If you want to master Toposolids in Revit, we offer a full Site Design and Coordination Course for Revit. You can find it here: balkanarchitect.com/p/site-design-coordination-in-revit
For small projects I agree, but for big projects as 10,000 plus square meters making a floor for a terrain, I believe is too much load por a model, but tell me your experience I would love to know more!
Great tips. I recently opened the new sample project for Revit, and it has a nice, simple approach on how to design roads: they are nothing but a subdvision, shorter than other subdvisions (such as grass and sidewalks). 😉
Great tutorial. @Balkan Architect, the option about CUT/FILL is OLD, more than 17 years ;). Congratulations for your patience and quality of the content. Cheers from Brazil.
@6:00 your import looks like it adhered to the contour lines exactly, but when I imported mine, it did not. I've gone down so far as importing 0.1m and 0.25m contour lines, but it STILL does not adhere to the contour lines. Is it possible to refine the mesh/decrease the size of the mesh faces in Revit? I've tried every different way of exporting the file with different contours/points/grids I can think of and nothing works very well.
Modeling Landscapes is absolutel the hadest among all the disciplines. Neither architecture, nor MEP or ther engineering divisions have and need such complicated modeling. Landscape is absolutely the most challenging and it is great to see that more and more features and being added to make things easier.
Yet another half-finished "upgrade" by Autodesk. At least the have advanced part of the tool beyond 1997... Thanks for your detailed overview, Balkan Architect.
As always... Extreemely clear and concise. I would like you to know that when I did download the newest revit and saw this changes... I inmediately thought of you. Probably I´d be taking the site course in a couple weeks as well. Thanks you !
thx for the turorial. I would be more curious in Revit 2023 how would you go about making a topo for an existing house on a very sloped terrain and also phase that terrain for the proposed works. The real problem is when a house is carving into the surface and trying to phase that out. Maybe you find some time to talk about it. Thank you.
subregion couldnt even do positive offsets.. only stay on the surface.. now it would be nice if it could subtract sure. but isnt worse. Now I thought the new landscape would be faster - but moving a single point of height takes 1 minute on a good pc with a recenably large landscape - ouch!
Does this mean in order to create the surface bed for existing houses when working with renovations - instead of building pads, now we need to create voids on the toposolid? The site is for these purposes not a steeply sloped site. If adding a new building on the exact site we need to grade it and show where we are demolishing and keeping existing site?
What is the best way to deal with phasing and toposolids? If you use the graded region tool you then all the toposolids get phased as demolished so there isn't really a good way to show demolition plans when you're demolishing part of a sidewalk for example. Thoughts?
When I use Graded Region, I have two toposolids, one in existing phase and one that has some mass removed in new phase. Revit only gives a number in the "filled" tab, but shouldn't this be in the "cut" tab?
17:48 this subdivision can be turned on a estructural element and apply to it some rebars? It can be perfect to modeling a nailing soil, (a type of soil stabilization.)
when i set the visual style to realistic it just showed the usual grey material. Did you customize the materials to show grass & earth textures/colors?
The voids are all good and well, but when the site is sloping more drastically, it does not fill the gap which exists above the surface but under the floor. So far I am not having much luck with the new Toposolids...
Excellent presentation, thank you. Another easy way to create a pad is to split the topo as you demonstrated and reset the shape, then you can adjust the height to suit. It is annoying how you can't delete sub-elements, or am I missing something?
Can you do a video on correct practice for detailing/annotating a Topo solid site. I find that there is an issue with dimensioning sloping gradients. Revit will now dimension lock on the hypotenuse(slope) rather and therefore site information that would be presented in 2D is different to 3D. I.E the steeper the slope of a ramp the difference between 2D and 3D will become larger. There must be a term for this perhaps.
can u snap a vertex (for topo/floor/whatever) to LOWEST lidar poins in a specified radius or drape a shape on the lidar points (lowest points of course)
Hi, talking about graded region, you show that moving sub elements gives the correct net cut/fill value. Is there a way to cut toposolid with in place components or families, and keep having the correct net cut/fill value, without using Environment plug in?
Please make a video and explain how these three parameters work in the properties of the level: On the floor above, Load-bearing structures, building a floor.
Thanks for the tutorial, very helpful. Question, once the Toposolid has been split, how do you unsplit it or merge one toposolid to another? Without undoing? Revit 2023 used merge which was brilliant to adapt a topography to show different options as the project evolved. The join tool does not suffice, as you're still left with many pieces of toposolid. Help on the subject would be much appreciated.
Thanks alot for the video!, I have a problem with setting the levels and adjusting the building hieght based on toposolid generated from a CAD file with real levele hights above the sea, How am i going to adjust the levels all at once? is there any method to do it! it is driving me crazy XD!
