Revit Architecture and utilities?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

In my workplace I have been asked to model existing utilities at street intersections utilizing Revit Architecture. These street intersections are very congested with existing utilities that will need to be relocated for road improvements. The client on this project has requested we use Revit Architecture to accomplish this. They would like to view these existing utilities in 3d with the correct materials, sizes and inverts assigned to them.

Can this be done with Revit Architecture? I attached a screen shot of one of the intersections.

Thanks

Jake

[Alfredo_Medina]

Can it be done in Revit Architecture? yes. Is that the best choice? No. But if you have no choice, start creating all these elements as families. I understand that this work is done with Civil 3D, which probably has most of these elements already created.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for replying.

Would Revit MEP be a better choice of software to use to accomplish this? They are insistent that it be done in Revit. I had Revit Arhitecture installed but failed to see where the utility menus were located. The client wants to take my Revit utility model and use it when designing proposed buildings.

Jake

[Alfredo_Medina]

There is no Utilities menu in Revit Architecture. There is Massing and Site, but the capabilities of Revit about site work are very limited. I am not an expert on Revit MEP, but as far as I know it deals with all the installations inside of a building, not with the civil work.

I recommend you to do a search on add-ons for Revit that have been developed recently for site work. That will for sure enhance Revit's abilities to do this type of work.

One of those add-ons is described in this article about Siteworks for Revit, written by Aaron Maller for the Augi AEC Edge Magazine:
http://www.augi.com/images/uploads/aec_edge/AAE2010Fal-hr.pdf"

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For further discussion, please refer to this thread in Revitforum.org:

http://revitforum.org/showthread.php?273-Siteworks-for-Revit&highlight=siteworks

[Anonymous]

Oh cool. Thanks for the links.