REVIT TIP - for toposolids, you can create a void in the toposolid and then add a "floor" at the void bottom to lower the floor into the toposolid (eg. adding a driveway into the toposolid).
Congrats on 100 episodes !!!! I'm loving this channel and everything I'm learning. Can you make a video or short about linking Revit 2024 and Twinmotion ??
I design custom homes on steep mountain lots. Trying to figure out how to handle cut and fill on a basement where the uphill side is cut into the slope and the downhill side is fill with a subwall. THe old building pad tool acccomplish both and was great. The excavate tool in 2025 helps with the cut part, but trying to figure out a fill solution.
I am a nood. I recently downloaded Twinmotion 2022.2.3. I went through the same steps as you have shown. I can see my Revit file listed ouder scene graph but I'm still not able to see the actual drawing. Where do I get it wrong?.
Thank you Jeff. Awesome stuff! I was wondering if you can synchronize or inherit your Revit scene angle into Twinmotion. It is a bit time consuming to move in Twinmotion trying to match the Revit view angle.
Twinmotion livesync work nice but need 8G Vram to enable path tracer. a laptop with such VRAM is out of range. Twinmotion says that we can enable this with 6 G vram but it is not true.
@@TheRevitKid I’m used to the CAD colours and placing all the layers in a uniform black or grayscale doesn’t give me an overview. It’s just black lines. I think it’s all about personal preference
Jeff, Been subscribed for a while now. Watched a lot of you videos - especially the after dark series. Good tech insider info there! I'm at my wits end on Revit Groups. Do you have a SERIOUSLY in-depth video on them? As an ACA user for ~30 years (since AutoCAD DOS), I'm about to throw this Revit crap right out the window... No one is capable of working efficiently in Revit, and our firm can't find anyone to hire that can actually perform. It's downright horrible.... Maybe AI can start generating permit and construction drawings??????? Apologies for the rant...
I have a few episodes of the livestream about groups: ua-cam.com/users/liveyKW1tdyZ8lk?feature=share and ua-cam.com/users/liveo12Fn8W5TzA?feature=share
When the founder of revit make toposurface not toposolid, they absolutely knows what different between surface and solid. Why autodesk dont understand this...
This dumb toposolid tool is a massive, massive step backward in functionality for any project that needs site grading. Can't snap points to geometry, can't copy points around, can't even see the dang contour lines during editing. I fail to see the point of crippling this tool so much. It's going to take us much, much longer to accurately grade the site on our projects going forward, assuming we actually make the move to 2024. If they would just make the contour lines visible during editing, and allow copying and snapping points, the whole thing would be so much better. Also a proper editing environment would help, as opposed to one errant Escape press exiting out of the whole edit process
Autodesk's mission has always been how to make easy things complicated and complicated things to super complex and confusing! All the skills we developed over the years using the Building Pad, subregion, etc. are gone and we have to relearn these new Massig and site craps again! So annoying and frustrating!
While I agree on some aspects of your claim… the topo surface tool needed an update… and, to be fair, nothing in the topo solid tool is really new to Revit. Just a new way to use old tools like voids, floors, etc …
Pads sucked dick, they were crap from the very beginning and they not got any better. Good riddance. Literally everything about pads required a workaround so whatever workaround the new toposolids require is OK with me even though as an LT user, that doesn't have access to model-in-place, I know there will be an extra workaround on top of the usual single level of hell. Hopefully phases will work with the voids.
REVIT TIP - for toposolids, you can create a void in the toposolid and then add a "floor" at the void bottom to lower the floor into the toposolid (eg. adding a driveway into the toposolid).
Just another way to take advantage of the new tool! Thanks for sharing!
Congrats on 100 episodes !!!! I'm loving this channel and everything I'm learning. Can you make a video or short about linking Revit 2024 and Twinmotion ??
I showed it at the end of this episode... but I will be diving in more in the future.
I design custom homes on steep mountain lots. Trying to figure out how to handle cut and fill on a basement where the uphill side is cut into the slope and the downhill side is fill with a subwall. THe old building pad tool acccomplish both and was great. The excavate tool in 2025 helps with the cut part, but trying to figure out a fill solution.
I am a nood. I recently downloaded Twinmotion 2022.2.3. I went through the same steps as you have shown. I can see my Revit file listed ouder scene graph but I'm still not able to see the actual drawing. Where do I get it wrong?.
Try zooming out … your building may be way out in space somewhere p
do you know how to smooth the sharp contours of the toposolid
The only way to do that is to make lots of point and as tight together as you can. More contours = smoother surface.
Started hearing 'topo-salad' after min 41 😆 Now I giggle every time I hear it, for the rest of the episode
Haha!!
Thank you
you are my hero!
Woohoo!!
Thank you Jeff. Awesome stuff! I was wondering if you can synchronize or inherit your Revit scene angle into Twinmotion. It is a bit time consuming to move in Twinmotion trying to match the Revit view angle.