Thanks for this tutorial. I found it very helpful. I have one question. @21:04 when I apply the -200 offset to my cut it moves the whole cut down by 200 which means I will have a protrusion at the bottom. Can you help me find out how to resolve this?
What I do not understand is why the toposolid is acting like a robot with such harsh contours. I am trying to create a toposolid to act the way the toposurface previously acted, where I input my topo points and it creates a smoothed organic surface. This topo solid looks like jagged rocks in the mountains! Please help me with a fix.
Nope. For complete civil earthworks, grading, long sections you still need civil 3D. Revit cannot do that. Topo solids in revit are for presentation purposes only. Specially when doing roads.
Hi. Great Video. I tried to create the toposolid from an autocad file and then my toposolid is flat and there are no contour lines. Do you know why? Is something regarding the autocad file? Thank you
Please make a tutorial in which you actually build a structure or a small house on an irregular site and then calculate cut and fill and put the house on same level and after that please create elevations with site line
Is there a way for the toposolid to keep the paths and roads generated from AutoCad on the model also? I am doing a winery on the river Seine in France and when I created the toposolid it swallowed up half of the generated buildings
Thank you for your video, would it be possible to do a tutorial on how to build underground while keeping the original topographyon top of the building? As this feature didn't exist in revit 2023.
Why, when I create the toposolid and want to make a path, it doesn't let me change said path or give it depth? It doesn't allow me to place anything in negative quantities
How to join a region of topography that was previously separated from the topography? I separated the area of the land on which the architectural project will be carried out, from the rest of the topography so that when I change the contours of my terrain, the contours around the terrain do not change. It happens that I want to modify the region of my land, and the problem is that I can't unite the region that was previously separated with the rest of the existing topography of the surroundings (I reasoned that I need to unite two regions so that I can redraw the area that will be separated again ). Can someone help me ? 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤
Hi, I wrote several emails asking for information, but I have not received a reply. I would be interested in buying a course related to topographic modeling with Revit. I wanted to know if the course is also available in Italian (even only subtitles, not automatic). Thk
Waiting for my Co to implement upgrade. Can anyone tell me if you can have varied ground layers under surface. Can you specify these levels to get an idea of how these levels will look?
You are amazing! Can you show a quick video on how to plot point on excel? I do civil but we mostly work with horizontal and vertical points but you mentioned that we need “z” points 🙏
If you want to master Toposolids in Revit, we offer a full Site Design and Coordination Course for Revit.
You can find it here: balkanarchitect.com/p/site-design-coordination-in-revit
I was shocked to enter Revit and seeing toposolid instead of what I'm used to for the last 10 years lol.
Great video to keep me up to date!
Thanks!
I used floors instead of Topo surface since 2018. Happy with it so far. And the best thing about it, is that you can phase it!
You can phase subregions too... but this new version is shite haha
For small projects I agree, but for big projects as 10,000 plus square meters making a floor for a terrain, I believe is too much load por a model, but tell me your experience I would love to know more!
Yes sir ! I was waiting for this !!
You are amazing. You have been my best teacher. I'm grateful
Really grateful for such a full tutorial!
Wow, first video ever with a really interesting sponsor moment.
Great tips. I recently opened the new sample project for Revit, and it has a nice, simple approach on how to design roads: they are nothing but a subdvision, shorter than other subdvisions (such as grass and sidewalks). 😉
Thanks this changed on new version was confusing.
Exactly what I needed, thanks!
thank you revit god
Great tutorial. @Balkan Architect, the option about CUT/FILL is OLD, more than 17 years ;). Congratulations for your patience and quality of the content. Cheers from Brazil.
It helped me a lot !!! Thank you :)
Great Tutorial as always. Thank You Sir.
Literally all what I needed.. thank you VERY MUCH
Thanks, exactly what I needed. Very simple to understand.
@6:00 your import looks like it adhered to the contour lines exactly, but when I imported mine, it did not. I've gone down so far as importing 0.1m and 0.25m contour lines, but it STILL does not adhere to the contour lines.
Is it possible to refine the mesh/decrease the size of the mesh faces in Revit? I've tried every different way of exporting the file with different contours/points/grids I can think of and nothing works very well.
thank you so much!
I honestly don't use topography enough. Thanks for sharing your tips
great explanation! thanks one more time!
Modeling Landscapes is absolutel the hadest among all the disciplines. Neither architecture, nor MEP or ther engineering divisions have and need such complicated modeling. Landscape is absolutely the most challenging and it is great to see that more and more features and being added to make things easier.
