How to create a road in Revit

[Anonymous]

Could anyone tell how to make a road in Revit.
Thank you.

[Anonymous]

A road can be created using the sub-region tool and
then changing the material of the sub-region.

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Jeff Hanson
Autodesk - AEC User Experience
Team
Manchester, NH

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<victorrevit> wrote in message
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Could
anyone tell how to make a road in Revit. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Well. How then would you cut the section of this road and show it's full structure with all the necessary layers (drainage, gravel, asphalt, etc).
I see only two ways. either to use Roof Family or Floor Family.
Is there any other way?
Thank you.

[Anonymous]

This is not something that is very easy in
Revit.  The site tools in Revit allow you to create a basic context for the
building.  Road sections as you are describing would be better accomplished
in another tool.  Floors, roofs, and pads are the only way in
Revit.  Pads wil cut and fill a toposurface underneath
them. 

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Jeff Hanson
Autodesk - AEC
User Experience Team
Manchester, NH

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<victorrevit> wrote in message
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Well.
How then would you cut the section of this road and show it's full structure
with all the necessary layers (drainage, gravel, asphalt, etc). I see only two
ways. either to use Roof Family or Floor Family. Is there any other way? Thank
you.

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much.
I use roofs, sometimes pads (mostly for drive ways).

[Anonymous]

Could anybody explain to me what the "road" catagory under the visibility settings in Revit is for?

Thank you.

[rosskirby]

You might be able to model the road as a mass, and then build a wall type with the makeup of your road, and then choose "wall by face". Just and idea.

[Anonymous]

That is how you might model a road. The OP was asking what the "road"
category is used for. There are no objects which can be assigned to the
road category. It is somewhat of an orphan category.

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Jeff Hanson
SME (Subject Matter Expert)
Autodesk - BIM UX
Manchester, NH


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You might be able to model the road as a mass, and then build a wall type
with the makeup of your road, and then choose "wall by face". Just and
idea.

[Anonymous]

i'm surprised at the responses to this question..

it's a good thing to know that revit is not
intended to build roads- it's intended to build
buildings..

but since roads do sometimes lead up to buildings-
revit does provide a connection to road building
programs like AutoCAD Civil- via the ADSK
file format..

so what you want to do is export the revit site plan
to a program made for actually building roads..

however- with 64 bit- it's conceivable that revit will
one day do anything you can imagine.. but that
of course depends on whether or not autodesk
can maintain a friendship with everyone..

[Anonymous]

however- with 64 bit- it's conceivable that revit will one day do anything you can imagine.....................this is highly unlikely.

If Revit could do everything you would not need to buy additional Autodesk tools....despite what you might think of Autodesk you have to admit they are very good at taking your money and giving very little in return.

[Anonymous]

bern- you said:

"they are very good at taking your money"

that's just marketing people and their lawyers..
look at the havoc those people caused microsoft
in the past..

you have to have them but they are hard to control..

[Anonymous]

It is true: revit sucks in making roads. What i do is: use a pad (several pads for complex shapes) with slope arrow to cut the terrain aproximatelly, a little bit under the final surface, and then use a floor, shaped by "modify sub elements" tool (that is very versatile) to get the real appearance of the road. Of course the cut datum is aproximated as well. By the way: site designer add in is also very poor, and it gives no cut data either. Now if you want to make the road with a complex profile section, you can use that floor edge to make a sweep.

[Anonymous]

I will try that. 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I'm new to Revit about a year now. This how I created a road with very good results.

I have an uneven site and wanted to create a smooth road dropping into the house site.

I created a separate toposurface  for the road only. This way you can control the road contour points without changing.

the main site plans. I then place topo points directly to the side of the road points. Make sure your topo points are in line with 

your road topo points or thing start look wacky. once the topo points for the road are determined set the points to the side lower 

I went 3'-0" lower. This will give you a nice shoulder to your road and will blend into the existing site nicely. I did mention that

I moved road topo off to one side to work on it. In my case I moved it a 1000' to the right. Once the road topo is complete use the

Subregion tool to create the road surface over the new road this will allow you to change the road surface material in my case

to gravel. now move the road back in its correct location. Hope this helps and is what your looking for. new guy's rule

[sascari]

@Anonymous How did this work with curved roads? I can see the points working on straight lines, but what do you do when you get an arc? 

[constantin.stroescu]

not exactly an answer to your question , but:

I 'll show here how I do make roads in my architectural drawings without using Site Design addin.

I use Railings . And that , because railing can follow a Toposurface.

Here is a screencast which I made a few days ago...

It is a single layer road ,but , if I'll use several railings (profiles) one on top of the other , it could be multilayaer

[Anonymous]

I will check into this.