I tried to make the title as descriptive as possible and please bear with me as I am far from a master of Revit. I did try searching online for about 5 hours the other evening and came up empty handed, but did find some interesting discussions about underground (cave) homes. Anyway, I cannot figure out how to have a toposurface to show the grade line in an elevation at the exterior wall line. If I run the elevation cut line right at the exterior wall, it cuts off other objects like the roof overhangs, decks, building pop outs, etc. If I leave it back outside of those objects, many times in my office we have steep and varied contours that can slope up towards the view and then you end up seeing the underside of the toposurface itself blocking the elevation. I guess I am looking for a vertical elevation cut change like the horizontal options to step the elevations / sections in and out. I am leaning toward some sort of mass element being created out of the toposurface which can then be cut off in the elevation views at the wall edges as needed, but I am guessing this would lead to multiple masses overlapping and needing to hide them in the different views. I was entertaining the idea of layering vertically multiple elevation cuts if that is even possible. Currently I will adjust the elevation cut up to the edge of the wall line and trace it as much as possible with a masking region, but the 2 problems I see with this is its not live and in 3d which can lead to incorrect information later if it is failed to be adjusted and the other is its not 100% accurate as the edge of the topo surface cannot be picked to be traced. If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate it.
Thank you.
I like your Mass idea. Export the Toposurface to DWG and then Insert it into an In-Place Mass Session. Sounds ideal. Why did you rule it out?
ToanDN I was thinking this might be a way to go, I have not tried it yet though to see how it works. I was hoping for a nice here is how to do it and not have the feeling of extra steps and things could get lost. I will try it out and let you know my thoughts. Thank you.
barthbradley, I haven't tried this idea, but my concern is the thought that once I create the mass, it wouldn't update if the contours are changed, for final grading, plans revisions, etc. That might be something I just don't know how to make work correctly. As I mentioned also, I was hoping someone would have the " Check this box" type of thing. I will explore the options everyone suggests and try them out over hte new few days when I have time and report back.
Thanks for the input.
If the Toposurface changes, just edit mass and replace the DWG with a new export to DWG of changed Toposurface. Bada Bing.
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