How to Convert and Upgrade to Toposolids

With the advent of Toposolids, one of the first big questions that I have been working hard to fully understand and anticipate is what exactly happens if you have an ongoing project that you want to upgrade to Revit 2024?

I will say the answer will vary a bit depending on what sort of elements you typically use to model a site/landscape. But let’s dive in and take a look…

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Top Three (Toposolid) Features in Revit 2024

Revit 2024 has just been released, and with it a long list of new features. I am excited to see that there is finally a new site and landscape feature among the improvements.

So I am back to dust off the blog and to fill you all in on this new Revit element: Toposolid.

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BIM After Dark – Revit + Landscape Architecture

Tomorrow, Thursday, November 14 at 12:30pm ET/ 9:30am PT, I will be on BIM After Dark with Jeff Pinheiro (@TheRevitKid). We will be talking Revit and landscape architecture, so there will be some tips and tricks, some FOREground, and looking at our latest Parallax landscape effort that is in the works, the Planting Content Library.

Video below will be live tomorrow, and also available to watch later.

Modeling Walls with Floors

There are several downsides to modeling walls in a more complex landscape, including:

  • Sloped walls can only be created via profile editing, which is a fairly imprecise method
    • Landscape framework of design and layout tend to want to control where these happen in plan, so doing this in profile is often counter-intuitive
  • If you have sloped walls that also curve, profile editing isn’t even an option

A solution that I commonly use for both of these issues is to use Floors.

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