University Campus Site Plan

[edsonasalazar]

So I work with a university and we are trying to have a campus site plan with utilities information in Revit. We already model the majority of the buildings in Revit and now I am trying to do the topography and everything in between, so I can link the Building Files. Now my question, can this be done with Revit MEP or this is only for building systems? Would it be better to use AutoCAD Civil 3D? Our ultimate goal (which is a long way to go) is to have all the information we currently have on paper and in AutoCAD and make a Revit Model, so when someone needs utilities information of some kind we can refer them to this file. Please give me any recommendations if you have ever tried to accomplish something similar, I am open to anything but we would like to have our info in Revit.

[ghale]

If you look at this from the perspective of the designer, your civil and site information is more appropriate in Civil 3D and your building information is appropriate to be in Revit. It is possible to put this kind of information into Revit, but may not be fruitful for anybody other than the university. You will be severely lacking tools to model site and site utilities in Revit compared to tools available in Civil 3D. You can share coordinates between an AutoCAD Civil 3D file and multiple Revit building files and this should be considered as an option.

[edsonasalazar]

If you look at this from the perspective of the designer, your civil and site information is more appropriate in Civil 3D and your building information is appropriate to be in Revit. It is possible to put this kind of information into Revit, but may not be fruitful for anybody other than the university. You will be severely lacking tools to model site and site utilities in Revit compared to tools available in Civil 3D. You can share coordinates between an AutoCAD Civil 3D file and multiple Revit building files and this should be considered as an option.

well that is why we want to do this, to have this information for people within the university. But I guess you are right it might not be the best tool for site utilities.

[ttiefenbach]

We just did this process for a local college. The utilities are better in Civil 3D, but Revit does not read the 3D aspects of Civil 3D. To get around this, you have to export the Civil 3D file, from a 3D view, to a simple AutoCAD file. This will let you see the 3D elements of the Civil 3D file in Revit.

[Revitaoist]

Note that utility lines such as water and sewer cannot be displayed in Revit the way you are probably used to seeing them: a dashed line with a letter in it like "w" or "ss". There are some half-a$$ workarounds for this, but it's not nearly as clean as CAD.