Finally we can applied differents patterns on topography, for 3D views this is a big improvement
You could always split topo and apply different patterns.
Great video. Thank you
thanks for your amazing video
I've been waiting for these features for years! Thank you for your videos.
Absolutely amazing tutorial! For me, the video thats useful for me starts from 14:21 - Contours (Graphics) till the end!
Amazing content! thanks for that
bro you are amazing. thanks for your content
I appreciate that!
Fantastic.
THANK YOU
Thanks a lot well explained.
Amazing sir
Great! Thanks!
Yet another half-finished "upgrade" by Autodesk. At least the have advanced part of the tool beyond 1997... Thanks for your detailed overview, Balkan Architect.
As always... Extreemely clear and concise. I would like you to know that when I did download the newest revit and saw this changes... I inmediately thought of you. Probably I´d be taking the site course in a couple weeks as well. Thanks you !
I laughed at the "(and I really dont like them)" part hahahahahahah
thanks, this video help me a lot
Thank you a lot
thx for the turorial. I would be more curious in Revit 2023 how would you go about making a topo for an existing house on a very sloped terrain and also phase that terrain for the proposed works. The real problem is when a house is carving into the surface and trying to phase that out. Maybe you find some time to talk about it. Thank you.
The fact that you can’t create negativ values for subdivisions makes this tool a lot worse
Huh come again ?
Yeah they should allow negative values for subdivisions.
exactly
subregion couldnt even do positive offsets.. only stay on the surface..
now it would be nice if it could subtract sure. but isnt worse.
Now I thought the new landscape would be faster - but moving a single point of height takes 1 minute on a good pc with a recenably large landscape - ouch!
I HOPE U CAN DO A NEW VID ON SCHEDULES FOR TOPOSOLIDS, IM HAVING ISSUES WITH GETTING THE CUT/FILL PARAMETERS TO SHOW UP, UR VIDS ARE REALLY HELPFUL!!
Oh!! Nice :3
perfect
Does this mean in order to create the surface bed for existing houses when working with renovations - instead of building pads, now we need to create voids on the toposolid? The site is for these purposes not a steeply sloped site. If adding a new building on the exact site we need to grade it and show where we are demolishing and keeping existing site?
Excelente!
22:10 DO you think it would be a good practice to create a Design Option before splitting and altering the toposolid? 🤔
Interesting idea, I will look into that!
What is the best way to deal with phasing and toposolids? If you use the graded region tool you then all the toposolids get phased as demolished so there isn't really a good way to show demolition plans when you're demolishing part of a sidewalk for example. Thoughts?
THE GOAT
How did you link the CAD file at 4:55? I cant find anywhere where you can import the DWG file and make it visible in your revit model
When I use Graded Region, I have two toposolids, one in existing phase and one that has some mass removed in new phase. Revit only gives a number in the "filled" tab, but shouldn't this be in the "cut" tab?
Can you make a video on complex toposolids excavation for complex design modeling such as landscape architecture and all . please 🙏🏻
17:48 this subdivision can be turned on a estructural element and apply to it some rebars? It can be perfect to modeling a nailing soil, (a type of soil stabilization.)
when i set the visual style to realistic it just showed the usual grey material. Did you customize the materials to show grass & earth textures/colors?
The voids are all good and well, but when the site is sloping more drastically, it does not fill the gap which exists above the surface but under the floor. So far I am not having much luck with the new Toposolids...
Excellent presentation, thank you. Another easy way to create a pad is to split the topo as you demonstrated and reset the shape, then you can adjust the height to suit. It is annoying how you can't delete sub-elements, or am I missing something?
Great video. But what about creating building pads in Lite? Can't use Massing or Component-Model-in-Place.
Can you do a video on correct practice for detailing/annotating a Topo solid site. I find that there is an issue with dimensioning sloping gradients. Revit will now dimension lock on the hypotenuse(slope) rather and therefore site information that would be presented in 2D is different to 3D. I.E the steeper the slope of a ramp the difference between 2D and 3D will become larger. There must be a term for this perhaps.
can u snap a vertex (for topo/floor/whatever) to LOWEST lidar poins in a specified radius or drape a shape on the lidar points (lowest points of course)
Hi, talking about graded region, you show that moving sub elements gives the correct net cut/fill value. Is there a way to cut toposolid with in place components or families, and keep having the correct net cut/fill value, without using Environment plug in?
You can use shaft to make a pad in the tobosolid
Please make a video and explain how these three parameters work in the properties of the level: On the floor above, Load-bearing structures, building a floor.
