Sloping Concrete Curbs

[SCShell]

This is my first "tip" for Revit since buying it in June of 2003.

I am modelling an existing office building here in Tucson. The driveway entry has a 4' slope from the street, up to the main padded area of the site. Because this is the front of the building, I know that it will be a very dominant element of the renderings and views of the project; therefore, I really wanted to model the curbs along with the driveway and topo/site elements.
I shared this with my local Revit User's Group last night and they thought this was pretty nifty. So, I thought I would share it with you.

Model your curb as a concrete sidewalk (floor) which is only 6" wide. This way, you can utilize the slope arrow command for sloping floors. I have several sidewalks already in revit, so it was really fast to pull up, edit and label the head & tail elevations with respective offsets to match the topo. Works great!

Hope you all enjoy this one.
(Never go with the flow!)
Steve Shell

[Joef]

Thanks for this tip. I'm sure to use this one often!

Joe

[Wes Macaulay]

Yes -- good tip: thanks!

[Scott Hopkins]

I missed this tip the first time around but it is a really good one!

[sbrown]

Or create a slab edge profile in the shape of a curb and gutter and just pick the edge of your floor(sidewalk)

[christo4robin]

Scott Brown (if memory serves) had made site based curb elements quite awhile back. I'm about to start making some curbs on a site with a modest, consistent slope. I'm curious if the sloping floor has become the methodology of choice. Thoughts?

[sbrown]

I think the sloping floor is much easier than the components I created. Just create them all on a site workset so you can turn them off when you want.

[sbrown]

But even better than the floor idea I thought was the ramp idea, this one lets you turn corners. Basically the ramp one used a railing profile shaped like a curb, edit the boundary lines of your ramp to whatever shape your sidewalk is and you then can have curved sloping sidewalks.

[ArSuchiT]

Thanks all for your input. I'm also looking for how to place sloping curbs in Revit models.

I quite didn't get the solution. Do you mind elaborating it. I would greatly appreciate that. Thank you.