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
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