Hi,
Can Revit work in the design of a city? Lee Miller has this as his topic for AU in December, and he does promise exactly what we're looking to do:
Create and schedule districts and plots with area plans
Create and schedule building masses
Paramatize building masses with relevant urban design data
Use levels and mass floors to generate accurate GFAs
Create roads using mass and modified wall tools
But how do you get around the conceptual masses needing to have a variety of floor-to-floor levels in the city, or even how do you create a city worth of masses rapidly, without a new family object for every slightly different mass (just use parametrics I guess - sounds heavy)
Once a mass is down, I can't see how you can ask it to report back an area that it is located in (say Planning Zone 1, or Planning Zone 2).
I'm thinking that the list of 'can-do' things above is for a small city block with only a few masses on it.
Idea's anyone?
Thanks in advance.