Landscape Tools

What it does

Revit gives a toposolid — and a floor, and a roof — a set of shape points, and the surface is the triangulation between them. Every tool here adds points, moves points or removes points; the surface follows.

Fifteen tools covering the whole job: converting hard landscape between floors, toposolids and subdivisions; draping a floor onto the ground; driving a surface from picked edges; merging a survey patch into a parent surface; adding points from lines, contours and face intersections; cleaning up with Simplify, Topo Ladder and region resets; and generating cut and fill batters from a driving edge.

Highlights

• Convert hard landscape between floors, toposolids and toposolid subdivisions, carrying the shape across.
• Drape a floor onto a toposolid with a vertical offset — paving that follows the ground.
• Build or re-drive a toposolid from picked model edges.
• Merge a survey patch into a parent surface, with the rim draped rather than torn.
• Add points from model lines, contours, or where faces intersect the surface.
• Connect Points draws a straight row between two picked points, interpolating height.
• Simplify thins an imported surface against the original, so removals can't drift.
• Topo Ladder squares up staggered point rows so triangles run straight down a slope.
• Cut/Fill Batters sweeps a 1:n slope to the existing surface and samples the batter foot.

Before you start

• Select first, then run — these tools take the Revit selection and then show their dialog.
• Some need a 3D view and a couple need a plan; each says so if you're in the wrong one.
• A toposolid with shape editing disabled can't be touched, and the tool will tell you.

Quick start

1. Select the surface, the edges or the lines the tool works from.
2. Open the tool from the Landscape panel.
3. Set the spacing, tolerance or ratio, and run it.

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