How do you handle Site Plan projects?

[nsinha73]

How do you guys handle projects that are just site plans only...eg. Carpark Layouts, pavings, flatworks, Game Court stripings etc.?

[cliff collins]

If they are just 2D "diagrams", we sometimes do them in Autocad.

If we need a "smarter" version, which needs to show 3D topography
and have automatic scheduling of parking spaces, plants, light poles, etc
then we do them in Revit.

To show paving/grass/sidewalk areas, we start with a toposurface and then
use sub-regions to break it up into different sections and give each sub region
a material--like Site-Grass, Site-Asphalt, Site-Concrete, etc.

Planting and lighting fixtures can be scheduled.
Parking stalls can be scheduled. ( watch out, they do not work very well
on sloping sites.)

cheers........