Thanks for the tutorial, very helpful. Question, once the Toposolid has been split, how do you unsplit it or merge one toposolid to another? Without undoing? Revit 2023 used merge which was brilliant to adapt a topography to show different options as the project evolved. The join tool does not suffice, as you're still left with many pieces of toposolid. Help on the subject would be much appreciated.
i believe you just delete the subdivision
What is the 'Piont' of this csv file? 7:06
Thanks alot for the video!, I have a problem with setting the levels and adjusting the building hieght based on toposolid generated from a CAD file with real levele hights above the sea, How am i going to adjust the levels all at once? is there any method to do it! it is driving me crazy XD!
Thanks for this tutorial. I found it very helpful. I have one question. @21:04 when I apply the -200 offset to my cut it moves the whole cut down by 200 which means I will have a protrusion at the bottom. Can you help me find out how to resolve this?
can we create the terrain with curved lines? instead of dots
What I do not understand is why the toposolid is acting like a robot with such harsh contours. I am trying to create a toposolid to act the way the toposurface previously acted, where I input my topo points and it creates a smoothed organic surface. This topo solid looks like jagged rocks in the mountains! Please help me with a fix.
how parking component could be fitted correctly on toposolid?
They're hosted only horizontally
Im convinced they are taking notes from blender
No more need to use Civil 3D for contouring, Now Revit is amazing software for even everything ❤❤❤
Nope. For complete civil earthworks, grading, long sections you still need civil 3D. Revit cannot do that. Topo solids in revit are for presentation purposes only. Specially when doing roads.
pads used to work both ways. you could have a building pad ABOVE the topo and it would fill below it. is there no way to do this now??
Hi. Great Video. I tried to create the toposolid from an autocad file and then my toposolid is flat and there are no contour lines. Do you know why? Is something regarding the autocad file? Thank you
Hi, is it possible/reasonable?/ to convert floor-modelled terrain into toposolid?
Please make a tutorial in which you actually build a structure or a small house on an irregular site and then calculate cut and fill and put the house on same level and after that please create elevations with site line
Is there a way for the toposolid to keep the paths and roads generated from AutoCad on the model also? I am doing a winery on the river Seine in France and when I created the toposolid it swallowed up half of the generated buildings
What about the shared coordinates ? If we want actual coordinates ?
how to watch projects in 3d on mobile phone, and level by level
The balkan-ignit
I literally can't change the material of my divided topo solid. I can paint new material onto the OG solid but not the split. Please help!
Thank you for your video, would it be possible to do a tutorial on how to build underground while keeping the original topographyon top of the building? As this feature didn't exist in revit 2023.
Hi sir, to draw path around building should we use property line itself in the new revit
?
Is it possible to add toposolid after the structure has been modeled? Thanks
No encontré ningún video en español que me explicara ciertas cosas que tu explicaste, gracias.
how to show site plan in floor plan? help me😢
Why, when I create the toposolid and want to make a path, it doesn't let me change said path or give it depth? It doesn't allow me to place anything in negative quantities
u have any screeshot for csv how any columns inside
do you have the template for the CSV topo excel?
Thanks Balkan, where Content library is situated or to download it ?
If you don't have it installed, try this: ua-cam.com/video/tJoGA0dPJN0/v-deo.html
Voids don't factor into cut/fill calculation... unless I'm missing something?
CAn I set an emoji as the Primary Contour line type?
How to join a region of topography that was previously separated from the topography? I separated the area of the land on which the architectural project will be carried out, from the rest of the topography so that when I change the contours of my terrain, the contours around the terrain do not change. It happens that I want to modify the region of my land, and the problem is that I can't unite the region that was previously separated with the rest of the existing topography of the surroundings (I reasoned that I need to unite two regions so that I can redraw the area that will be separated again ). Can someone help me ? 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤
Wow, some great improvements, but still some tools need a review, subdivisions would be a powerful tool for large urban projects like airports.
😁
Hi, I wrote several emails asking for information, but I have not received a reply. I would be interested in buying a course related to topographic modeling with Revit. I wanted to know if the course is also available in Italian (even only subtitles, not automatic). Thk
Waiting for my Co to implement upgrade. Can anyone tell me if you can have varied ground layers under surface. Can you specify these levels to get an idea of how these levels will look?
You are amazing! Can you show a quick video on how to plot point on excel? I do civil but we mostly work with horizontal and vertical points but you mentioned that we need “z” points 🙏
Perhaps you can try this:
ua-cam.com/video/sgeCHdDqtLE/v-deo.html
yes great, but can we now dimension to it in section?
I wolud like to see a tutorial about creating water and shoreline, as is pictured in the thumbnail.
Where can I find the 'floor base void' component?
the split or subdivide topography is real janky was allot simpler before keeps coming up as an error
My tool bar is very limited when editing modify sub element doesn't even show up