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Generating a toposurface

Generating a toposurface - Revit Tutorial

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Generating a toposurface

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- [Instructor] When you're working in Revit Architecture, quite often you're just working in space. And as you can see, you've got a little building like you've got on the screen at the moment in the floor plan level zero. And what we need to think about is the actual outside world, or the topography, the ground, the earth around our particular Revit project. So for that reason, we've got a new Revit project to use. It's Revit project underscore topo, T-O-P-O, dot RVT. And as usual, you can download it from the website and use it as your exercise file to follow along with this video. Now, a lot of the topography and what I call civil engineering grounds type elements are done in the site floor plan. So you'll notice in the project browser, there's the site floor plan. Double click on it, and it'll open up like so. Now you'll notice that there's some setting out coordinates here. You can ignore those, and you can see that we're looking down on the building, and you can see the roof…

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