Site modeling

[HaloJH]

Hi all,

I have been using Revit for a while, but it is not performing good enough to get it done easily. I mean something hard like building and road along mountain. Revit typography result looks really flat and unrealistic. Also I found that most of the road build take a central line as reference and extrude the road evenly. But that's not what happen in the real world. If the road is build with two line then I can remain the boundary of all building very much the same. 

So I'm actually looking for a substitute to build a high quality site model. Please give me some suggestion.

Basically, I found Infraworks and Civil3D should be work, but I am not sure which one is more suitable for my case. It just need to be close to the reality (lets say I have a dwg map) and easily workout with no details required.

[RDAOU]

@HaloJH 

There are tones of tutorial on how to model site and hardscape elements that follow topography using purely Revit as well as using dynamo..you tried all and nothing worked for you? 

You can check this AU class which is one of the oldies https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Make-Hardscape-Follow-Site-Topography-and-Site-To...

[barthbradley]

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@HaloJH wrote:

Revit typography result looks really flat and unrealistic.

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Sounds like a Toposurface that needs more points. You can edit the Toposurface and place more points.  If you place zero-elevation points RELATIVE TO SURFACE the point will use the elevation of the triangulated surface at the placement location and each new point will add a triangulated surface.  

Or do you mean "flat and unrealistic"  like the way topography appears from an airplane window? 

[syman2000]

You can look into Arch Intelligence landscape plugin for Revit.

https://archintelligence.com/

[RDAOU]

@HaloJH 

Another option would be Foreground from parallax

 FOREground for Revit – Parallax Team