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I work for a design-build construction & engineering company. As a draftsman I create sheet drawings that cover every aspect of the particular job. One thing I would wish Revit would come out with is a Civil package to compliment their Structure, MEP, and Architecure package. Some things we typically show are underground/overhead utilities, water-sanitary/sewer lines, property, fence and gates, easements, drainage tile, roads, sidewalks, curbs, light/utility poles, hydrants, clean-outs, catch basins, water/curb inlets, gate-valves, trees, and all the demolitioned aspects of the aforementioned as well. Another nice feature to have about a Revit Civil package would be the ability to create families of manhole and curb inlets so as a section view through the underground storm/sanitary pipes could easily be created in profile views. I see a serious need here for this type of package to be developed for companies such as the one I work for to be able to use.
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Curently Revit is not very friendly on the civil side of things. I think you would be best off using civil 3d and then importing the topo, etc. Not very BIM like but thats what I have herd others are doing. Nick
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To me it would be a no brainer to include a Civil package in the Revit family, but as stated by NKramer, Autodesk already has Civil 3D, and they have to still make their money on Civil 3D, so for that reason I dont see a Revit Civil in the near future. Maybe as Revit and BIM grow in the industry and the demand for better Revit compatible site tools grow will be too great for Autodesk to ignore a Revit Civil package.
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this is a good thread and i have given a lot of thought to the three posts here so far.. another example would be the construction of gas stations.. lots of civil engineering and site work there.. the engineer will of course be using civil 3D- but my question is- would those civil drawings- full of complex mechanical details- be imported into revit and put on revit drawing sheets? or would there be separate sheets plotted by the engineer and submitted along with the revit sheets? or would there be just some of the site lines imported to revit and some stay with the autoCAD sheets? seems like it would be better to have everything all on the same sheets.. any comments?- thanks
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I have been working with Revit for 2 years now, finally figured out how to create curb gutter and sidewalk, using Sweep Blends. What would be really be useful as a tool is a refinement of pad to work more like topo surface. - make the new surface work like topography use a few elevation points to create your surface
- allow it to show topography lines and establish drainage patterns
- allow it to be curved using the basic line tools
- allow it to be cut to insert objects such as trench drains, sewer manholes
- allow the finished surface to use all of the available surface finishes stone, concrete, dirt, grass, etc.
- create surface with multiple materials and thicknesses with soil or what ever being allowed to vary to the top of the existing grade below, or cut the existing grade and give all of these volumes
This would be a very useful tool and would go a long way to improving site plan development.
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hi steve- interesting what you posted.. i've been learning revit for three years- although a little slow.. it sounds like you are discovering that a lot of civil work can actually be done in revit.. is that correct? so maybe that means you could import lines from autoCAD civil and have it all on revit drawing sheet.. what do you think? this is important to me because no matter what we build- the civil drawings have to go with it.. i'm just trying to learn how exactly..
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Generally in my practice for public work, the entity that will own the street sidewalk etc. will want the drawings on there sheets and to date they want there electronic copy in ACAD (UUUk). It would be very easy to import the ACAD drawings and put them on your sheets for such work as large parking lots that type of thing. Just like you do for details. The work more or less like a block. Good luck.
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