Revit: Landscape Architecture BIM Techniques

Learn how to turn Revit into a useful tool for landscape architecture.

Introduction

• Potential of custom plants, data, hardscape, and topology
• Using the exercise files
• Enhanced docs with Revit add-ons for landscape design

1. Delivered Softscape (Planting)

• Review planting
• Understand planting behaviour
• Use plant data
• Create topography
• Measure cut and fill
• Create topography from a DWG file
• Surfaces vs. subregions
• Floors as planting beds
• Using surface patterns

2. Customized Softscape (Planting)

• Preview the plant family to be created
• Create a custom plant family
• Add sub-categories for linework
• Checking a plant family in a project
• Create symbolic lines from a DWG file
• Create a plant symbol for existing plants
• Create one plant symbol used for multiple types
• Review a finished plant family
• Add plant data to a project
• Assign data to project plants
• Manage plant display
• Track plant condition
• Manage plant display
• Review a non-profit source of data
• Manage plant data in Excel (BIMrx)

3. Customized Hardscape

• Create a custom material
• Create water as a material
• Modify sloped floors
• Create an edge condition
• Create a pergola
• Create a trellis by modeling or as a material

4. Custom Documentation/Presentation

• Access free planting/landscape families (BIMobject)
• Review a schedule
• Schedules with added data and formula
• Schedules with URL links
• Make and use a custom pattern
• Swap delivered plants and view
• Swap 2D custom plants for delivered 3D plants
• Developing content
• Swap custom 2D plants for Enscape Assets
• Paint plants and change seasons
• Create a landscape project template

Conclusion

• Next steps