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mevans_stewart
en respuesta a: gvanderiet

I'd like to second everything gvanderiet has said. Autodesk has overlooked Landscape Architecture as a profession either intentionally or out of ignorance. Many of the tools in Revit could be very helful, especially in an urban context where complex vertical and horizontal site features need to be designed, rendered and documented for construction (included, but not limited to plants). This breaks down when Revit needs to coordinate with real-world coordinates, complex and accurate topography, multiple types of hardscape with many different cross sections (sometimes on structure) with specific slopes and radii, soil cross sections of different types, sub-surface utilities, stormwater design, roadway / trail design, and 3D scans of existing buildings, ( I almost forgot the plants).

 

I work in a multi-disciplinary firm where we design all these things on a regular basis, but at great labor and at great loss of efficiency. Civil 3D grading tools are fine for generating rough TINs with no materials, but when it comes to actual 3D site design - no dice. This makes BIM for site virtually impossible. I currently have to work in Civil 3D (primarily), Revit (for coordination with arch), Sketchup for concept design and rendering, Infraworks for contextual visualization and coordination, and a custom CAD plugin for Civil 3D for planting design because the add-ons work very poorly within Civil 3D and are poorly supported.

 

Autodesk - this is pathetic plea to you - please fill in this gap! I would like to be able to go home at some point and see my family, but I have re-export architectural footprints and elevations and update all my 2D site drawings and then export to sketchup for to model and render. (The architects just have to change their graphic style settings by the way).