First of all: Dynamo 1.3 is out! Information found here: http://dynamobim.org/dynamo-1-3-release/
So to the subject of the day: Revit and topographical volumes is no good, right? Well, I can tend to agree on that point..
Sure Revit does calculate net fill/cut etc etc, sure you have possibilities in Site Designer and other addins and sure – you really should use Civil 3D.. Right tool for the right job and so on.
If you however are as me you will need from time to time to accomodate these things in Revit.
A typical workflow we find ourselves in as a structural engineer on small to medium sized projects is that the contractor or our customer wants us to produce an excavation plan something along the lines of this:
Now this is quite often manual labour and we really want to accomodate this in a much better manner.
I’ve spent some time investegating the possibilities in Dynamo regarding creating solids of these volumes. What we want is a more efficient way to produce the drawings and in…
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