As far as I know there is no camera/view syncing right now... I have never found that to be a need, personally.... Even with Enscape....
It is nice if you have to update a render that you edited in photoshop and just want to replace the base image.
Bob Odenkirk is making video about Revit in his free time. What a Great Actor!
🤔 … nothing against the man but I don’t really see the similarities…?
@@TheRevitKid Shape of your face and also eyes are same. You are bearded him or he is beardless you. :)
Congrats for 💯 Episode. Please use light mode while recording session because in the dark mode text are not easy to see.
Thanks for the kind words! I will not turn off dark mode from now until eternity!! 😁
i always make my topo with floors and not topo... so wonder if this new topo will change my workflow
slab edges for floors is a great tool for topo made with floors
I think it will!
Hi. Are you fan of the new site tools AKA advanced floor slab. I've heard its really slow compared to the toposurface.
Did you watch the video? Lol … I literally give my opinions on them and show the benefits….
@@TheRevitKid What is your opinion now after using it for some time?
@@JohnHelge-h8j great! They have some cons but many more pros!
@@TheRevitKidCan you select a whole bunch of points at once? Can you use align on points?
Twinmotion livesync work nice but need 8G Vram to enable path tracer. a laptop with such VRAM is out of range. Twinmotion says that we can enable this with 6 G vram but it is not true.
I have successfully enabled it with a 4GB card… but, honestly, I wouldn’t recommend it haha
@@TheRevitKid Strange ! how u did this ?! even with DX 12 it didnt work did u install a new nvidia driver ?
@@ghazinspace not sure but it works… just forced DX12 … you should always be up to date on nvidia drivers… never let those be old
@@TheRevitKid hi are u under windows 11? if not can u tell me about the release of windows 10 22h2 or ?
The intro sounds like a 90s porn. Love it. No reason we cant learn amd have fun at the same time.
haha I always thought it went well with the "After Dark" theme 😜
hhhhhh
How could you click so fast?
Auto-clicker!!! Check out around 8 minutes into this one: ua-cam.com/users/liveKw3MBFRInAQ?feature=share
people who load in autoCAD files with a kazilion colors use a black canvas to copy all the walls in your project
Yes… and those people are maniacs!
Haha, maybe but I can’t see yellow colors on a white canvas
@@_SG_86 You don't have to maintain the ugly CAD layer colors when you import.
@@TheRevitKid I’m used to the CAD colours and placing all the layers in a uniform black or grayscale doesn’t give me an overview. It’s just black lines. I think it’s all about personal preference
Jeff, Been subscribed for a while now. Watched a lot of you videos - especially the after dark series. Good tech insider info there!
I'm at my wits end on Revit Groups. Do you have a SERIOUSLY in-depth video on them? As an ACA user for ~30 years (since AutoCAD DOS), I'm about to throw this Revit crap right out the window... No one is capable of working efficiently in Revit, and our firm can't find anyone to hire that can actually perform. It's downright horrible.... Maybe AI can start generating permit and construction drawings???????
Apologies for the rant...
I have a few episodes of the livestream about groups: ua-cam.com/users/liveyKW1tdyZ8lk?feature=share and ua-cam.com/users/liveo12Fn8W5TzA?feature=share
When the founder of revit make toposurface not toposolid, they absolutely knows what different between surface and solid. Why autodesk dont understand this...
hello sir how are you doing please i need your help
that Autoclicker ... that thing has saved my sanity a number of times. Dirty hack - but aren't the best always?
Been using that silly little tool for years!!!!
Good explanation. But autodesk toposolid looks like a crumpled paper, on screen and printed with that triangulation. It doesn't' looks natural.
This dumb toposolid tool is a massive, massive step backward in functionality for any project that needs site grading. Can't snap points to geometry, can't copy points around, can't even see the dang contour lines during editing. I fail to see the point of crippling this tool so much. It's going to take us much, much longer to accurately grade the site on our projects going forward, assuming we actually make the move to 2024.
If they would just make the contour lines visible during editing, and allow copying and snapping points, the whole thing would be so much better. Also a proper editing environment would help, as opposed to one errant Escape press exiting out of the whole edit process
Autodesk's mission has always been how to make easy things complicated and complicated things to super complex and confusing! All the skills we developed over the years using the Building Pad, subregion, etc. are gone and we have to relearn these new Massig and site craps again! So annoying and frustrating!
While I agree on some aspects of your claim… the topo surface tool needed an update… and, to be fair, nothing in the topo solid tool is really new to Revit. Just a new way to use old tools like voids, floors, etc …
Pads sucked dick, they were crap from the very beginning and they not got any better. Good riddance. Literally everything about pads required a workaround so whatever workaround the new toposolids require is OK with me even though as an LT user, that doesn't have access to model-in-place, I know there will be an extra workaround on top of the usual single level of hell. Hopefully phases will work with the voids.
@rashy1000