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Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:50:41 AM | noob with questions and some experience

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My first post here, hello all!

My university now has a license for Revit 2010 which means i can print for submissions! Smile Smile

I was wondering how i would import a toposurface from data extrapolated from google earth, i tried saving the file through civil 3D but revit does ney want to recognise the contents. Would be really nice to lay the raster image and contours of the site over my building project. 

 I will probably be posting many many questions over the coming months is this ok? 

Another query would be is if i start drawing my model is there a way later once its finished to re align the compass to give the buildings real location, i guess a bit of context is what im after, 

 Sorry if im asking dumb questions, i have plenty of tutorial material but I find asking questions always helps 


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Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:34:06 AM | noob with questions and some experience

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Look on the home page here at RC, there is a link to the AUGI Edge on-line magazine.  Download that and read the artical on Revit - project positioning.

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Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:15:28 AM | noob with questions and some experience

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Welcome to Revit World...

 


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Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:28:55 PM | noob with questions and some experience

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Welcome to RevitCity fred8583!

It's great for you to post lots of questions here on RevitCity with one big but. And that is, make sure the questions you post are not easily answered by the Revits Help (which tends to be pretty good for quick answers, for example inserting raster images into Views which may answer one of your questions). The other thing is to make sure your question isn't already answered on RevitCity. Think of RC as a resource that your questions should add value to instead of polluting with lots of the same stuff.

Happy Reviting!

 


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Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:01:01 PM | noob with questions and some experience

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Welcome here fred.....

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Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:27:27 AM | noob with questions and some experience

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I know that you can bring in a google earch topo by linking it into sketchup then loading it in to revit, and im sure there is a way to bring the image with it.

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Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:42:20 AM | noob with questions and some experience

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Thanks all for the advice, i will attempt to take it on board. Still need to do lots of reading around Revit Arch and structure. I will do my very best to seek out answers to questions, but if not you will be hearing from me again Smile

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Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:02:40 AM | noob with questions and some experience

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heres my building in question

criticism much appreciated & needed 



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Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:58:15 AM | noob with questions and some experience

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cool, did you do the structure in revit architecture or in structure?


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Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:21:38 AM | noob with questions and some experience

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Have been messing around in structure for th emost part heres an update, im becoming concerned as to the exact nature of revit, i think im missing something big and should go through the tutorials, a rep from autodesk is going to send me the 2010 training materials which im looking forward to.

Im guessing the purpose of revit is to provide a theoretical model more than anything else, while my discipline isnt structures, they are  akey part of the detail we need to include within design, needless to say the model is not structurally accurate. Such a a building poses problems with negotiating the frame layout, lots of curved ASB is there and im not sure as to the practicalities of cutting Corus comflor to curved dimension. Im not an expert on structures but the analysis goes mental with this structure (lots of errors) but if its purpose is a model then i can perhaps leave this...

 One question should i start from scratch in structure or should i continue to make a messy building, even though the render looks pretty smooth, its just adding the floors makes a mess, something about the loading makes severe depression in areas of the floor, going to try and sort the frame out first,  check the technological aspects out with my tutor and then put it in Revit Arch for the finale.

 Again Ideas and criticism most welcome



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