From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Topography settings and graphics

Topography settings and graphics

- [Instructor] In this video, I want to talk about the Site Settings Dialog, you're no doubt aware that we have a toposurface element in Revit and can use it like I have here, to create these land masses that sit underneath your building model, but you may not be aware that you actually have quite a bit of control over how these elements display within your model. And you do that in the Site Settings Dialog. So I'm going to go to the Massing and Site Tab here, and of course, this is where you find all the toposurface commands, you can create them, you can split them, modify them, merge them, but this is also where, on the Model Site Panel, you'll find this small little icon, and that's how you access the Site Settings Dialog. So it's a little bit difficult to find, but when you click that, that will display the settings that are being used to display things in your model. Now at the top of the dialog, we have our contour…

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