Revit Connecter Workflow Issues

[eklingerHFVZ3]

I am experiencing some issues with the Revit Connector workflow. I started with a Forma project that had topography and a site boundary. My intention was to send the Forma project, along with the property boundary to Revit so i could start modeling in Revit and then send it back to Forma. The property line imported into Revit just fine, however, it did not import at my template level one in Revit, but instead hundreds of feet below but that is beside the point for this post. I modeled a simple test geometry in Revit just to confirm the workflow and sent it back to Forma. I received a message saying that the changes were updated and went to Forma to take a look. No model was visible so I refreshed, nothing. I left the Forma project completely and went back in, nothing. It was not until i started rotating around that I noticed the model was under the topography all along. 

Since the revit geometry was modeled at our standard level one elevation in Revit, I do not want to raise the building in Revit in order for it to clear the Forma terrain. There do not seem to be any options for me to set an import elevation in Forma so I am at a loss. 

Am I doing something incorrectly or is this a bug?  

 

[kronz]

Hi, thanks so much for the feedback. In Revit, where is your Revit modeled building in relationship to the terrain that you have fetched from Forma? That relationship should be very much the same after Updating to Forma. Because property lines are not planar in Forma, we have to use some general rules of thumb to find a sensible place to represent them as model lines in Revit, but the building elements that you add in Revit should be represented in the same relationship to any topography that comes into Revit. 

[eklingerHFVZ3]

I did not import any terrain, only the property line. I was not interested in the terrain for my testing, only the property line so I could properly site the building. 

[kronz]

For locating the Forma data in Revit, we use a couple of fallback approaches, first we use the location of any buildings (context or designed ones) to be lowest ones with respect to project origin, and if there are no buildings, we use the lowest area of terrain. We ignore any non-"building" geometry for location purposes. From other posts you have, it looks like you have uses for sending pretty minimal sets of information to Revit, so in general it sounds like we should consider adding more fallback routines for smaller sets of loaded data.

[eklingerHFVZ3]

I tried importing the model with the terrain but I get the error message: "Something went wrong, the Forma team has been alerted. You may try again, or contact Forma Support for further Assistance." each time I try to bring in terrain