Draw a site plan

[Anonymous]

Hello !

I have come over a problem in my current project.

I want to draw a site plan to a house, and i am not sure how to do that in revit. I have a jpg of the plan i want to draw it on, and then print it out with the house correctly placed on the plan. 

Please see the attached images, Korrekt.jpg is the result i want. The other one is what i currently have 🙂 Hope someone have a good solution to this.

[ennujozlagam]

hello, there are some options you can do, 1) either you trace over your site jpeg files in autocad with exact boundary line dimensions/coordinates and link that file into revit. 2) you can link your jpeg files into revit in your site plan but it should be in correct dimensions. thanks

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your answer!

I am not sure how to trace it in autocad, could you please explain?

Solution 2 is the one i have tried so far, and it dit not go as i had hoped....

[chrisplyler]

Open Revit into the Site plan view.

Insert your jpg file and place it.

Trace some known dimension/line in the image with a Model Line of the correct length.

Scale the image until it matches the model line you drew, so that you know the image is true size now.

Move the image wherever you want and pin it.

Delete the model line you drew...don't need it anymore.

But really, contact whoever produced those site plans and ask for a cad file of same. Professional output usually requires professional input. Not always, but usually.