From the course: Revit: Detailing to European Codes

Creating a topography - Revit Architecture Tutorial

From the course: Revit: Detailing to European Codes

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Creating a topography

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- [Instructor] In the previous exercise we created the contours from a SketchUp terrain. Now we're going to bring those contours into Revit and we're going to create a toposurface from those contours. Now I've saved those contours as a version eight, and I've also exported them as a DXF and a DWG. So feel free to use whichever method that you prefer. I'm going to use the SketchUp file, and I'm in the 0103 project file. Probably better to go onto the site view to start off with. And then on the insert tab, go to import CAD and import the excised files. Make sure the files of type that we've got, if you want SketchUp to be the SKP. If you prefer to bring in DWG or DXF, I've made versions of those as well, just select the appropriate format and then double click on chapter one, the site. And then pick the file that you want. So, as we're looking at SketchUp files it's showing me the two SketchUp options. It's this one we want, 0103, creating a toposervice from import. All our settings down here we can leave as is, and then we'll click on open. And after a while it should come in to the project. Now, the contours are much bigger than what we can see on our sheet at the moment. The distance between these markers is about 24, 25 meters. So double clicking the wheel of your mouse should then reveal the contours. These markers that we can see in the middle, the circular one is the project based point. And the triangular one is the survey based point. But for the moment, these are the contours that we have got. Now, if you go into 3D, we're able to see what shape that they produce. Now, this is no good to us at the moment. This is not a terrain. This is just a series of contours. So we need to move over to the massing and site tab and click on the toposurface button. And then we've got the methods for creating toposurfaces. And we're going to create from import. The options are, our points file where you could bring in a survey points file, or this one here, select import instance. So click on that and then just select this import and just make sure that down the bottom you've got this select pinned elements. If that's got a red tick next to it then you won't be able to select this because it's been pinned, because we brought it in origin to origin. So click on that and then say okay. This has now created our Revit toposurface. And then we can click on the green tick. Okay. So we've got two things sitting on top of each other. Now we've got our contours and we have the Revit surface. So hovering over the surface, if you tap the tab key, that should bring up the contour file. And we can click on that, unpin it, and then it deletes because we no longer need that. So we don't need to keep those contours. We have now created our very first toposurface. Now it looks very muddy at the moment, in the next video I'll show you how you can map some image onto the top of this.

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