Landscape

[Brian Myers]

My firm has a landscape designer on-staff and we are currently in the process of changing over to Revit on a firm-wide basis. I'm curious as to how others handle landscape design if Revit is your primary design/CD application?

Thanks in advance!

[bpaletz]

Currently our firm has decided not to go down the landscape route. Everything for the building is done in Revit, but our site and landscape is done in AutoCAD. While it causes a few hiccups in the process, it ends up basically acting like the landscape department is a consultant who does not use Revit. Some experimentations are currently underway, but nothing solid as of yet.

[cliff collins]

Revit's Site Tools are very limited--as has been the case since its inception.
On a simple, flat site, you can do basic grading/topography, sub-regions for paving/grass areas, parking stalls/lots with schedules, planting with schedules--etc.

But as soon as the site slopes very much, and you want curbs in 3D which follow the slope--parking striping which conforms to topography, etc. you will have many problems.

Grading plans are simple to create at first--but when complex editing is required you will have limitations and problems getting the tools to do what you need them to do.

Right now the best Autodesk BIM solution for Site/Landscaping is probably Civil 3D--
but most architects do not want to pay for it and learn it as there is a sharp learning curve--and it is really overkill for most architectural work.

So--until we get a new software package called "Revit Site" (LOL) --your choices are pretty limited. ( Note: this post is not intended to be negative or "complaining"--just facing Revit's limitations when it comes to BIM and Site work.)

cheers...