How to create pavement/sidewalk?

[raphael.dunbar]

Hi all,

Im wanted to know how to create my site in Revit, with pavements/sidewalks? Also my site has a very gentle slope and a road around 3 sides of it. How do I go about creating this in Revit?

I would like to achieve something like Paul Monsef's has done in his "vertically sloping bay window" project

Also how would I add those tree grates? and what if I wanted to add some steps along my site (outside of the building)? I can attach a small site plan/sketch if that would help explain what Im after if needed.

Thank you.

[raphael.dunbar]

Or could someone point me to a tutorial that explains this kind of thing? I just find the site tools in Revit a bit limiting or hard to grasp, I really would appreciate (please ) some tips as there is nothing in the help and tutorials of Revit.

Thanks

[archjake]

For sidewalk on a site plan I will typically use a floor. You can have them slope. Create multiple levels, etc. Steps can be multiple floors at different levels, or an in place family. I will even use floors for pavement. Just set it the thickness and materials as required.

[raphael.dunbar]

Thanks archjake. So does everyone here just use floors? How do you add say a curb to the floor? Im off to do some more experiments

[artitech]

I use a wall and make it the size and material of a concrete curb. Seems a bit unusual that we use walls and floors for curbs and sidewalks..... these commands should be included under the "Site" tools.

artitech

[Chad Smith]

You really don't get much in the way of site tools. Workarounds are the only way , but with limited results.

[patricks]

The best and easiest way to do curbs that I've found, if you're using floors for sidewalks and pavement, is to create a profile of the curb (and gutter if you want) and then make a slab edge using that profile. Then you can just pick your edges of the slab and it will sweep the profile along the edge, and you instantly have curbs with all the curves and radii that the floor (which is the sidewalk) has.

Of course I only use these for site plans and also for rendering if there isn't too much grade change.

[Joef]

Does this work on sloped edges of a floor? That would be very handy.

Joe

[patricks]

It should work anywhere a slab edge will work.

[BillyGrey]

Where does a slab edge work?

Hmmm.

I did a quick experiment (emphasize quick, so there maybe workabouts), and it seems slab edges in my experiment only stick to flat surfaces, or limited planes on a straight sloping run.
The third image shown illustrates that I could not get slab edges to stick to it's sides.
I could not make them work with curved sloping surfaces at all. Also, it seems that curved sloping surfaces tilt when modelled (curved slab w/ slope arrow).

See attached.