Bring Back Topo Surfaces

[markfRECZU]

The new Topo Solids are inaccurate, inefficient, and produce very poor graphics. Editing a single point on a 15 acre site takes 10-15 seconds and you can't see the resulting change in topography until exiting the edit mode. The triangulation between points creates big errors, especially at the toes and crests of slopes. Adding new points to correct errors tends to create other errors elsewhere. The graphics create rough, jagged edges which can't be presented to clients and introduce errors in the contours of the surface. Topo solids also greatly increase 3D view regeneration time when dealing with large sites with thousands of points.

Please bring back topo surfaces (maybe as an "add-in" patch?) and let users decide which element, topo solids or topo surfaces, to use in their models.

[wr.marshall]

Agree

I'm using Toposurfaces (Doing Topo in Revit 2022 and linking to a Revit 2024 Model) on a project at the moment as I find the layering system lacking for requirements. The slope of the side is going up and slope of a layer below is going down. They have indicated height at various points for each which not uniform. Easier to control using topo surfaces

On side note regarding the above mention, see this idea: More control of Levels of SEVERAL layers in topography - Autodesk Community

[mhiserZFHXS]

I'd rather they just address the issues in toposolids.

It would be nice if they had both features available for a version or two, as there are some things that make toposolids unuseable for some, but I don't use those features so I'm fine with toposolids.

[ipselute]

I believe both topo surfaces and topo solids are necessary, for their own reasons. First, I would love the topo surfaces to be like the TIN Surfaces in Civil3d, very precise, very fast and very easy to edit. Ideally, we should have/create a TIN surface for the existing topography, and another TIN surface for the proposed landscaping, roads, sidewalks, etc

Finally, when all proposed landscaping is completed, we should be able to create Toposolids between the 2 surfaces (existing+proposed) and Revit should automatically calculate one toposolid for excavation and another toposolid for backfill. 

[dingohot]

I agree.
Autodesk should give us both toposolid and topomesh like they did with staircase, adding new features and keeping the old sketch feature.
If they can't provide both, I'd rather have the old topomesh 100x better.