Revit Site Modelling: Roads, Kerbs and more!

[@Tony-oc7yf]

I needed this kind of tutorial: fast, professional, full of steps. Love it even when I cannot follow at first. Thank you!

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Youre welcome!

[@SPOONKRUST]

Your vids are superb and a massive help. I like how your processes and approaches are clear and effective for professional practice, which imo is rare on KZbin...

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Thanks Connor, glad you like the presentation approach and content - I try to keep my teaching professionally grounded, it was a big motivator behind the channel originally and continues to be!

[@clasohlson4333]

Great tutorial, thanks Gavin, could you advise how to draw model lines on a surface, for example: I'd like to add a single line on each steps of a stadium auditorium ( so that later I will add seating base on those lines)

[@AussieBIMGuru]

You would need to pick the face of the element as your workplane before drawing the model line, or edit the line's workplane after it has been drawn at a different plane.

[@clasohlson4333]

@@AussieBIMGuru Thanks a lot, Gavin, have a nice day!

[@scottblosser3503]

I have made an almost identical script to your road to topo extrapolation except I gather interior points. Is there a reason you have chosen not to gather interior points for higher precision of the road surface contours? I have found it helpful on large parking areas and sloped drives.

[@AussieBIMGuru]

I have made such scripts since this video, but I'll put not having it here down to being more of a dynamo beginner at the time I made this!

[@scottblosser3503]

@@AussieBIMGuru Fair enough. I did see the video was from a few years ago. Some of your other scripts are more in depth so I was curious if you had a deeper reason. Keep up the good work!

[@klasrobertsson3943]

hello! where can I find the Booleans.anytrue node? Or is there an alternative for it? Thanks in advance!/Klas

[@AussieBIMGuru]

This should be in the clockwork package. Alternatively you could count true and check if its more than 0.

[@mattcollins6605]

Great Video, Is there a way to skip using sub regions? I always find them a nightmare to work with.

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Draping floors onto the topo using Dynamo is another altsrnarivs.

[@AMSID2024]

Another thing, how I get Spring Collector node?

[@AussieBIMGuru]

You need to install the springs package from package manager.

[@immi85]

Instead of in place model sweep, why don't you use structure framing?

[@AussieBIMGuru]

That's another option, although mitreing on angled corners might be problematic. These days I tend to use roof for paving and fascias for kerbs.

[@immi85]

@@AussieBIMGuru is site designer add-in better option ?

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@@immi85 i haven't used it too much but it looked to be able to help a bit. Ultimately I think Infraworks may become a better option, and ideally architects wouldn't have to model site context if more civil engineers used 3D models.

[@ajendrakumar6419]

Hi Sir after watching this video I'm working another topographic plan but when i come to Dynamo and i open the file why it not take the file and give an Error massage , help me Sir

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Which node is generating an error, and what does the error say?

[@ajendrakumar6419]

@@AussieBIMGuru the error is " Error opening Corrupted File"

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@@ajendrakumar6419 it sounds like the file will not be recoverable. Usually a corrupt file is caused by loss of data. Depending on your Dynamo versions too you might be in a version too low to open the script.

[@ajendrakumar6419]

@@AussieBIMGuru Sir I'M using Revit 2020, Can i send you my data? With Regard If possible Plz check that and give me solution or Damo on my file

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@@ajendrakumar6419 you can, but if the files are corrupt there probably isn't anything I will be able to do.

[@xjphang]

Great content as always ! I have a problem that I have tried for few days but no luck so far. I am trying to put equal points on a topography by dynamo (on X and Y axis, Z points to lie on the topo's level) , so that I can put family on those points. However, I am stucked at the stage where I extracted polysurface. I cant turn the polysurface into single surface where I can use point on Parameter to insert the point (even if I use this method, I can only use UV on surface instead of XY). What would you suggest me to solve it? And I think topography with dynamo is an interesting and useful topic for your viewers, especially beginner. Thanks heaps mate !

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Thanks, I agree, could be a useful topic! To solve your problem, place a set of points in the XY plane, convert your topo to a surface or polysurface, extend vertical lines from the points as curves, then intersect them with the surface. This should give you the points by Z at these preset XY locations.

[@xjphang]

@@AussieBIMGuru Yeah right ! Why haven't I thought of that ! I really need to encourage myself to think out of the box. Just another question, is there anyway that i can convert multiple surfaces (polysurface) to single surface? Thanks !

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@@xjphang yes i believe the explode node might work. There should also be a 'polysurface to surfaces' node I think. Still don't have dynamo so can't confirm unfortunately!

[@xjphang]

@@AussieBIMGuru Great ! Will give it a go ! Thanks for your time and stay awesome !!!

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@@xjphang you're welcome, likewise!

[@erenfbdamir]

Hey Thanks for video! Its very helpfull .But ı have question :how could he look like that at the end?How's the Diagram effect?I tried to change the graphics settings, but I couldn't get the same graphics and same looking :(

[@AussieBIMGuru]

The main things that helped are; - shaded mode - ambient shadows - lighting 50/30/15 - turn off outlines (only possible in shaded or realistic mode)

[@erenfbdamir]

@@AussieBIMGuru Thanks a lot. I got it

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@@erenfbdamir great work! I actually use these settings in my professional work so hope you find them useful in other scenarios also :)

[@georgealhassan9446]

nice video

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Thanks George!

[@AMSID2024]

Hi Aussie, I am new in Dynamo stuffs, can you send me the file or something for see the entire code?... Thanks

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Unfortunately I no longer have this code, lost is in some file corruptions on my harddrive. I have a lot of other videos for dynamo in detail, as well as all the scripts that survived on my github.

[@AMSID2024]

can you share the dynamo file, please?

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Hi as I said I no longer have it, lost it during corruption.

[@jedsanford7879]

Me, and american, "wt* is a Kerb?"

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Haha yes language is a fun thing.

[@ICommentXYZ]

Too advanced

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Try linkedin learning or balkan architect maybe.