I have a site plan with contours with high at the bottom and low at the top of the site plan. The site is a true radius of 100'. The site contours are reading upside down. Any ideals how to fix this?
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I have a site plan with contours with high at the bottom and low at the top of the site plan. The site is a true radius of 100'. The site contours are reading upside down. Any ideals how to fix this?
There is no fix at the moment. Be sure to log this with Autodesk Support.
Revit is designed to have the label for a contour always point it's bottom down the hill. Just the way it is - not the way it should be.Originally Posted by Don Sutherland
We encountered the same problem and it was maddening until we finally figured out that if you plot directly to the plotter from autocad it will always rotate the contour label upside down, but if you plot from a dwf of the drawing it will print the contours as they appear in the view.
Just ran into this very old one again. Is this still not fixed?
Last edited by iru69; 2008-05-13 at 12:56 AM.
Still not fixed. And it seems to me that it labels from low to high, so if the high point is at the top or left of the screen, you get correct labels. If the low point is there, you get junk. I guess since it isn't sexy to say we fixed the broken bits, this stuff doesn't get funded for development. Starting to get really frustrated with the amount of simply ridiculous stuff that never gets fixed, while Google Earth plugins and the #@$% Steering Butt gets added. Lame.
Then again, you could probably say they need to junk the entire site toolset and start over, so perhaps they are not bothering to fix something they know they will be throwing out soon anyway? Probably Sarbanes-Oxley requires drawing and quartering for telling us anything about it too.
Gordon
Chad the Optimist? Never thought I'd see the day!
As for fixes, I would LOVE to have a ground up re-write, with nothing new, just bugs fixed and code well sorted so improvements moving forward would be easier. And I would defend Autodesk at every turn. Alas, bean counters don't much care for such things, and Autodesk is not the same company they where back when AutoCAD got a ground up re-write. And Pessimist is just a word used by Optimists to describe Realists.
Still, cross my fingers and hope. But I have also spent the last two weeks trying to get a complex site out of Revit, so my tolerance is wearing a bit thin. And my forehead a bit flat and brick textured.
Gordon
I've met Civil Engineers who say that this is consistent with their standards (read facing "up hill"), that's the story from the factory as well. So we may consider it a bug but it works as intended based on input they received originally. Naturally architects have complained about it bitterly ever since...
Michael "MP" Patrick
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