I can't see a compelling reason for a purely Civil Engineering or Surveying
firm to invest in Revit.
However, there are a few things you'll want to be aware of when sharing
files with Revit users. To obtain data from them, you can have them export a
building site from Revit as an ADSK file (available on the Revit Application
menu under "Export"). This can be imported directly into Civil3D.
When sending data to an architect or engineer using Revit, send it to them
without any custom Civil3D objects, as Revit doesn't have any object
enablers for them - contours should be comprised of geometry that is in 3D
at the elevations that they represent to enable them to be used in creating
a toposurface in Revit.
Also, and this is a biggie - be aware that Revit versions prior to 2011 have
a limit of 2 miles from the origin for all geometry. If you're using state
plane coordinates chances are your site plan is outside of that origin. It
can be dealt with on the architect's side, but if you can get them the
geometry so that it's closer to the origin in the first place it will make
things easier.
Revit 2011 has a limit of 20 miles.
"lstarbird" wrote in message news:6398696@discussion.autodesk.com...
> As a civil engineering firm I'd like to know what Revit is used for by
> other disciplines, would civil engineering firm have any uses for the
> program? I'd like to know what other disciplines are using Revit, and
> what products are created with this program? Do civil engineering firms
> need to provide them any special 3D information to support any of there
> products? What products would our 3D (or 2D) be used to create those
> other disciplines products?