Today's BIM Chapters blog post features a video I created on getting preliminary topography into Revit. Two workflows are covered:
- Creating a toposolid (or toposurface)
- Linking a surface with aerial imagery
To emphasize the opportunity, I used a mountainous area in the US.
Grounding your preliminary building design requires importing topography data in Autodesk Revit. In this post, I share a link to a YouTube video I created showing how to use preliminary data created by SketchUp.
This is helpful before more accurate Survey or proposed Civil/LA data is available. These workflowa are also great for larger regions beyond the immediate project site, especially when developing visualizations using Enscape or doing daylight explorations.
Here is the 9-minute 4k video on YouTube...
Here are a few more images from the video...
I know there are other workflows, but this one is simple if you have access to SketchUp (Pro version). Share your thoughts in the comments below, or on YouTube.
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