From the course: Revit Architecture: Designing a House
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Site creation
- [Instructor] The first step of creating our site is to create our toposurface. Now, the toposurface is also considered your grade, meaning it's the ground level that will be all the way around the perimeter of our building. To create that toposurface, our best bet is to go to our Project Browser underneath Floor Plans and then go to the site view. Now, the reason why we're going to the site view is that it has a good enough view depth that we should be able to see the entire site when it's drawn out. Now, the next thing that we want to do is be able to see where the outside edges of our building are located at. So, to do that simply, I'm just going to zoom in here to this corner of our building. Then, I'm going to click once, hold my mouse button down, and just window around just this small, little section here. Then I'll let go. What we can see is that right now, it's selected on the roof, it's selected on the fascia board, and it's selected on the gutter, which is going all the…
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