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ron.sanpedro
2008-06-02, 06:01 PM
Given a nice large site, multiple buildings in a campus, and ongoing landscape design, I am wondering what people have found to be best practice for managing pads and such?
My issue is that once you place a pad it makes the resulting topo very hard to edit in any broad brush kind of way. Sure I can fuss a building corner elevation, but in effect regrading the whole site is a nightmare. But deleting the pads is another nightmare, as I have 9 buildings, some basement space, a fairly complex footprint, and another three or four iterations of site design to look forward to. So deleting and recreating pads every time is ridiculous. I tried putting the pads on their own workset and unloading it, but the pad still cuts even when unloaded. My next thought is to put all the pads into a group, convert the group to a link and detach the link. Now I can edit the site in a meaningful way. Then I relink the pads, convert them back into a group, and I have holes in my site again. So much for "Works like an Architect thinks!" But I can see nothing that works better than this lame kludge I have come up with. So I am hoping someone has a more graceful way to handle this?

Also, I have noticed that when topo is defined with points rather than imported geometry, placing a pad can cause all sorts of very wrong jagged edges. And given that probably 80% of the topo DWGs we get are still 2D, lousy layer management, not Plines, with origins miles away from the site, etc. we have no choice but to do a lot of point defined topo. That or redo our consultants work to make it useful in Revit. Again, hoping someone has a better answer than the painful kludge I have found. Would love to be wrong twice this morning. ;)

Thanks,
Gordon

Thanks,
Gordon

ron.sanpedro
2008-06-02, 06:38 PM
For reference, here is the broken topo I am seeing. Those jagged topo lines are only junk once the pad is placed. Delete the pad and they look nice and smooth (as nice and smooth as they can when defined with line segments!)

Thanks!
Gordon

Andre Carvalho
2008-06-02, 07:34 PM
Gordon,

I'm not sure if that will help, but unless you have to respect an specific interval for your contour lines, going to Settings > Site settings > and playing with the intervals could make these jagged lines smoother. Or temporarily not showing intervals at all.

Andre Carvalho