk, how hard would it be to eliminate the CAD file origin in the import dialogue? On a brighter note, I almost always end up moving the Revit survey point and levels up to the actual height, even if it thrashes the already modeled and annotated. Since I always have to mess around with the toposurface to get it correct, I need the dots to be at the correct elevation. I've found that placing a point labeled 630' is a lot less complicated than placing a point labeled zero or something and then doing some mental gymnastics to add or subtract and get to the correct height. The best part is phasing, and demoing a building pad, that is always a recipe for disaster. I've got more than one file with an existing phase basement that is now filled and cannot be unfilled. Smile you are paying $2,500 a year for the privilege of using a tool that blows.

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

You are completely correct on where topography fails! The origin issue is always a mess. The best I can say is you can copy what you need into a new CAD file and save it out close to the new origin. Or you could always place it manually in Revit. I agree with using the actual elevations. Haha I feel your pain, I know the price tag is quite the punch.

[@danielsotelo5281]

The best way to handle the issue at buildings is to ask your civil engineer or surveyor to place a hide boundary at all flat buildings on their surface before exporting to CAD

[@robenhitchcock325]

My question is why? Why is Autodesk sucking so much at topography? Billion dollar company... Topography sucks....uhm ? but hey ! atleast everything else is Nice :)

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Haha, I cant help but agree with you, Roben! Maybe one day things will improve.

[@4mcpete]

Stopped watching at 1 min. 10 seconds because I don’t need to hear how you feel about cad files. Peace

[@ArchitectureVanguard]

Ok, later! Sorry you didn't find this helpful. But is not wanting to hear someone's opinion enough to not see enough of the video to learn what it all about?

[@4mcpete]

@@ArchitectureVanguard Yes it Is LATER!

[@danielsotelo5281]

Your videos are helpful. CAD and revit topography does not work great. To get the two programs to work properly you need an additional 300/month software cloud package. And that package still has a bug where it doesn’t know the difference between survey feet and regular feet so everything is slightly off when using it on an actual coordinate system if you are in imperial units

[@vasiliibogdan1291]

Cut talks - this video could have been 3 times shorter. 4 minutes for placing the file on a sheet - you kidding? Can't even handle this at 1.5 speed.. next